Jessica Chastain
Date of birth: 1977-03-24
Place of birth: Southern California, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 제시카 채스테인, Jessica Michelle Chastain, 劳模姐, ג'סיקה מישל צ'סטיין
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.
Movie Credits
Dark Shadows
2005-07-01
The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB Te
The Sands Between
2021-09-25
A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes t
The Tree of Life
2011-05-17
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the e
I Am Not Alone
Struggling with unbearable migraines, the mother of a little girl thinks she is hallucinating, becau
Jolene
2010-10-29
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
Stolen
2009-10-10
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similari
Take Shelter
2011-09-30
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter
The Debt
2010-09-30
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surg
The Help
2011-08-09
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012-06-06
Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central P
Lawless
2012-08-29
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establish
Texas Killing Fields
2011-10-14
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigat
Wilde Salomé
2013-12-20
Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned and most con
Dreams
2025-07-10
Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international recognition and a life in the U
Zero Dark Thirty
2012-12-19
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the Septembe
Coriolanus
2011-02-14
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protect
Mama
2013-01-17
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little
Armageddon Time
2022-10-28
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to t
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014-05-14
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-rele
Interstellar
2014-11-05
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the li
Crimson Peak
2015-10-13
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood frie
Seduced and Abandoned
2013-05-20
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us
Miss Julie
2014-09-07
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish
The Color of Time
2012-11-16
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Memory
2023-12-22
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meet
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013-06-19
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condole
Salomé
2013-08-10
One of Al Pacino's directory experiments, the stage elements of the film were filmed over 5 days in
A Most Violent Year
2014-12-31
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent yea
The Westerner
2010-01-01
About a young boy who runs away from home, trying to find his way to a place he once visited with hi
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014-10-10
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they on
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014-10-10
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once
The Zookeeper's Wife
2017-03-24
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014-11-05
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.
The Martian
2015-09-30
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and lef
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016-04-06
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow Whi
Plus One
Rachel ends a relationship and realizes that all of her female friends have gotten married. Except f
Lear Rex
An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their aff
Unity
2015-08-12
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of th
Spheres
2018-01-17
An immersive journey through the cosmos, its origins and its songs.
Miss Sloane
2016-11-25
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control leg
Half the Picture
2018-01-23
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their ar
Molly's Game
2017-12-07
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a targe
Woman Walks Ahead
2018-06-28
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys wes
I Am Jane Doe
2017-02-10
Chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school
Dark Phoenix
2019-06-05
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to sp
Seducing Ingrid Bergman
An examination of the relationship between film star Ingrid Bergman and wartime photographer Robert
Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
2011-10-11
A documentary on Terrence Malick and the making of his film "The Tree of Life."
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
The film follows two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas
It Chapter Two
2019-09-04
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Lo
The 355
2022-01-05
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agenc
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015-03-31
Cast and crew of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" discuss project origins, the film's imagery, amb
Ava
2020-07-02
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
The Good Nurse
2022-10-19
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risk
This Changes Everything
2019-06-28
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-kn
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016-06-07
A long form documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's film, "The Martian," featuring interviews wi
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021-09-17
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humb
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
2019-01-14
A newly edited, feature-length documentary with cast and crew interviews and extensive behind the sc
Very Ralph
2019-11-12
The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
2016-02-09
A behind the scenes look at the colors and themes of Crimson Peak.
I Remember Crimson Peak
2016-02-09
Four segments that breakdown the filmmaking process of Crimson Peak.
Hand Tailored Gothic
2016-02-09
A look at the costume design for Crimson Peak.
Losing Clementine
Based on the acclaimed novel by Ashley Ream centering on a brilliant, magnetic and tortured artist w
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019-12-10
This documentary focuses on the actors and their journey over two summers to create the remake to th
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020-06-19
What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a fe
Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour
2016-12-09
Concert special featuring the iconic superstar as she performs in packed arenas around the globe. Fe
Mothers' Instinct
2024-01-11
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a
The Forgiven
2022-07-01
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the li
Assassination
A new take on the JFK conspiracy, centering around Dorothy Kilgallen, one of the most famous voices
Family Feud
2018-01-04
Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infi
Other Mommy
2026-10-09
A young girl as her family, and their home, are haunted by a sinister entity that is determined to t
Heartland
A former country star, Misty Jones, comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her m
Deck the Y'alls
A New York baker falls for a younger Southern gentleman, and heads to Charleston, South Carolina to
My Darling California
Set in LA, the film will chart how a single crime weaves together the lives of a TV host, his restle
The 99th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
2025-11-27
The 99th annual Macy's Day Parade will feature performers such as Cynthia Erivo, Lainey Wilson and t
The Division
In the near future, a pandemic virus is spread via paper money on Black Friday, decimating New York.