Jessica Chastain 1977 48
Jessica Chastain 1977 48
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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2026 Incidents Around the House as Ursula / Other Mommy
2025 Dreams as Jennifer McCarthy Executive Producer
2025 Assassination as Dorothy Kilgallen
2025 Lear Rex as Goneril
2025 The Maid of Orleans Producer
2025 Plus One as Rachel
2025 Seducing Ingrid Bergman as Ingrid Bergman Producer
2025 The Honeymoon Producer
2025 I Am Not Alone Producer
2025 Losing Clementine as Clementine
2025 Painkiller Jane Producer
2025 Untitled Holiday Comedy Project Producer, Story
2024 Mothers' Instinct as Alice Producer
2023 Memory as Sylvia
2022 Armageddon Time as Maryanne Trump
2022 The Good Nurse as Amy Loughren
2022 The Forgiven as Jo Henninger
2022 The 355 as Mason 'Mace' Brown Producer
2021 The Sands Between as Woman
2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker Producer
2020 Ava as Ava Producer
2020 Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy as Self
2019 The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends as Self
2019 Very Ralph as Self
2019 It Chapter Two as Beverly Marsh
2019 This Changes Everything as Self
2019 Dark Phoenix as Vuk
2019 The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak' as Self
2018 Woman Walks Ahead as Catherine Weldon
2018 Half the Picture as Self (archive footage)
2018 Spheres as Narrator (Voice)
2018 Family Feud as Presidents' interviewer
2017 Molly's Game as Molly Bloom
2017 The Zookeeper's Wife as Antonina Żabińska Executive Producer
2017 I Am Jane Doe as Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2016 Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour as Self - Unapologetic Bitch
2016 Miss Sloane as Madeline Elizabeth Sloane
2016 The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' as Self
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War as Sara
2016 Hand Tailored Gothic as Self
2016 The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak as Self
2016 I Remember Crimson Peak as Herself
2015 Crimson Peak as Lady Lucille Sharpe
2015 The Martian as Melissa Lewis
2015 Unity as Narrator (voice)
2015 Inside 'Interstellar' as Self / Murph
2014 A Most Violent Year as Anna Morales
2014 Interstellar as Murph
2014 Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey as Self
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him as Eleanor Rigby Producer
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her as Eleanor Rigby Producer
2014 Miss Julie as Miss Julie
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Eleanor Rigby Producer
2013 Wilde Salomé as Self / Salome
2013 Salomé as Salomé
2013 Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
2013 Seduced and Abandoned as Self
2013 Mama as Annabel
2012 Zero Dark Thirty as Maya
2012 The Color of Time as Mrs. Williams
2012 Lawless as Maggie Beauford
2012 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted as Gia (voice)
2011 Touch of Evil as The Fire Starter
2011 Texas Killing Fields as Pam Stall
2011 Exploring 'The Tree of Life' as Self
2011 Take Shelter as Samantha LaForche
2011 The Help as Celia Foote
2011 The Tree of Life as Mrs. O'Brien
2011 Coriolanus as Virgilia
2010 Jolene as Jolene
2010 The Debt as Young Rachel Singer
2010 The Westerner as Daniel's Mother Producer
2009 Stolen as Sally Ann
2005 Dark Shadows as Carolyn Stoddard