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American actress Jessica Chastain studied at the Juilliard School, where she was signed 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 played the title character in her film debut 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]
The year 2011 proved 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 a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress.[10] Also in 2012, Chastain made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Heiress, playing a naive young girl who becomes 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 played 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 played the adult Beverly Marsh in the horror sequel It Chapter Two.[17] In 2021, she starred in the HBO miniseries Scenes from a Marriage, and produced and starred as the televangelist Tammy Faye in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye.[18][19] For the latter, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.[20] Chastain received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for starring in a 2023 Broadway revival of A Doll's House.[21]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Jolene | Jolene | [22] | |
2009 | Stolen | Sally Ann | Also known as Stolen Lives[a] | [4][23] |
2010 | The Westerner | Daniel's mother | Short film; also co-producer | [24] |
The Debt | Young Rachel Singer | [5] | ||
2011 | Take Shelter | Samantha LaForche | [25] | |
Coriolanus | Virgilia | [26] | ||
The Tree of Life | Mrs. O'Brien | [27] | ||
The Help | Celia Foote | [7] | ||
Wilde Salomé[b] | Salome | Documentary film | [29] | |
Texas Killing Fields | Detective Pam Stall | [30] | ||
2012 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | Gia | Voice | [31] |
Lawless | Maggie Beauford | [32] | ||
The Color of Time | Mrs. Williams | Also known as Tar[c] | [33][34] | |
Zero Dark Thirty | Maya Harris | [35] | ||
2013 | Mama | Annabel | [36] | |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[d] | Eleanor Rigby | Also co-producer | [37][38] | |
2014 | Miss Julie | Miss Julie | [39] | |
Interstellar | Murphy "Murph" Cooper | [40] | ||
A Most Violent Year | Anna Morales | [41] | ||
2015 | Unity | Narrator | Documentary film | [42][43] |
The Martian | Melissa Lewis | [15][44] | ||
Crimson Peak | Lucille Sharpe | [45] | ||
2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Sara | [46] | |
Miss Sloane | Elizabeth Sloane | [47] | ||
2017 | I Am Jane Doe | Narrator | Documentary film; also executive producer | [48] |
The Zookeeper's Wife | Antonina Żabińska | Also executive producer | [49][50] | |
Molly's Game | Molly Bloom | [51] | ||
Woman Walks Ahead | Caroline Weldon | [52] | ||
2018 | This Changes Everything | Herself | Documentary film | [53] |
2019 | Dark Phoenix | Vuk / Margaret | [54] | |
It Chapter Two | Beverly Marsh | [17] | ||
2020 | Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy | Herself | Documentary film; also executive producer | [55] |
Ava | Ava Faulkner | Also producer | [56] | |
2021 | The Forgiven | Jo Henninger | [57] | |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Tammy Faye | Also producer | [58] | |
2022 | The 355 | Mason "Mace" Brown | Also producer | [59] |
Armageddon Time | Maryanne Trump | Cameo | [60] | |
The Good Nurse | Amy Loughren | [61] | ||
2023 | Memory | Sylvia | [62] | |
2024 | Mothers' Instinct | Alice Bradford | Also producer | [63] |
TBA | Lear Rex † | Goneril | Filming | [64] |
Dreams † | Jennifer | Post-production | [65] |
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
2004 | Dark Shadows | Carolyn Stoddard | Pilot episode[e] | [66] |
ER | Dahlia Taslitz | Episode: "Forgive and Forget" | [67] | |
Veronica Mars | Sarah Williams | Episode: "The Girl Next Door" | [68] | |
2005–2006 | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | ADA Sigrun Borg | 3 episodes | [69] |
2006 | Close to Home | Casey Wirth | Episode: "The Rapist Next Door" | [70] |
The Evidence | Laura Green | Episode: "Pilot" | [71] | |
Blackbeard | Charlotte Ormand | Miniseries | [72] | |
2007 | 'Til Death | Hostess | Episode: "The Italian Affair" | [73] |
Journeyman | Tanna Bloom | Episode: "Friendly Skies" | [74] | |
2010 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Mary Debenham | Episode: "Murder on the Orient Express" | [75] |
2016 | Animals. | Sarah | Voice, episode: "Turkeys" | [76] [77] |
2018 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | Episode: "Jessica Chastain / Troye Sivan" | [78] |
2021 | Scenes from a Marriage | Mira Phillips | Miniseries; also executive producer | [79] |
2022 | Reframed: Marilyn Monroe | Narrator | Documentary miniseries | [80] |
2022–2023 | George & Tammy | Tammy Wynette | Miniseries; also executive producer | [81] |
TBA | The Savant † | TBA | Upcoming miniseries; also executive producer | [82] |
† | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
Year | Production | Role | Venue | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1998 | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet Capulet | Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts | [83] |
2004 | The Cherry Orchard | Anya | Williamstown Theatre Festival | [84] |
2004 | Rodney's Wife | Lee | Playwrights Horizons | [85] |
2006 | Salome | Salome | Wadsworth Theatre | [86] |
2009 | Othello | Desdemona | The Public Theater | [87] |
2012 | The Heiress | Catherine Sloper | Walter Kerr Theatre | [88] |
2017 | The Children's Monologues | 13-year-old girl | Carnegie Hall | [89] |
2023 | A Doll's House | Nora Helmer | Hudson Theatre | [90] |
Year | Title | Performer(s) | Album | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | "Family Feud" | Jay-Z (featuring Beyoncé) | 4:44 | [91] |
Year | Title | Role | Release | Note | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | Spheres: Songs of Spacetime | Narrator | Oculus Rift | Also executive producer | [93] |
Year | Title | Album | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
2021 | "Battle Hymn of the Republic" | The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | [94] |
"Jesus Keeps Takin' Me Higher & Higher" | |||
"The Sun Will Shine Again" | |||
"Somebody Touched Me" | |||
"We are Blest" | |||
"Don't Give Up (On the Brink of a Miracle)" | |||
"Puppet Medley (Give a Hug, Jesus Loves Me, Up with a Giggle)" | |||
2022 | "The Race is On" | George & Tammy (Original Series Soundtrack) | [94] |
"White Lightning" | |||
"Apartment No. 9" | |||
"Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad" | |||
"Why Baby Why" | |||
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" | |||
"A Girl I Used to Know" | |||
"Rollin’ in My Sweet Baby's Arms" | |||
"Stand By Your Man" | |||
"Take Me" | |||
"I Don’t Wanna Play House" | |||
"Beneath Still Waters" | |||
"Something to Brag About" | |||
"We’re Gonna Hold On" | |||
"Run, Woman, Run" | |||
"The Grand Tour" | |||
"‘Til I Get It Right" | |||
"We Go Together" | |||
"You and Me" | |||
"Two Story House" | |||
"The Door" | |||
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" | |||
"Golden Ring" | |||
"Help Me Make It Through The Night" | |||
"Lost Highway" |
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