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Jessica Chastain

Acting 48 years old Southern California, California, USA ★ 6.8
Born: March 24, 1977

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.

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Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Self - Guest 2009
'Til Death
'Til Death Hostess 2006
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark Self - Guest 1988
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show Self - Guest 2007

Jimmy's Seen (2)

Molly's Game
Molly's Game Molly Bloom 2017
A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year Anna Morales 2014

Filmography

Acting Credits (120)

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

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