Jessica Chastain

Biography

Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and film producer. Known for her roles in films with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012. Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Chastain developed an interest in acting from an early age. In 1998, she made her professional stage debut as Shakespeare's Juliet. After studying acting at the Juilliard School, she was signed to a talent holding deal with the television producer John Wells. She was a recurring guest star in several television series, including Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She also took on roles in the stage productions of Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard in 2004 and Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome in 2006. Chastain made her film debut in the drama Jolene (2008), and gained wide recognition for her starring roles in the dramas Take Shelter (2011) and The Tree of Life (2011). Her performance as an aspiring socialite in The Help (2011) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2012, she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a CIA analyst in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty. Chastain made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Heiress in the same year. Her highest-grossing releases came with the science fiction films Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015), and the horror film It Chapter Two (2019), and she continued to receive critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Most Violent Year (2014), Miss Sloane (2016), Molly's Game (2017) and The Good Nurse (2022). For her portrayal of Tammy Faye in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), which she also produced, Chastain won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In television, Chastain starred in drama miniseries Scenes from a Marriage (2021) and George & Tammy (2022). For the latter, she won a SAG Award. Her performance also garnered her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Chastain is the founder of the production company Freckle Films, which was created to promote diversity in film. She is vocal about mental health issues, as well as gender and racial equality. She is married to fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, with whom she has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Chastain, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Carolyn Stoddard

Dark Shadows

Woman

The Sands Between

Mrs. O'Brien

The Tree of Life

I Am Not Alone

Jolene

Jolene

Sally Ann

Stolen Lives

Samantha LaForche

Take Shelter

Young Rachel Singer

The Debt

Celia Foote

The Help

Gia (voice)

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Maggie Beauford

Lawless

Pam Stall

Texas Killing Fields

Self / Salome

Wilde Salomé

Jennifer McCarthy

Dreams

Maya

Zero Dark Thirty

Virgilia

Coriolanus

Annabel

Mama

Maryanne Trump

Armageddon Time

Eleanor Rigby

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Murph

Interstellar

Lady Lucille Sharpe

Crimson Peak

Self

Seduced and Abandoned

Miss Julie

Miss Julie

Mrs. Williams

The Color of Time

Sylvia

Memory

Self - Letter Reader

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

Salomé

Salomé

Anna Morales

A Most Violent Year

Daniel's Mother

The Westerner

Eleanor Rigby

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

Eleanor Rigby

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

Antonina Żabińska

The Zookeeper's Wife

Self

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

Melissa Lewis

The Martian

Sara

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Rachel

Plus One

Goneril

Lear Rex

Narrator (voice)

Unity

Narrator (Voice)

Spheres

Madeline Elizabeth Sloane

Miss Sloane

Self (archive footage)

Half the Picture

Catherine Weldon

Woman Walks Ahead

Molly Bloom

Molly's Game

Narrator (voice)

I Am Jane Doe

Vuk

Dark Phoenix

Ingrid Bergman

Seducing Ingrid Bergman

Self

Exploring 'The Tree of Life'

Untitled Holiday Comedy Project

Beverly Marsh

It Chapter Two

Mason 'Mace' Brown

The 355

Self / Murph

Inside 'Interstellar'

Ava

Ava

Amy Loughren

The Good Nurse

Self

This Changes Everything

Self

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

Tammy Faye Bakker

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Self

The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'

Self

Very Ralph

Self

The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak

Self

Hand Tailored Gothic

Herself

I Remember Crimson Peak

Clementine

Losing Clementine

Self

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends

Self

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

Self - Unapologetic Bitch

Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour

Alice

Mothers' Instinct

Jo Henninger

The Forgiven

Dorothy Kilgallen

Assassination

Presidents' interviewer

Family Feud

Ursula / Other Mommy

Other Mommy

Misty Jones

Heartland

Rachel Stein

Deck the Y'alls

Sharon Normandie

My Darling California

Self

The 99th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Division