Jessica Chastain on screen and stage

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Chastain at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

Jessica Chastain is an American actress who has appeared on film, television, and 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 several television shows, including ER, Veronica Mars, and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.[1][2] She also appeared in stage productions of The Cherry Orchard in 2004, opposite Michelle Williams, and Salome in 2006, opposite Al Pacino.[2] In 2008, Chastain made her film debut as the titular character in Jolene, an adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's short story Jolene: A Life.[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 Debt (2010).[4][5]

The year 2011 proved to be a breakthrough for Chastain.[6] Among her six film releases that year, she played opposite Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life, an experimental drama from the director Terrence Mallick, and portrayed a troubled homemaker in 1960s America in The Help, an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name.[7] For the latter, Chastain received her first Academy Award nomination in the supporting actress category.[8] In 2012, she voiced the character of Gia in the $747 million-grossing animated film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.[9] Chastain also played Maya, a CIA intelligent 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, she starred in the horror film Mama, and played an unhappily married woman in Ned Benson's The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, a drama told in three parts—Him, Her, and Them.[12] Chastain's biggest live-action commercial success came in 2014, when she played a scientist in Christopher Nolan's $675 million-grossing science fiction film Interstellar.[13][14] The following year, she played an astronaut alongside Matt Damon in The Martian.[15]

Film

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Chastain at a screening of Miss Julie in 2014
Key
Films that have not yet been released Denotes films that have not yet been released
Title Year[lower-alpha 1] Role Director(s) Notes Ref(s)
Jolene 2008 Jolene Dan Ireland [16]
Stolen 2009 Sally Ann Anders Anderson Also known as Stolen Lives[lower-alpha 2] [4]
[17]
The Westerner 2010 Daniel's mother Ned Benson Short film;
also co-producer		 [18]
The Debt 2010 Young Rachel Singer John Madden [5]
Take Shelter 2011 Samantha LaForche Jeff Nichols [19]
Coriolanus 2011 Virgilia Ralph Fiennes [20]
The Tree of Life 2011 Mrs. O'Brien Terrence Malick [21]
The Help 2011 Celia Foote Tate Taylor [7]
Wilde Salomé[lower-alpha 3] 2011 Salome Al Pacino Documentary film [23]
Texas Killing Fields 2011 Detective Pam Stall Ami Canaan Mann [24]
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 2012 Gia Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath
Conrad Vernon		 Voice only [25]
Lawless 2012 Maggie Beauford John Hillcoat [26]
The Color of Time 2012 Mrs. Williams Various Also known as Tar[lower-alpha 4] [27]
[28]
Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Maya Kathryn Bigelow [29]
Mama 2013 Annabel Andrés Muschietti [30]
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[lower-alpha 5] 2013 Eleanor Rigby Ned Benson Also co-producer [31]
[32]
Miss Julie 2014 Miss Julie Liv Ullmann [33]
Interstellar 2014 Murphy "Murph" Cooper Christopher Nolan [34]
A Most Violent Year 2014 Anna Morales J. C. Chandor [35]
Unity 2015 Narrator Shaun Monson Documentary film [36]
[37]
The Martian 2015 Melissa Lewis Ridley Scott [15]
[38]
Crimson Peak 2015 Lucille Sharpe Guillermo del Toro [39]
The Huntsman: Winter's War 2016 Sara Cedric Nicolas-Troyan [40]
The Zookeeper's Wife Films that have not yet been released. TBA Antonina Żabińska Niki Caro Post-production [41]
[42]
Miss Sloane Film has yet to be released. TBA Elizabeth Sloane John Madden Post-production [43]

Television

Title Year Role Notes Ref(s)
Dark Shadows 2004 Carolyn Stoddard Pilot episode[lower-alpha 6] [44]
ER 2004 Dahlia Taslitz Episode: "Forgive and Forget" [45]
Veronica Mars 2004 Sarah Williams Episode: "The Girl Next Door" [46]
Law & Order: Trial by Jury 2005–06 ADA Sigrun Borg Episodes: "41 Shots", "Vigilante" and "Eros in the Upper Eighties" [47]
Close to Home 2006 Casey Wirth Episode: "The Rapist Next Door" [48]
The Evidence 2006 Laura Green Episode: "Pilot" [49]
Blackbeard 2006 Charlotte Television mini-series [50]
Journeyman 2007 Tanna Bloom Episode: "Friendly Skies" [51]
Agatha Christie's Poirot 2010 Mary Debenham Episode: "Murder on the Orient Express" [52]
Animals. 2016 Sarah (voice) Episode: "Turkeys" [53]
[54]

Stage

Production Year Role Theater Ref(s)
Romeo and Juliet 1998 Juliet Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts [55]
The Cherry Orchard 2004 Anya Williamstown Theatre Festival [56]
Rodney's Wife 2004 Lee Playwrights Horizons [57]
Salome 2006 Salome Wadsworth Theatre [58]
Othello 2009 Desdemona The Public Theatre [59]
The Heiress 2012 Catherine Sloper Walter Kerr Theatre [60]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Refers to the film's earliest release.
  2. ↑ The film was screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival as Stolen Lives, but was released theatrically as Stolen.
  3. ↑ A feature film version of the documentary, entitled Salomé, was separately released in 2013.[22]
  4. ↑ The film was screened at the 2012 Rome Film Festival as Tar, but was released theatrically as The Color of Time.
  5. ↑ Split into three films—subtitled Him, Her, and Them.[31]
  6. ↑ The episode did not air.[44]

References

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