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Jessica Chastain
Jessica Michelle Chastain is an American actress and producer. Known for primarily starring in projects with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world i…
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entertainment · American actress and producer (born 1977) · actor · film producer · also Jessica Chastain, Jessica Michelle Howard, Chastain
Born 24 March 1977 · Q229313
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As a man, I am very much into this. People don’t realise how funny she is,
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2026· 4 entries
“As a man, I am very much into this. People don’t realise how funny she is,”
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“very active imagination, and then my grandma took me to a play. She made it clear that this was a professional theatre company, that this was their job – she wanted me to know that it was a treat. So then I saw a little girl on stage and I was like, OK, so this is totally my job, too. This is what I’m going to do. I’m ready. My poor mom – I was always like: Mom, can you take me to LA so I can be in commercials? I don’t think my parents thought that was even a real possibility.”
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Public attention spiked: 23,331 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 4,498, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: 2004–2010: Early work clean up, replaced: The Public Theatre → The Public Theater
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2025· 5 entries
The Guardian: Apple postpones Jessica Chastain series about domestic extremism
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The Guardian: Dreams review – Jessica Chastain channels rich Americans whose charity comes with strings
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The Guardian: Broadway biopic and film with Jessica Chastain among Berlinale highlights
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Chastain announced she was enrolled in a "mid-career" Master of Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School
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“s Ryan Lattanzio was appreciative of her playing an against-type, largely unsympathetic role. Chastain will next executive produce and star in the Apple TV+ miniseries The Savant, based on the true story of an investigator who infiltrates online hate groups. She will also reunite with Pacino in Lear Rex, an adaptation of Shakespeare”
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Mothers’ Instinct review – Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain feud in heavy-handed Hitchcockian thriller
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The Guardian: Mothers’ Instinct review – Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain in 60s-set operatic melodrama
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The Guardian: Memory review – Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard shine in delicate, trauma-fuelled anti-romcom
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Became the global ambassador for Damiani, an Italian luxury jewelry corporate group that designs, manufactures, distributes and sells jewelry and luxury watches
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Doll’s House review – Jessica Chastain captivates in minimalist revival
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2022· 7 entries
Released album “George & Tammy: Original Series Soundtrack”.
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The Guardian: Jessica Chastain: ‘I will never be angry at a woman for doing what she has to do to survive’
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The Guardian: George & Tammy review – Jessica Chastain is phenomenal at standing by her man
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2022).
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Awarded Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class (2022).
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Chastain traveled to Kyiv in Ukraine during Russia's invasion of the country
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Voiced her support for the community she loved, and called out bigoted legislation against them
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”.
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Earned Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance for The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021).
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Chastain agreed to Scenes from a Marriage, a gender-switched remake of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 Swedish miniseries of the same name for HBO, for its subversion of stereotypical portrayal of women
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2020· 2 entries
Chastain became an investor in a Los Angeles-based franchise for the National Women's Soccer League
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The production was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and later relocated to New York on Chastain's insistence
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2018· 3 entries
The couple had a daughter through surrogacy
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Hosted an episode of the television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live and voiced the virtual reality production Spheres: Songs of Spacetime
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Collaborated with 300 women in Hollywood to set up the Time's Up initiative to protect women from harassment and discrimination
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2017· 4 entries
Chastain married Preposulo at his family's estate in Carbonera, Italy
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Ben Dickinson of Elle wrote:With her often haunted-looking eyes, pale complexion, and gorgeous red mane [
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Featured alongside several Hollywood celebrities in a theatrical production of The Children's Monologues, in which she performed a monolog as a thirteen-year-old girl who is raped by her uncle
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Variety honored her for her work with Planned Parenthood
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2016· 1 entry
Chastain launched the production company Freckle Films, headed by a team of female executives
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2015· 4 entries
Glamour magazine ranked her as one of the best-dressed women
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Became the global ambassador for the Swiss jewelry and watchmaking company Piaget, and in 2017, she was made the face of Ralph Lauren's fragrance campaign, named Woman
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Chastain took on the part of a commander in Ridley Scott's science fiction film The Martian
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That "she's an adult, which isn't always a given in Hollywood
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2014· 1 entry
The Broadcast Film Critics Association honored Chastain with a special achievement award
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2013· 2 entries
And has stated that no father is listed on her birth certificate
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Chastain lent her support to the Got Your 6 campaign, to help empower veterans of the United States Army, and in 2016, she became an advisory-board member to the organization We Do It Together, which produces films and t
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2012· 3 entries
Premiered at the 65th Cannes Film Festival — the animated comedy Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and the crime drama Lawless
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And produced the film under her company Freckle Films
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Began dating Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, member of the ancient Passi de Preposulo family and an executive for the fashion brand Moncler
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2011· 5 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (2011).
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Expressed a preference for domestic routines like dog-walking and playing ukulele over partying
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Particularly in The Help, Take Shelter and The Tree of Life, won her awards from several critics' organizations
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And received wide recognition for several of them
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With six film releases, including the dramas Take Shelter (2011) and The Tree of Life (2011)
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2010· 1 entry
Chastain starred in John Madden's dramatic thriller The Debt, portraying a young Mossad agent sent to East Berlin in the 1960s to capture a former Nazi doctor who carried out medical experiments in concentration camps
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2009· 2 entries
Played the part of Desdemona in The Public Theater production of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, co-starring John Ortiz as the title character and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago
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Had a minor role in Stolen (2009), a mystery-thriller film with a limited theatrical release
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2008· 1 entry
As the titular character in Dan Ireland's drama Jolene, based on a short story by E
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2006· 1 entry
At the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, and Chastain later remarked that it helped bring her to the attention of several casting directors
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2004· 1 entry
Chastain took on the role of Anya, a virtuous young woman, in a Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard in Massachusetts, starring with Michelle Williams
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1998· 1 entry
Chastain finished her education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made her professional stage debut as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet staged by TheatreWorks, a company in the San Francisco Bay Area
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1981· 1 entry
The year in which the city had the highest crime rate, the film tells the story of a heating-oil company owner (Oscar Isaac) and his ruthless wife (Chastain)
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1977· 2 entries
In Sacramento, California, to Jerri Renee Hastey (née Chastain) and rock musician Michael Monasterio
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Born 1977-03-24.
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