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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Chastain, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Southern California, California, USA, 1977-03-24

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2005	Dark Shadows	Carolyn Stoddard	83
2	2009	Stolen	Sally Ann	59
3	2010	The Westerner	Daniel's Mother	50
4	2010	The Debt	Young Rachel Singer	66
5	2010	Jolene	Jolene	63
6	2011	Coriolanus	Virgilia	58
7	2011	The Tree of Life	Mrs. O'Brien	67
8	2011	Texas Killing Fields	Pam Stall	58
9	2012	Lawless	Maggie Beauford	71
10	2012	The Color of Time	Mrs. Williams	40
11	2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya	70
12	2013	Seduced and Abandoned	Self	62
13	2013	Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy	Narrator (voice)	66
14	2013	Salomé	Salomé	63
15	2014	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them	Eleanor Rigby	62
16	2014	Miss Julie	Miss Julie	56
17	2014	Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey	Self	77
18	2015	Crimson Peak	Lady Lucille Sharpe	67
19	2021	The Sands Between	Woman	65
20		I Am Not Alone		0
21	2011	The Help	Celia Foote	82
22	2011	Take Shelter	Samantha LaForche	70
23	2012	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Gia (voice)	66
24	2013	Mama	Annabel	63
25	2013	Wilde Salomé	Self / Salome	62
26	2014	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her	Eleanor Rigby	67
27	2014	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him	Eleanor Rigby	67
28	2014	Interstellar	Murph	85
29	2014	A Most Violent Year	Anna Morales	66
30	2015	The Martian	Melissa Lewis	77
31	2016	The Huntsman: Winter's War	Sara	63
32	2017	The Zookeeper's Wife	Antonina Żabińska	73
33	2022	Armageddon Time	Maryanne Trump	65
34	2023	Memory	Sylvia	71
35	2025	Dreams	Jennifer McCarthy	0
36		Plus One	Rachel	0
37		Lear Rex	Goneril	0
38	2010	Agatha Christie's Poirot：Murder on the Orient Express	玛丽·德本汉	0
39	2011	Exploring 'The Tree of Life'	Self	65
40	2011	Touch of Evil	The Fire Starter	70
41	2015	Inside 'Interstellar'	Self / Murph	69
42	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
43	2016	The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak	Self	83
44	2016	Hand Tailored Gothic	Self	0
45	2016	I Remember Crimson Peak	Herself	100
46	2016	The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'	Self	76
47	2016	Miss Sloane	Madeline Elizabeth Sloane	74
48	2016	Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour	Self - Unapologetic Bitch	73
49	2017	I Am Jane Doe	Narrator (voice)	59
50	2017	Molly's Game	Molly Bloom	71
51	2018	Family Feud	Presidents' interviewer	25
52	2018	Spheres	Narrator (Voice)	0
53	2018	Half the Picture	Self (archive footage)	66
54	2018	Woman Walks Ahead	Catherine Weldon	67
55	2019	Dark Phoenix	Vuk	60
56		Seducing Ingrid Bergman	Ingrid Bergman	0
57		Untitled Holiday Comedy Project		0
58	2019	The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'	Self	0
59	2019	This Changes Everything	Self	62
60	2019	It Chapter Two	Beverly Marsh	68
61	2019	Very Ralph	Self	63
62	2019	The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends	Self	71
63	2020	Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy	Self	0
64	2020	Ava	Ava	58
65	2021	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Tammy Faye Bakker	65
66	2022	The 355	Mason 'Mace' Brown	60
67	2022	The Good Nurse	Amy Loughren	69
68		Losing Clementine	Clementine	0
69	2022	The Forgiven	Jo Henninger	57
70	2024	Mothers' Instinct	Alice	69
71		Assassination	Dorothy Kilgallen	0
72	2026	Incidents Around the House	Ursula / Other Mommy	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
3	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
4	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mary Debenham	82
5	1994	ER	Dahlia Taslitz	78
6	2004	Veronica Mars	Sarah Williams	78
7	2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Sigrun Borg	81
8		The Savant	The Savant	0
9	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
10	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
11	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
12	1997	Leute heute	Self	48
13	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
14	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
15	2006	Blackbeard	Charlotte Ormand	52
16	2006	El hormiguero	Self	48
17	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
18	2007	Journeyman	Tanna Bloom	75
19	2008	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Self	75
20	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
21	2010	Conan	Self	71
22	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
23	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
24	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
25	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
26	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
27	2015	ARES: live	Melissa Lewis	43
28	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
29	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
30	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		64
31	2016	Chelsea	Self	51
32	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
33	2021	Scenes from a Marriage	Mira Phillips	72
34	2022	Reframed: Marilyn Monroe	Narrator (voice)	78
35	2022	George & Tammy	Tammy Wynette	71
36	2023	Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled	Self	77
37	2024	Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye		100
38		The Dealer		0

Jessica Chastain

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