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Jessica Chastain

Jessica Chastain

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.

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Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye

2024

Mothers' Instinct

2024

as Alice

Memory

2023

as Sylvia

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

2023

as Self

George & Tammy

2022

as Tammy Wynette

Armageddon Time

2022

as Maryanne Trump

The Good Nurse

2022

as Amy Loughren

The Forgiven

2022

as Jo Henninger

Reframed: Marilyn Monroe

2022

as Narrator (voice)

The 355

2022

as Mason 'Mace' Brown

The Sands Between

2021

as Woman

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

2021

as Tammy Faye Bakker

Scenes from a Marriage

2021

as Mira Phillips

Ava

2020

as Ava

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

2020

as Self

The Summers of It – Chapter Two: It Ends

2019

as Self

Very Ralph

2019

as Self

It Chapter Two

2019

as Beverly Marsh

This Changes Everything

2019

as Self

Dark Phoenix

2019

as Vuk

The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'

2019

as Self

Half the Picture

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Spheres

2018

as Narrator (Voice)

Molly's Game

2017

as Molly Bloom

Woman Walks Ahead

2017

as Catherine Weldon

The Zookeeper's Wife

2017

as Antonina Żabińska

I Am Jane Doe

2017

as Narrator (voice)

Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour

2016

as Self - Unapologetic Bitch

Miss Sloane

2016

as Madeline Elizabeth Sloane

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

2016

as Self

The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016

as Sara

The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak

2016

as Self

I Remember Crimson Peak

2016

as Herself

Hand Tailored Gothic

2016

as Self

Crimson Peak

2015

as Lady Lucille Sharpe

The Martian

2015

as Melissa Lewis

Unity

2015

as Narrator (voice)

ARES: live

2015

as Melissa Lewis

Inside 'Interstellar'

2015

as Self / Murph

A Most Violent Year

2014

as Anna Morales

Interstellar

2014

as Murph

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

2014

as Self

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

2014

as Eleanor Rigby

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

2014

as Eleanor Rigby

Miss Julie

2014

as Miss Julie

Scripted Content

2014

as Herself

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

2014

as Eleanor Rigby

Wilde Salomé

2013

as Self / Salome

Salomé

2013

as Salomé

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013

as Narrator (voice)

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

as Self

Mama

2013

as Annabel

Zero Dark Thirty

2012

as Maya

The Color of Time

2012

as Mrs. Williams

Lawless

2012

as Maggie Beauford

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012

as Gia (voice)

Touch of Evil

2011

as The Fire Starter

Texas Killing Fields

2011

as Pam Stall

Exploring 'The Tree of Life'

2011

as Self

Take Shelter

2011

as Samantha LaForche

The Help

2011

as Celia Foote

The Tree of Life

2011

as Mrs. O'Brien

Coriolanus

2011

as Virgilia

Jolene

2010

as Jolene

The Debt

2010

as Young Rachel Singer

The Westerner

2010

as Daniel's Mother

Stolen

2009

as Sally Ann

Journeyman

2007

as Tanna Bloom

Blackbeard

2006

as Charlotte Ormand

Dark Shadows

2005

as Carolyn Stoddard

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005

as Sigrun Borg

Veronica Mars

2004

as Sarah Williams

ER

1994

as Dahlia Taslitz

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Mary Debenham

The Oscars

1953

as Self

I Am Not Alone

Dreams

Plus One

as Rachel

Lear Rex

as Goneril

Seducing Ingrid Bergman

as Ingrid Bergman

Untitled Holiday Comedy Project

Losing Clementine

as Clementine

Assassination

as Dorothy Kilgallen

The Savant

as The Savant