Jessica Chastain
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 24, 1977 (age 49)
- Place of birth
- Southern California, California, USA
- Credits
- 118
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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Known for
Filmography
Heartland
2026Movie
Misty Jones
Other Mommy
2026Movie
Ursula / Other Mommy
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
The 99th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
2025Movie
Self
Family Recipe Showdown
2025TV
Guest Judge
Dreams
2025Movie
Jennifer McCarthy
Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye
2024TV
Self
Mothers' Instinct
2024Movie
Alice
Memory
2023Movie
Sylvia
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023TV
Self
George & Tammy
2022TV
Tammy Wynette
Armageddon Time
2022Movie
Maryanne Trump
The Good Nurse
2022Movie
Amy Loughren
The Forgiven
2022Movie
Jo Henninger
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
2022TV
Narrator (voice)
The 355
2022Movie
Mason 'Mace' Brown
The Sands Between
2021Movie
Woman
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021Movie
Tammy Faye Bakker
Scenes from a Marriage
2021TV
Mira Phillips
Ava
2020Movie
Ava
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020Movie
Self
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019Movie
Self
Very Ralph
2019Movie
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019TV
Self
It Chapter Two
2019Movie
Beverly Marsh
This Changes Everything
2019Movie
Self
Dark Phoenix
2019Movie
Vuk
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
2019Movie
Self
Woman Walks Ahead
2018Movie
Catherine Weldon
Half the Picture
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
Spheres
2018Movie
Narrator (Voice)
Family Feud
2018Movie
Presidents' interviewer
Molly's Game
2017Movie
Molly Bloom
The Zookeeper's Wife
2017Movie
Antonina Żabińska
I Am Jane Doe
2017Movie
Narrator (voice)
Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour
2016Movie
Self - Unapologetic Bitch
Miss Sloane
2016Movie
Madeline Elizabeth Sloane
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016Movie
Self
Chelsea
2016TV
Self
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016Movie
Sara
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
2016Movie
Self
I Remember Crimson Peak
2016Movie
Herself
Hand Tailored Gothic
2016Movie
Self
Crimson Peak
2015Movie
Lady Lucille Sharpe
The Martian
2015Movie
Melissa Lewis
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
Unity
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015TV
Self
ARES: live
2015TV
Melissa Lewis
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015Movie
Self / Murph
A Most Violent Year
2014Movie
Anna Morales
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014Movie
Self
Interstellar
2014Movie
Murph
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014Movie
Eleanor Rigby
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014Movie
Eleanor Rigby
Miss Julie
2014Movie
Miss Julie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014Movie
Eleanor Rigby
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self - Guest
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014TV
Self
Wilde Salomé
2013Movie
Self / Salomé
Salomé
2013Movie
Salomé
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013Movie
Self - Letter Reader
Seduced and Abandoned
2013Movie
Self
Mama
2013Movie
Annabel
Zero Dark Thirty
2012Movie
Maya
The Color of Time
2012Movie
Mrs. Williams
Lawless
2012Movie
Maggie Beauford
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012Movie
Gia (voice)
Texas Killing Fields
2011Movie
Pam Stall
Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
2011Movie
Self
Take Shelter
2011Movie
Samantha LaForche
The Help
2011Movie
Celia Foote
The Tree of Life
2011Movie
Mrs. O'Brien
Coriolanus
2011Movie
Virgilia
Conan
2010TV
Self - Guest
Jolene
2010Movie
Jolene
The Debt
2010Movie
Young Rachel Singer
The Westerner
2010Movie
Daniel's Mother
Stolen
2009Movie
Sally Ann
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008TV
Self
Journeyman
2007TV
Tanna Bloom
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self - Guest
El hormiguero
2006TV
Self
'Til Death
2006TV
Hostess
Blackbeard
2006TV
Charlotte Ormand
Close to Home
2005TV
Casey Wirth
Dark Shadows
2005Movie
Carolyn Stoddard
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005TV
Sigrun Borg
Veronica Mars
2004TV
Sarah Williams
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self - Guest
The View
1997TV
Self - Guest
Leute heute
1997TV
Self
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self - Guest
ER
1994TV
Dahlia Taslitz
Late Show with David Letterman
1993TV
Self - Guest
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Mary Debenham
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest
Goldene Kamera
1984TV
Self
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
The Savant
TV
The Savant
Nemesis
TV
The Off Weeks
TV
Stella West
My Darling California
Movie
Sharon Normandie
The Dealer
TV
The Division
Movie
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Movie
This Is Pleasure
Movie
Margot
Lear Rex
Movie
Goneril
Assassination
Movie
Dorothy Kilgallen
I Am Not Alone
Movie
Seducing Ingrid Bergman
Movie
Ingrid Bergman
Deck the Y'alls
Movie
Rachel Stein
Plus One
Movie
Rachel
Losing Clementine
Movie
Clementine