Jessica Chastain on screen and stage
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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Television
Title | Year | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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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) |
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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
- ↑ Refers to the film's earliest release.
- ↑ The film was screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival as Stolen Lives, but was released theatrically as Stolen.
- ↑ A feature film version of the documentary, entitled Salomé, was separately released in 2013.[22]
- ↑ The film was screened at the 2012 Rome Film Festival as Tar, but was released theatrically as The Color of Time.
- ↑ Split into three films—subtitled Him, Her, and Them.[31]
- ↑ The episode did not air.[44]
References
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External links
- Jessica Chastain at the Internet Movie Database
- Jessica Chastain at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).