Jessica Chastain on screen and stage

Jessica Chastain is an American actress and producer who has appeared in film, television, and on stage. As a final-year student at the Juilliard School, she was signed on for a talent holding deal by the television producer John Wells.[1] From 2004 to 2010, she had guest roles in television shows, including ER, Veronica Mars, and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.[1][2] She also appeared in stage productions with Michelle Williams for The Cherry Orchard in 2004, and with Al Pacino for Salome in 2006.[2] In 2008, Chastain made her film debut as the title character in the drama Jolene.[3] She had a minor role in Stolen (2009), a critically panned mystery-thriller, following which she played the younger version of Helen Mirren's character in the action thriller film The Debt (2010).[4][5]

Chastain at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival

The year 2011 proved to be a breakthrough for Chastain.[6] Among her six film releases that year, she starred with Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life, an experimental drama from Terrence Malick, and portrayed an aspiring socialite in 1960s America in the drama The Help.[7] For the latter, Chastain received her first Academy Award nomination in the supporting actress category.[8] In 2012, she voiced Gia in the $747 million-grossing animated film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.[9] She also played a CIA analyst in Kathryn Bigelow's thriller Zero Dark Thirty—a partly fictionalized account of the manhunt for Osama bin Laden—which garnered her an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.[10] Also in 2012, Chastain made her Broadway debut with a revival of The Heiress, playing the role of a naive young girl who transforms into a powerful woman.[11]

In 2013, Chastain starred in the horror film Mama, and played an unhappily married woman in Ned Benson's three-part drama film, collectively titled The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.[12] Chastain's biggest live-action commercial successes came in the next two years with the science fiction films, Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015), both of which grossed over $600 million worldwide.[13] In the former, directed by Christopher Nolan, she played a scientist, and in the latter, directed by Ridley Scott, she featured as an astronaut alongside Matt Damon.[14][15] Chastain went on to play strong-willed titular protagonists in the political thriller Miss Sloane (2016), the historical drama The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), and the crime film Molly's Game (2017).[16] In 2019, Chastain starred as the adult Beverly Marsh in the horror sequel It Chapter Two.[17]

Film
Chastain at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2008 Jolene Jolene [18]
2009 Stolen Sally Ann Also known as Stolen Lives[lower-alpha 1] [4][19]
2010 The Westerner Daniel's mother Short film; also co-producer [20]
2010 The Debt Young Rachel Singer [5]
2011 Take Shelter Samantha LaForche [21]
2011 Coriolanus Virgilia [22]
2011 The Tree of Life Mrs. O'Brien [23]
2011 The Help Celia Foote [7]
2011 Wilde Salomé[lower-alpha 2] Salome Documentary film [25]
2011 Texas Killing Fields Detective Pam Stall [26]
2012 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Gia (voice) [27]
2012 Lawless Maggie Beauford [28]
2012 The Color of Time Mrs. Williams Also known as Tar[lower-alpha 3] [29][30]
2012 Zero Dark Thirty Maya [31]
2013 Mama Annabel [32]
2013 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[lower-alpha 4] Eleanor Rigby Also co-producer [33][34]
2014 Miss Julie Miss Julie [35]
2014 Interstellar Murphy "Murph" Cooper [36]
2014 A Most Violent Year Anna Morales [37]
2015 Unity Narrator Documentary film [38][39]
2015 The Martian Melissa Lewis [15][40]
2015 Crimson Peak Lucille Sharpe [41]
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War Sara [42]
2016 Miss Sloane Elizabeth Sloane [43]
2017 I Am Jane Doe Narrator Documentary film; also executive producer [44]
2017 The Zookeeper's Wife Antonina Żabińska Also executive producer [45][46]
2017 Molly's Game Molly Bloom [47]
2017 Woman Walks Ahead Caroline Weldon [48]
2018 This Changes Everything Herself Documentary film [49]
2019 Dark Phoenix Vuk / Margaret [50]
2019 It Chapter Two Beverly Marsh Shared role with Sophia Lillis [17]
2020 Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy Herself Documentary film; also executive producer [51]
2020 Ava Ava Faulkner Also producer [52]
2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye Tammy Faye Bakker Post-production; also producer [53]
2022 The 355 Mason "Mace" Brown Post-production; also producer [54]
TBA The Forgiven TBA Post-production [55]

Television
Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2004 Dark Shadows Carolyn Stoddard Pilot episode[lower-alpha 5] [56]
2004 ER Dahlia Taslitz Episode: "Forgive and Forget" [57]
2004 Veronica Mars Sarah Williams Episode: "The Girl Next Door" [58]
2005–06 Law & Order: Trial by Jury ADA Sigrun Borg 3 episodes [59]
2006 Close to Home Casey Wirth Episode: "The Rapist Next Door" [60]
2006 The Evidence Laura Green Episode: "Pilot" [61]
2006 Blackbeard Charlotte Ormand Miniseries [62]
2007 Journeyman Tanna Bloom Episode: "Friendly Skies" [63]
2010 Agatha Christie's Poirot Mary Debenham Episode: "Murder on the Orient Express" [64]
2016 Animals. Sarah (voice) Episode: "Turkeys" [65]
[66]
2018 Saturday Night Live Herself Episode: "Jessica Chastain/Troye Sivan" [67]
TBA Scenes from a Marriage Miniseries, also executive producer [68]

Stage
Year Production Role Theater Ref(s)
1998 Romeo and Juliet Juliet Capulet Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts [69]
2004 The Cherry Orchard Anya Williamstown Theatre Festival [70]
2004 Rodney's Wife Lee Playwrights Horizons [71]
2006 Salome Salome Wadsworth Theatre [72]
2009 Othello Desdemona The Public Theatre [73]
2012 The Heiress Catherine Sloper Walter Kerr Theatre [74]
2017 The Children's Monologues 13-year-old girl Carnegie Hall [75]

Music video
Year Title Performer(s) Director Album Ref.
2017 "Family Feud" Jay-Z (featuring Beyoncé) Ava DuVernay 4:44 [76]

Virtual reality
Year Title Role Release Note Ref.
2018 Spheres: Songs of Spacetime Narrator Oculus Rift Also executive producer [77]

See also

Footnotes
  1. The film was screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival as Stolen Lives, but was released theatrically as Stolen.
  2. A feature film version of the documentary, entitled Salomé, was separately released in 2013.[24]
  3. The film was screened at the 2012 Rome Film Festival as Tar, but was released theatrically as The Color of Time.
  4. Split into three films—subtitled Him, Her, and Them.[33]
  5. The episode did not air.[56]

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