Jessica Chastain

American actress and producer

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2025 Jessica Chastain is set to appear in the film 'Dreams', playing the role of Jennifer McCarthy.
2025 Appeared in Dreams, a romantic drama about illegal immigration that premiered at the Berlinale.
2024 Produced and starred alongside Anne Hathaway in Mothers' Instinct, a remake of a Belgian psychological thriller.
2023 Jessica Chastain starred in the film 'Memory', playing the role of Sylvia.
2023 Signed an open letter by Artists4Ceasefire calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war.
2023 Starred in Broadway revival of A Doll's House, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
2023 Supported the SAG-AFTRA strike, attending the Venice International Film Festival premiere of 'Memory' wearing a support t-shirt after receiving an interim-agreement waiver.
2023 Jessica Chastain starred in and executive produced 'The Space Within', an Audible audio production where she plays Dr. Madeline Wyle
2022 Portrayed Maryanne Trump in James Gray's period film Armageddon Time.
2022 Starred in The 355, a female-led spy film pitched at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and picked up by Universal Pictures.
2022 Traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine during the Russian invasion, visiting a children's hospital and meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andrii Yermak.
2022 Executive produced and starred in Showtime's George & Tammy, playing Tammy Wynette, for which she won a SAG Award and received a Golden Globe nomination and her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
2022 Won the Academy Award for Best Actress and used the platform to voice support for the LGBT community and speak out against bigoted legislation.
2022 Chastain narrates the documentary miniseries Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
2022 Chastain starred in and produced The 355, and also appeared in The Good Nurse and Armageddon Time
2021 Appeared in HBO's Scenes from a Marriage, receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries.
2021 Chastain won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Bakker in 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye', which she also produced.
2020 Produced and starred in the action film Ava, released during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 Featured in a short film 'Leading with Intensity', made by an all-female cast and crew, as part of her 'Lead Like A Woman' initiative.
2019 Appeared in It Chapter Two.
2019 Appeared in the superhero film Dark Phoenix and starred in It Chapter Two as the adult Beverly Marsh.
2018 Collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to establish the Time's Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination.
2018 Welcomed daughter Giulietta Passi Chastain through surrogacy.
2018 Jessica Chastain serves as narrator and executive producer for 'Spheres: Songs of Spacetime', a virtual reality experience released for Oculus Rift
2018 Jessica Chastain appears as herself on Saturday Night Live, hosted by her with musical guest Troye Sivan
2017 Made the face of Ralph Lauren's fragrance campaign named 'Woman'.
2017 Publicly supported actress Michelle Williams in her equal pay dispute, helping raise awareness and contributing to a $2 million donation to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund.
2017 Served as a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival, publicly criticizing the passive portrayal of women in films.
2017 Jessica Chastain starred in and executive produced The Zookeeper's Wife, portraying Antonina Żabińska
2017 Jessica Chastain featured in Jay-Z's music video 'Family Feud', which was part of his album 4:44
2017 Jessica Chastain participated in 'The Children's Monologues' at Carnegie Hall, playing a 13-year-old girl
2017 Chastain became an executive producer for the documentary I Am Jane Doe and starred in The Zookeeper's Wife and Molly's Game
June 10 2017 Married Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo at his family's estate in Carbonera, Italy.
2016 Starred in The Huntsman: Winter's War and the political thriller Miss Sloane, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Launched her production company Freckle Films, headed by female executives.
2016 Chastain provides voice work for the 'Turkeys' episode of the series Animals.
2015 Starred in Ridley Scott's science fiction film The Martian and the gothic romance Crimson Peak, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
2015 Became the global ambassador for Piaget, a Swiss jewelry and watchmaking company.
December 2015 Wrote an essay on gender imbalance in the film industry for The Hollywood Reporter, highlighting discrimination against women in Hollywood.
2014 Chastain appeared in three films: Miss Julie, Interstellar, and A Most Violent Year. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for A Most Violent Year and received a special achievement award from the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
2014 Chastain played Murphy 'Murph' Cooper in the science fiction film Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan
2013 Starred in and produced The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, working with director Ned Benson to create three different versions of the film: Him, Her, and Them.
2013 Became the first performer in fifteen years to have leading roles in the top two films at the North American box office with Mama and Zero Dark Thirty.
2012 She endorsed the Yves Saint Laurent fragrance called Manifesto.
2012 Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
2012 Jessica Chastain acquired the rights to Tammy Faye Bakker's life story, which would later become the film The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
2012 Began dating Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, an Italian count who works as an executive for Moncler.
2012 Chastain was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
2012 Chastain starred in the critically acclaimed film 'Zero Dark Thirty', playing Maya Harris, which was a pivotal role in her career.
2012 Jessica Chastain performed as Catherine Sloper in 'The Heiress' at the Walter Kerr Theatre
May 2012 Two of Chastain's films, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Lawless, premiered at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

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