Jessica Hecht

Recent appearances on Broadway include Manhattan Theatre Club’s Eureka Day, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and Summer 1976, which also earned her a Tony Award nomination. She has appeared on Broadway in productions of The Price opposite Mark Ruffalo, Fiddler on the Roof opposite Danny Burstein, The Assembled Parties opposite Judith Light, Harvey opposite Jim Parsons, After the Fall opposite Carla Gugino, The Last Night of Ballyhoo opposite Paul Rudd, Brighton Beach Memoirs opposite Laurie Metcalf, Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington, and A View from the Bridge opposite Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in A Mother, a play which she co-conceived for Baryshnikov Arts, King Lear opposite John Lithgow and Annette Bening, Stage Kiss opposite Sandra Oh, Three Sisters opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE ORCHARD opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov, LETTERS FROM MAX at Signature Theatre, and ADMISSIONS at Lincoln Center Theater, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination and an Obie Award.

Her notable television appearances include her Emmy nominated performance in the Netflix series “Special” and her roles on “Tokyo Vice,” “Super Pumped,” “The Sinner,” “The Loudest Voice,” “Dickinson,” “The Boys,” and “Succession.” She is also recognizable to television audiences as Susan Bunchon the iconic television series “Friends” and Gretchen Schwartz on “Breaking Bad.” She will next be seen opposite Kevin Kline in the new series “American Classic.”

Her film performances include Eleanor the Great, which debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival as well as A+, Anesthesia, J. Edgar, The Grey Zone, The Sitter, My Soul to Take, Dan in Real Life, Sideways, The Atlantic City Story, The Sunlit Night, and The Home.