Jessica Michelle Chastain, born March 24, 1977, is an American actress. Her main focus is on films that have feminist themes, she has been awarded numerous awards like an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential persons in the world in 2012. Chastain was a keen actor since her early years. She made her professional performance debut on stage as Shakespeare's Juliet in 1998. After attending the Juilliard School, she was hired to a talent holding deal with the producer of television John Wells. She was regular guest on various television shows, as well as starring in numerous stage productions. Chastain's first film appearance was in Jolene (2008) at the age of 31 years old. In 2011, Chastain achieved her breakthrough with six films, including The Tree of Life (2011), Take Shelter (2011), and The Tree of Life (2012). She was considered for Academy Award nominations as a role in The Help (2011), in which she played an aspirational socialite. Then she appeared in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) as an CIA analyst. The science fiction films Interstellar (2014) & The Martian (2015) were commercially more successful than the horror film It Chapter Two (2019). Chastain has also received praise for her performance as strong-willed females in the dramas A Very violent Year (2014), Miss Sloane (2016) and Molly's Game (2017), and the television miniseries Scenes from a Marriage (2021). She later played Tammy Faye Bakker in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Tammy Wynette in the miniseries George & Tammy (2022). Chastain is the creator of the production firm Freckle Films, which was founded to encourage diversity in film, and is an shareholder in the soccer club Angel City FC. She is vocal about gender equality, mental illness and racial equality. She is married to fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo who is her partner.
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