Jemima Kirke

Acting

Jemima Kirke

Born 1985-04-26 · London, England

Jemima Jo Kirke (born 26 April 1985) is a British-born American artist and actress best known for her role as Jessa Johansson on the television series Girls. She made her feature-length debut in the independent film Tiny Furniture, as a favour for her childhood friend Lena Dunham, although her actual film debut was in the indie short film Smile for the Camera.

Acting credits

The Little Hours poster
5.9

Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

The Little Hours

2017

Chunks poster
2.0

An anthology film of six unique comedy shorts threaded together with your host, faded Hollywood starlet Ruby, and taking inspiration from the glamourous by-gone era of late nite public access weirdness. With live action shorts featuring originals from Podcast About List, Sandy Honig, Nate Fisher & Will Senett, and two animated segments from Episode 1 & Jim Soper, and Nick Mullen & Saul Crinier.

Chunks

2026

Sylvie's Love poster
6.2

When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

Sylvie's Love

2020

Untogether poster
5.4

Once considered a teen prodigy, a recovering addict sobers up and tries to get her writing career back on track. She begins a relationship with a rising author known for his wartime memoirs.

Untogether

2019

No artwork available
9.0

Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

Picasso Baby

2013

Catharsis poster
NR

A dancer savant with serious anger issues is about to sabotage his life when a strange psychotherapist brings him to face the shadows of his subconscious mind.

Catharsis

2024

Wild Honey Pie! poster
3.7

A wanna-be author feels pressured to move beyond her meandering writing career and get a more stable job. She decides to organize a Shakespeare festival, a plan that could have tricky ramifications for her marriage.

Wild Honey Pie!

2018

Tiny Furniture poster
5.6

After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.

Tiny Furniture

2010

A Goodbye to Girls poster
NR

A featurette celebrating six seasons of "Girls."

A Goodbye to Girls

2017

Ava's Possessions poster
5.8

Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she must attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group to figure out what happened. Ava's life was hijacked by a demon, now it's time to get it back.

Ava's Possessions

2015

All These Small Moments poster
6.5

A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.

All These Small Moments

2019

You Should Feel Better poster
NR

A 500 million year-old extraterrestrial named Claywoman and her colleagues discuss media strategy.

You Should Feel Better

Fame and Other Four Letter Words poster
NR

In a world where Instagram is dead and scientists are hot, one influencer must face her biggest fear: being irrelevant.

Fame and Other Four Letter Words

2025

Smile for the Camera poster
NR

Double exposures produced by an antique camera lead two New York photography students on a bizarre and unnerving journey to a backwater town, where a cult of mysterious 'boxheads' entrap victims whose smiling photographs appear on the boxes that hide their own faces.

Smile for the Camera

2005

Behind the camera