Jessica Chastain on screen and stage

Jessica Chastain is an American actress who has appeared in 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 with Michelle Williams for The Cherry Orchard in 2004, and with Al Pacino for Salome in 2006.[2] In 2008, Chastain made her film debut as the title 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 starred with Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life, an experimental drama from the director Terrence Malick, and portrayed an aspiring socialite 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 Awardnomination in the supporting actress category.[8] In 2012, she voiced Gia in the $747 million-grossing animated film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.[9]She also played a CIA 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 successes came in the next two years with the science fiction films, Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015), both of which grossed over $600 million worldwide.[13] In the former, directed by Christopher Nolan, she played a scientist, and in the latter, directed by Ridley Scott, she featured as an astronaut alongside Matt Damon.[14][15] Chastain went on to play strong-willed titular protagonists in the political thriller Miss Sloane (2016), the historical drama The Zookeeper's Wife (2017), and the crime film Molly's Game (2017).[16]
== Film ==
Title 	Year[a]	Role 	Director(s) 	Notes 	Ref(s)
Jolene 	2008 	Jolene 	Dan Ireland 	 	[17]
Stolen 	2009 	Sally Ann 	Anders Anderson 	Also known as Stolen Lives[b]	[4]
[18]
The Westerner 	2010 	Daniel's mother 	Ned Benson 	Short film;
also co-producer 	[19]
The Debt 	2010 	Young Rachel Singer 	John Madden 	 	[5]
Take Shelter 	2011 	Samantha LaForche 	Jeff Nichols 	 	[20]
Coriolanus 	2011 	Virgilia 	Ralph Fiennes 	 	[21]
The Tree of Life 	2011 	Mrs. O'Brien 	Terrence Malick 	 	[22]
The Help 	2011 	Celia Foote 	Tate Taylor 	 	[7]
Wilde Salomé[c] 	2011 	Salome 	Al Pacino 	Documentary film 	[24]
Texas Killing Fields 	2011 	Detective Pam Stall 	Ami Canaan Mann 	 	[25]
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 	2012 	Gia 	Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath
Conrad Vernon	Voice only 	[26]
Lawless 	2012 	Maggie Beauford 	John Hillcoat 	 	[27]
The Color of Time 	2012 	Mrs. Williams 	Various 	Also known as Tar[d] 	[28]
[29]
Zero Dark Thirty 	2012 	Maya 	Kathryn Bigelow 	 	[30]
Mama 	2013 	Annabel 	Andy Muschietti 	 	[31]
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[e]	2013 	Eleanor Rigby 	Ned Benson 	Also co-producer 	[32]
[33]
Miss Julie 	2014 	Miss Julie 	Liv Ullmann 	 	[34]
Interstellar 	2014 	Murphy "Murph" Cooper	Christopher Nolan 	 	[35]
A Most Violent Year 	2014 	Anna Morales 	J. C. Chandor 	 	[36]
Unity 	2015 	Narrator 	Shaun Monson 	Documentary film 	[37]
[38]
The Martian 	2015 	Melissa Lewis 	Ridley Scott 	 	[15]
[39]
Crimson Peak 	2015 	Lucille Sharpe 	Guillermo del Toro 	 	[40]
The Huntsman: Winter's War 	2016 	Sara 	Cedric Nicolas-Troyan	 	[41]
Miss Sloane 	2016 	Elizabeth Sloane 	John Madden 	 	[42]
I Am Jane Doe 	2017 	Narrator 	Mary Mazzio 	Documentary film;
also executive producer	[43]
The Zookeeper's Wife 	2017 	Antonina Żabińska 	Niki Caro 	Also executive producer 	[44]
[45]
Molly's Game 	2017 	Molly Bloom 	Aaron Sorkin 	 	[46]
Woman Walks Ahead 	2017 	Catherine Weldon 	Susanna White 	 	[47]
Whispering Dreams 	2024 	Aurora 	Andy Muschietti 	 	
Anya's Ghost 	2029 	Mrs. Bradley 	Andy Muschietti 	 	
== Television ==
Title 	Year 	Role 	Notes 	Ref(s)
Dark Shadows 	2004 	Carolyn Stoddard	Pilot episode[f] 	[51]
ER 	2004 	Dahlia Taslitz 	Episode: "Forgive and Forget" 	[52]
Veronica Mars 	2004 	Sarah Williams 	Episode: "The Girl Next Door" 	[53]
Law & Order: Trial by Jury	2005–06	ADA Sigrun Borg 	3 episodes 	[54]
Close to Home 	2006 	Casey Wirth 	Episode: "The Rapist Next Door" 	[55]
The Evidence 	2006 	Laura Green 	Episode: "Pilot" 	[56]
Blackbeard 	2006 	Charlotte Ormand	Miniseries 	[57]
Journeyman 	2007 	Tanna Bloom 	Episode: "Friendly Skies" 	[58]
Agatha Christie's Poirot 	2010 	Mary Debenham 	Episode: "Murder on the Orient Express"	[59]
Animals. 	2016 	Sarah (voice) 	Episode: "Turkeys" 	[60]
[61]
Saturday Night Live 	2018 	Herself 	Episode: "Jessica Chastain/Troye Sivan"	[62]