Jessica Chastain

Jessica Michelle Chastain, born March 24, 1977 is an American actress. She is most well-known for her part in films that have feminist themes. She has won numerous awards such as an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Time magazine named her one the 100 most influential individuals worldwide in 2012. Chastain was drawn to acting from an early age and made her professional stage debut in 1998 as Shakespeare's Juliet. She was a student at the Juilliard School and was then signed to a talent-holding deal with John Wells, a television producer. She appeared as frequent guest on a variety of television shows and was also a part of many stage productions. Chastain made her debut film in Jolene (2008) aged 31. She continued to release six films in 2011, including The Tree of Life (2011) and Take Shelter (2011). In her roles as an aspiring socialite as well as a CIA analyst, she earned Academy Award nominations in The Help (2011) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The science fiction films Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015) were commercially more successful than the horror film It Chapter Two (2019). Chastain has also received praise for playing strong-willed women in the dramas A Most violent Year (2014), Miss Sloane (2016), and Molly's Game (2017), and in the TV miniseries Scenes from a Marriage (2021). She was later cast as Tammy Faye Bakker in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) with the Academy Award for Best Actress as well as Tammy Wynette in the miniseries George & Tammy (2022). Chastain created Freckle Films to promote diversity in film production. She is also an investor in Angel City FC. She is vocal about gender equality, mental illness and racial equality. She is engaged to fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, with whom