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) |
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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 | Post-production | [64] |
Dreams † | Jennifer | Post-production | [65] |
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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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) |
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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. |
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2017 | "Family Feud" | Jay-Z (featuring Beyoncé) | 4:44 | [91] |
Year | Title | Role | Platform | Note | Ref. |
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2023 | The Space Within | Dr. Madeline Wyle | Audible | Also executive producer | [92] |
Year | Title | Role | Release | Note | Ref. |
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2018 | Spheres: Songs of Spacetime | Narrator | Oculus Rift | Also executive producer | [93] |
Year | Title | Album | Ref. |
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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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