American actress Jessica Chastain studied at the Juilliard School, where she was signed for a talent holding deal by the television producer John Wells. From 2004 to 2010, she had guest roles in television shows, including ER, Veronica Mars, and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She also appeared in stage productions with Michelle Williams for The Cherry Orchard in 2004, and with Al Pacino for Salome in 2006. In 2008, Chastain played the title character in her film debut Jolene. 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 action thriller film The Debt (2010).

The year 2011 proved a breakthrough for Chastain. Among her six film releases that year, she starred with Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life, an experimental drama from Terrence Malick, and portrayed an aspiring socialite in 1960s America in the drama The Help. For the latter, Chastain received her first Academy Award nomination, in the supporting actress category. In 2012, she voiced Gia in the $747 million-grossing animated film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. 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 a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress. Also in 2012, Chastain made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Heiress, playing a naive young girl who becomes a powerful woman.

In 2013, Chastain starred in the horror film Mama, and played an unhappily married woman in Ned Benson's three-part drama film, collectively titled The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. 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. In the former, directed by Christopher Nolan, she played a scientist, and in the latter, directed by Ridley Scott, she played an astronaut alongside Matt Damon. 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). In 2019, Chastain played the adult Beverly Marsh in the horror sequel It Chapter Two. In 2021, she starred in the HBO miniseries Scenes from a Marriage, and produced and starred as the televangelist Tammy Faye in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye. For the latter, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Chastain received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for starring in a 2023 Broadway revival of A Doll's House.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2008	Jolene	Jolene
2009	Stolen	Sally Ann	Also known as Stolen Lives
2010	The Westerner	Daniel's mother	Short film; also co-producer
	The Debt	Young Rachel Singer
2011	Take Shelter	Samantha LaForche
	Coriolanus	Virgilia
	The Tree of Life	Mrs. O'Brien
	The Help	Celia Foote
	Wilde Salomé	Salome	Documentary film
	Texas Killing Fields	Detective Pam Stall
2012	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Gia	Voice
	Lawless	Maggie Beauford
	The Color of Time	Mrs. Williams	Also known as Tar
	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya Harris
2013	Mama	Annabel
	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby	Eleanor Rigby	Also co-producer
2014	Miss Julie	Miss Julie
	Interstellar	Murphy "Murph" Cooper
	A Most Violent Year	Anna Morales
2015	Unity	Narrator	Documentary film
	The Martian	Melissa Lewis
	Crimson Peak	Lucille Sharpe
2016	The Huntsman: Winter's War	Sara
	Miss Sloane	Elizabeth Sloane
2017	I Am Jane Doe	Narrator	Documentary film; also executive producer
	The Zookeeper's Wife	Antonina Żabińska	Also executive producer
	Molly's Game	Molly Bloom
	Woman Walks Ahead	Caroline Weldon
2018	This Changes Everything	Herself	Documentary film
2019	Dark Phoenix	Vuk / Margaret
	It Chapter Two	Beverly Marsh
2020	Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy	Herself	Documentary film; also executive producer
	Ava	Ava Faulkner	Also producer
2021	The Forgiven	Jo Henninger
	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Tammy Faye	Also producer
2022	The 355	Mason "Mace" Brown	Also producer
	Armageddon Time	Maryanne Trump	Cameo
	The Good Nurse	Amy Loughren
2023	Memory	Sylvia
2024	Mothers' Instinct	Alice Bradford	Also producer
TBA	Dreams †	TBA	Post-production

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2004	Dark Shadows	Carolyn Stoddard	Pilot episode
	ER	Dahlia Taslitz	Episode: "Forgive and Forget"
	Veronica Mars	Sarah Williams	Episode: "The Girl Next Door"
2005–2006	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	ADA Sigrun Borg	3 episodes
2006	Close to Home	Casey Wirth	Episode: "The Rapist Next Door"
	The Evidence	Laura Green	Episode: "Pilot"
	Blackbeard	Charlotte Ormand	Miniseries
2007	'Til Death	Hostess	Episode: "The Italian Affair"
	Journeyman	Tanna Bloom	Episode: "Friendly Skies"
2010	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mary Debenham	Episode: "Murder on the Orient Express"
2016	Animals.	Sarah	Voice, episode: "Turkeys"
2018	Saturday Night Live	Herself	Episode: "Jessica Chastain / Troye Sivan"
2021	Scenes from a Marriage	Mira Phillips	Miniseries; also executive producer
2022	Reframed: Marilyn Monroe	Narrator	Documentary miniseries
2022–2023	George & Tammy	Tammy Wynette	Miniseries; also executive producer
TBA	The Savant †	TBA	Upcoming miniseries; also executive producer

Key

†	Denotes series that have not yet been released

Stage

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Ref(s)
1998	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet Capulet	Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
2004	The Cherry Orchard	Anya	Williamstown Theatre Festival
2004	Rodney's Wife	Lee	Playwrights Horizons
2006	Salome	Salome	Wadsworth Theatre
2009	Othello	Desdemona	The Public Theater
2012	The Heiress	Catherine Sloper	Walter Kerr Theatre
2017	The Children's Monologues	13-year-old girl	Carnegie Hall
2023	A Doll's House	Nora Helmer	Hudson Theatre

Music video

Year	Title	Performer(s)	Album	Ref.
2017	"Family Feud"	Jay-Z (featuring Beyoncé)	4:44

Podcast

Year	Title	Role	Platform	Note	Ref.
2023	The Space Within	Dr. Madeline Wyle	Audible	Also executive producer

Virtual reality

Year	Title	Role	Release	Note	Ref.
2018	Spheres: Songs of Spacetime	Narrator	Oculus Rift	Also executive producer

Discography

Year	Title	Album	Ref.
2021	"Battle Hymn of the Republic"	The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
	"Jesus Keeps Takin' Me Higher & Higher"
	"The Sun Will Shine Again"
	"Somebody Touched Me"
	"We are Blest"
	"Don't Give Up (On the Brink of a Miracle)"
	"Puppet Medley (Give a Hug, Jesus Loves Me, Up with a Giggle)"
2022	"The Race is On"	George & Tammy (Original Series Soundtrack)
	"White Lightning"
	"Apartment No. 9"
	"Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad"
	"Why Baby Why"
	"D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
	"A Girl I Used to Know"
	"Rollin’ in My Sweet Baby's Arms"
	"Stand By Your Man"
	"Take Me"
	"I Don’t Wanna Play House"
	"Beneath Still Waters"
	"Something to Brag About"
	"We’re Gonna Hold On"
	"Run, Woman, Run"
	"The Grand Tour"
	"‘Til I Get It Right"
	"We Go Together"
	"You and Me"
	"Two Story House"
	"The Door"
	"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
	"Golden Ring"
	"Help Me Make It Through The Night"
	"Lost Highway"

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Jessica Chastain

Footnotes