Jessica Chastain Biography

Jessica Chastain born Jessica Michelle Chastain is an American actress and film producer. Known for her roles in films with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.

Jessica Chastain Age

Jessica is 45 years old as of 2022. He was born on 24 March 1977, in Sacramento, California, United States. He celebrates his birthday every 24 of March every year.

Jessica Chastain Height and Weight

Jessica stands at an average height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 meters). She weighs 56 Kilograms (123 lbs). She has blonde hair and brown eyes. Her other body measurements are 36-24-35 Inches.

Jessica Chastain Education

Details pertaining to her educational background are currently unavailable. This information is however currently under review and will soon be updated.

Jessica Chastain Family, Parents, Siblings

Jessica was born and raised by her parents in Sacramento, California. She is the loving daughter of Jerri Renee Hastey (née Chastain), her mother, and rock musician Michael Monasterio, her father. Her parents were both teenagers when she was born. Chastain is reluctant to publicly discuss her family background; she was estranged from Monasterio, who died in 2013, and has said that no father is listed on her birth certificate.

She has two sisters and two brothers. Her younger sister Juliet died by suicide in 2003, aged 24, following years of drug addiction. Chastain was raised in Sacramento by her mother and stepfather, Michael Hastey, a firefighter. She says her stepfather was the first person to make her feel secure. She shares a close bond with her maternal grandmother, Marilyn, whom she credits as someone who “always believed in me”.

Jessica Chastain Young

Chastain first developed an interest in acting at age seven, after her grandmother took her to a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She would regularly put on amateur shows with other children, and considered herself to be their artistic director. As a student at the El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento, Chastain struggled academically.

She was a loner and considered herself a misfit in school, eventually finding an outlet in the performing arts. She has described how she used to miss school to read Shakespeare, whose plays she became enamored with after attending the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with her classmates. With too many absences during her senior year in school, Chastain did not qualify for graduation but later obtained an adult diploma. She later attended Sacramento City College from 1996 to 1997, during which she was a member of the institution’s debate team. Describing her early childhood, she recalled:

I [grew up] with a single mother who worked very hard to put food on our table. We did not have money. There were many nights when we had to go to sleep without eating. It was a very difficult upbringing. Things weren’t easy for me growing up.

In 1998, 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. The production led her to audition for the Juilliard School in New York City, where she was soon accepted and granted a scholarship funded by actor Robin Williams.

In her first year at the school, Chastain suffered from anxiety and was worried about being dropped from the program, spending most of her time reading and watching films. She later remarked that her participation in a successful production of The Seagull during her second year helped build her confidence. She graduated from the school with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003.

Jessica Chastain Husband and Children

Chastain was in a long-term relationship with writer-director Ned Benson that ended in 2010. In 2012, she began dating Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, an Italian count of the Passi de Preposulo noble family, who is an executive for the fashion brand Moncler. On June 10, 2017, she married Preposulo at his family’s estate in Carbonera, Italy. In 2018, the couple had a daughter through surrogacy. They later had a second daughter. They reside in New York City.

Jessica Chastain Salary

Details pertaining to her annual earnings are currently unavailable. This information is however currently under review and will soon be updated.

Jessica Chastain Net Worth

Jessica has an estimated net worth of $50 million dollars as of 2021. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as an Actress. Through her various sources of income, she has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Jessica Chastain Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Chastain.

Jessica Chastain Wiki

• Full Names: Jessica Michelle Chastain
• Popular As: Jessica Chastain
• Gender: Female
• Occupation / Profession: Actress and Film Producer
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: White
• Religion: Not Known
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Jessica Chastain Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 45 years old as of 2022
• Zodiac Sign: Aries
• Date of Birth: 24 March 1977
• Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, United States
• Birthday: 24 March

Jessica Chastain Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: 36-24-35 Inches
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 4 inches
• Weight: 56 Kilograms
• Eye Color: Brown
• Hair Color: Blonde
• Shoe Size: Not Available
• Dress Size: Not Available
• Breast Size: 36 Inches
• Waist Size: 24 Inches
• Hip Size: 35 Inches

Jessica Chastain Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Michael Monasterio
• Mother: Jerri Renee Hastey
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): 4
• Marital Status: Married
• Spouse / Husband: Married to Preposulo
• Children: 2

Jessica Chastain Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $50 million
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: Actress and Film Producer

Jessica Chastain Career

After struggling for a breakthrough in film, Chastain had six releases in 2011 and garnered wide recognition for several of them. The first of the roles was as the wife of Michael Shannon’s character in Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter, a drama about a troubled father who tries to protect his family from what he believes is an impending storm.

The film was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and critic Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph noted how much Chastain’s supporting part aided the narrative. In Coriolanus, an adaptation of the Shakespearian tragedy from actor-director Ralph Fiennes, she played Virgilia.

Her next role was opposite Brad Pitt, as the loving mother of three children in Terrence Malick’s experimental drama The Tree of Life, which she had filmed in 2008. Chastain signed on to the film without receiving a traditional screenplay from Malick, and she improvised several scenes and dialogues with Pitt.

She considered her part to be “the embodiment of grace and the spirit world”; in preparation, she practiced meditation, studied paintings of the Madonna, and read poems by Thomas Aquinas. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival to a polarized reception from the audience, though it was praised by critics and won the Palme d’Or. The critic Justin Chang termed the film a “hymn to the glory of creation, an exploratory, often mystifying […] poem” and credited Chastain for playing her part with “heartrending vulnerability”.

Chastain’s biggest success of the year came with the drama The Help, co-starring Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Emma Stone, which was based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name. She played Celia Foote, an aspiring socialite in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, who develops a friendship with her Black maid (played by Spencer).

Chastain was drawn to Foote’s antiracist stand, and connected with her energy and enthusiasm; in preparation, she watched the films of Marilyn Monroe and researched the history of Tunica, Mississippi, where her character was raised. The Help grossed $216 million at the box office to become her most widely seen film to that point.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times praised the chemistry between Chastain and Spencer, and Roger Ebert credited her for being “unaffected and infectious”. The ensemble of The Help won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast, and Chastain received Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, all of which she lost to Spencer.

Chastain’s final two roles of the year were in Wilde Salomé, a documentary based on her 2006 production of Salome, and the critically panned crime-thriller Texas Killing Fields. Her film roles in 2011, particularly in The Help, Take Shelter and The Tree of Life, won her awards from several critics’ organizations.

Two of Chastain’s films in 2012 premiered at the 65th Cannes Film Festival—the animated comedy Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and the crime drama Lawless. In the former, which marked the third installment in the Madagascar series, she voiced Gia the Jaguar with an Italian accent.

With global revenues of $747 million, the film ranks as her highest-grossing release. In Lawless, based on Matt Bondurant’s Prohibition-era novel The Wettest County in the World, she played a dancer who becomes embroiled in a conflict between three bootlegging brothers (played by Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jason Clarke).

The film received generally positive reviews, with Richard Corliss finding Chastain to be filled with “poised, seductive gravity”. In an experimental biopic of the author C. K. Williams, entitled The Color of Time (2012), directed by the New York University students of actor James Franco, she played the mother of the young Williams.

A short part Chastain had filmed for Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (2012) was edited out of the final film, and due to scheduling conflicts, she dropped out of the action films Oblivion and Iron Man 3 (both 2013). She instead made her Broadway debut in a revival of the 1947 play The Heiress, playing the role of Catherine Sloper, a naïve young girl who transforms into a powerful woman.

Chastain was initially reluctant to take the role, fearing the high anxiety she had faced during her early stage performances. She ultimately agreed after finding a connection to Sloper, explaining: “she’s painfully uncomfortable and I used to be that”. The production was staged at the Walter Kerr Theatre from November 2012 to February 2013.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times was disappointed in Chastain’s performance, writing that she was “over signaling the thoughts within” and that her delivery of dialogue was sometimes flat. The Heiress emerged as a sleeper hit at the box office. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty was Chastain’s final film release of 2012.

It is a partly fictionalized account of the decade-long manhunt for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 attacks; she played Maya, a CIA intelligence analyst who helped kill bin, Laden. Chastain was unable to meet the undercover agent on whom her character was based, and so she relied on the screenwriter Mark Boal’s research.

The difficult subject matter made it unpleasant for her to film; she suffered from depression during production, and once walked off the set in tears because she was unable to continue. Zero Dark Thirty received critical acclaim but was controversy over its scenes of torture that were shown providing useful intelligence in the search for bin Laden. Roger Ebert took note of Chastain’s versatility and likened her ability and range to that of Meryl Streep.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, “Chastain is a marvel. She plays Maya like a gathering storm in an indelible, implosive performance that cuts so deep we can feel her nerve endings.” For her performance, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and received Academy, BAFTA, and SAG nominations for Best Actress.

Chastain took on the lead role of a musician who is forced to care for her boyfriend’s troubled nieces in the horror film Mama (2013), directed by Andy Muschietti. She was drawn to the idea of playing a woman drastically different from the “perfect mother” roles she had previously played, and she based her character’s look on the singer Alice Glass.

The critic Richard Roeper considered her performance to be proof of her being one of the finest actors of her generation. During the film’s opening weekend in North America, Chastain became the first performer in fifteen years to have leading roles in the top two films (Mama and Zero Dark Thirty) at the box office.

She then starred as the titular character of a depressed woman who separates from her husband (played by James McAvoy) following a tragic incident in the drama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), which she also produced. The writer-director Ned Benson initially wrote the story from the perspective of Rigby’s husband, then wrote a separate version from Rigby’s perspective on the insistence of Chastain.

Three versions of the film—Him, Her, and Them—were released. It did not find a wide audience, but the critic A. O. Scott praised Chastain for “short-circuit[ing] conventional distinctions between tough and vulnerable, showing exquisite control even when her character is losing it, and keeping her balance even when the movie pitches and rolls toward melodrama”.

In 2021, Chastain reunited with Oscar Isaac in Scenes from a Marriage, HBO’s English-language remake of Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 Swedish miniseries of the same name. Lucy Mangan of The Guardian noted that the chemistry between Chastain and Isaac helped portray the complex relationship between their characters.

Chastain and Andrew Garfield then starred as the televangelists’ Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker in the drama The Eyes of Tammy Faye. She also served as a producer after she had acquired the rights to Faye’s life in 2012. David Fear of Rolling Stone considered Chastain to be the “only reason to see this curiously tepid biopic” and praised her for rising above the script to humanize Faye.

That same year, she reunited with Ralph Fiennes in The Forgiven, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne. Steve Pond of The Wrap praised Chastain and Fiennes for finding “rich nuance” in their characters’ misdeeds. Chastain received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for her performances in both Scenes from a Marriage and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, in addition to receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the latter.

For The 355 (2022), a female-led spy film, Chastain and her co-stars Penélope Cruz, Fan Bingbing, and Lupita Nyong’o pitched the idea to prospective buyers at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival; it was eventually picked up by Universal Pictures and produced by Chastain and Simon Kinberg. The film received negative reviews from critics, who criticized it as generic and unremarkable. It did not perform well commercially.

Chastain was set to make her West End debut in 2020 with an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House at the Playhouse Theatre. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the production has been postponed to an undisclosed date. Among her other acting commitments, Chastain will star alongside Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse, a thriller about the pursuit of serial killer Charles Cullen, and portray country singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette in the biographical miniseries, George & Tammy. As a producer, she will reunite with Octavia Spencer in a comedy film, for which she negotiated a higher salary for Spencer. She will also serve as executive producer on a television adaptation of Alice Feeney’s thriller novel His & Hers.

Jessica Chastain Movies and Tv Shows

Films

The following are movies that Jessica has been featured in:

• 2008 Jolene
• 2009 Stolen
• 2010 The Westerner
• 2010 The Debt
• 2011 Take Shelter
• 2011 Coriolanus
• 2011 The Tree of Life
• 2011 The Help
• 2011 Wilde Salomé
• 2011 Texas Killing Fields
• 2012 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
• 2012 Lawless
• 2012 The Color of Time
• 2012 Zero Dark Thirty
• 2013 Mama
• 2013 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[d]
• 2014 Miss Julie
• 2014 Interstellar
• 2014 A Most Violent Year
• 2015 Unity
• 2015 The Martian
• 2015 Crimson Peak
• 2016 The Huntsman: Winter’s War
• 2016 Miss Sloane
• 2017 I Am Jane Doe
• 2017 The Zookeeper’s Wife
• 2017 Molly’s Game
• 2017 Woman Walks Ahead
• 2018 This Changes Everything
• 2019 Dark Phoenix
• 2019 It Chapter Two
• 2020 Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
• 2020 Ava
• 2021 The Forgiven
• 2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• 2022 The 355
• TBA The Good Nurse

Tv Shows

The following are television shows that Jessica has been featured in:

• 2004 Dark Shadows
• 2004 ER
• 2004 Veronica Mars
• 2005–2006 Law & Order: Trial by Jury
• 2006 Close to Home
• 2006 The Evidence
• 2006 Blackbeard
• 2007 ‘Til Death
• 2007 Journeyman
• 2010 Agatha Christie’s Poirot
• 2016 Animals.
• 2018 Saturday Night Live
• 2021 Scenes from a Marriage
• 2022 Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
• 2022 George & Tammy

Jessica Chastain Acting credits and awards

According to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes and the box-office site Box Office Mojo, Chastain’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films are Take Shelter (2011), Coriolanus (2011), The Tree of Life (2011), The Help (2011), Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Mama (2013), Interstellar (2014), A Most Violent Year (2014), The Martian (2015), Miss Sloane (2016), Molly’s Game (2017), and It Chapter Two (2019). Among her stage roles, she has appeared in a Broadway revival of The Heiress in 2012.

Chastain has been nominated for three Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress for The Help and Best Actress for Zero Dark Thirty and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Zero Dark Thirty, and has been nominated six more times: Best Actress in a Drama for Miss Sloane, Molly’s Game, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the Best Supporting Actress for The Help and A Most Violent Year and the Best Actress for a Miniseries or Television Film for Scenes from a Marriage.

Frequently Asked Questions About Jessica Chastain

Who is Jessica?

Michelle Chastain is an American actress and film producer. Known for her roles in films with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.

How old is Jessica?

Jessica is 45 years old as of 2022. He was born on 24 March 1977, in Sacramento, California, United States. He celebrates his birthday every 24 of March every year.

How tall is Jessica?

Jessica stands at an average height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 meters). She weighs 56 Kilograms (123 lbs). She has blonde hair and brown eyes. Her other body measurements are 36-24-35 Inches.

Is Jessica married?

Chastain was in a long-term relationship with writer-director Ned Benson that ended in 2010. In 2012, she began dating Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, an Italian count of the Passi de Preposulo noble family, who is an executive for the fashion brand Moncler. On June 10, 2017, she married Preposulo at his family’s estate in Carbonera, Italy. In 2018, the couple had a daughter through surrogacy. They later had a second daughter. They reside in New York City.

How much is Jessica worth?

Jessica has an estimated net worth of $50 million dollars as of 2021. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as an Actress. Through her various sources of income, she has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

How much does Jessica make?

Details pertaining to her annual earnings are currently unavailable. This information is however currently under review and will soon be updated.

Where does Jessica live?

Chastain is a resident of New York City, USA, we shall upload pictures of her house as soon as we have them.

Is Jessica dead or alive?

Jessica is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.

Where is Jessica Now?

To get her latest updates, visit her official social media accounts listed below.

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