Jessica Chastain on screen and stage

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

Chastain at a screening of Miss Julie in 2014

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Title	Year[lower-alpha 1]	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
Jolene	2008	Jolene	Ireland, DanDan Ireland		[16]
Stolen	2009	Sally Ann	Anders Anderson	Also known as Stolen Lives[lower-alpha 2]	[4] [17]
The Westerner	2010	Daniel's mother	Benson, NedNed Benson	Short film; also co-producer	[18]
Debt, TheThe Debt	2010	Young Rachel Singer	Madden, JohnJohn Madden		[5]
Take Shelter	2011	Samantha LaForche	Nichols, JeffJeff Nichols		[19]
Coriolanus	2011	Virgilia	Fiennes, RalphRalph Fiennes		[20]
Tree of Life, TheThe Tree of Life	2011	Mrs. O'Brien	Malick, TerrenceTerrence Malick		[21]
Help, TheThe Help	2011	Celia Foote	Taylor, TateTate Taylor		[7]
Wilde Salomé[lower-alpha 3]	2011	Salome	Pacino, AlAl Pacino	Documentary film	[23]
Texas Killing Fields	2011	Detective Pam Stall	Mann, Ami CanaanAmi Canaan Mann		[24]
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	2012	Gia	Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon	Voice only	[25]
Lawless	2012	Maggie Beauford	Hillcoat, JohnJohn Hillcoat		[26]
The Color of Time	2012	Mrs. Williams	Various	Also known as Tar[lower-alpha 4]	[27] [28]
Zero Dark Thirty	2012	Maya	Bigelow, KathrynKathryn Bigelow		[29]
Mama	2013	Annabel	Muschietti, AndrésAndrés Muschietti		[30]
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[lower-alpha 5]	2013	Eleanor Rigby	Benson, NedNed Benson	Also co-producer	[31] [32]
Miss Julie	2014	Miss Julie	Ullmann, LivLiv Ullmann		[33]
Interstellar	2014	Murphy "Murph" Cooper	Nolan, ChristopherChristopher Nolan		[34]
A Most Violent Year	2014	Anna Morales	Chandor, J. C.J. C. Chandor		[35]
Unity	2015	Narrator	Monson, ShaunShaun Monson	Documentary film	[36] [37]
The Martian	2015	Melissa Lewis	Scott, RidleyRidley Scott		[15] [38]
Crimson Peak	2015	Lucille Sharpe	del Toro, GuillermoGuillermo del Toro		[39]
The Huntsman: Winter's War	2016	Sara	Nicolas-Troyan, CedricCedric Nicolas-Troyan		[40]
The Zookeeper's Wife	TBA	Antonina Żabińska	Caro, NikiNiki Caro	Post-production	[41] [42]
Miss Sloane	TBA	Elizabeth Sloane	Madden, JohnJohn Madden	Post-production	[43]

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
Dark Shadows	2004	Stoddard, CarolynCarolyn 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

• List of awards and nominations received by Jessica Chastain

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]

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External links

• Jessica Chastain at the Internet Movie Database
• Jessica Chastain at the Internet Broadway Database