Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain at Comic Con (2015)

Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977 in Sacramento , California ) is an American theater and film actress . In addition to her work at the theater, she has appeared in more than 40 film and television productions since the mid-2000s  , mostly dramas . She gained fame especially in 2011, when she was seen in seven films (including An Open Account , Take Shelter , The Tree of Life and The Help ), for which she received multiple awards. For her leading role in the political thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012) she won a. a. a Golden Globe Award .

Life

Training and first television offers

The daughter of Jerri Renee Hastey (nee Chastain) and rock musician Michael Monasterio was born Jessica Michelle Howard in Northern California, where she grew up with four siblings. Chastain doesn't like to talk about her childhood in public; she describes her relationship with her father as distant. According to her own statement, no father is named on her birth certificate. Chastain had a younger sister from Monasterio's relationship with her mother, who, however, committed suicide in 2003 after years of drug abuse.

Chastain was raised after her parents separated from her stepfather, a firefighter. She says she is very grateful to her stepfather for being “one of the greatest people” she knows and for being the first to make her feel safe. 

Chastain struggled at school and did not graduate from high school . As a child, however, she found pleasure in acting by attending a performance of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with David Cassidy in the title role. At the same time she devoted herself to dance and joined a dance troupe at the age of 13. She later began acting, using her mother's maiden name as her stage name and henceforth performing as Jessica Chastain. Her family had no show business connections and therefore largely withheld information about her film and television careers.

Chastain says of your school days: “I thought I was just not an intelligent person because my grades were so bad. There are kids out there who aren't good at school - I hope they never think they're stupid. It just depends on finding out where your interests lie and what you're good at. "

In 1998, Chastain was given the leading female role in a production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet in Mountain View, California . She then attended the Juilliard School Conservatory in New York for four years . Her studies there was made possible by a scholarship initiated by Robin Williams . Before completing her acting training in 2003, Chastain was discovered at an in-school audition in Los Angeles and signed by television producer John Wells. Wells gave her a bigger role in the pilot film Dark Shadows (2004) on the television network The WB . However, the production, which was based on the 1960s television series of the same name , never aired. Chastain then made guest appearances in the Warner Bros between 2004 and 2006 . - TV series Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme , Veronica Mars , Close to Home and The Evidence , while she took on the recurring role of assistant prosecutor Sigrun Borg in the offshoot Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005-2006). Often times, the red-haired actress was chosen for psychotic or eccentric characters. In 2006, Chastain also starred alongside Angus Macfadyen in the TV film Blackbeard - Pirates of the Caribbean .

Theater work and first cinema roles

In parallel with her engagements on television, Chastain continued to play theater. She appeared at the Williamstown Theater Festival in a production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard alongside Linda Emond and Michelle Williams and off-Broadway as the engaged daughter in the drama Rodney's Life (both 2004). Greater attention brought her in 2006 the title role in Oscar Wilde's Salome alongside Al Pacino one in Los Angeles. Director Estelle Parsons had staged the play three years earlier with Marisa Tomei and Pacino on New York's Broadway . In 2009 Chastain was engaged by Peter Sellars for his production of Shakespeare's Othello with John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman . She interpreted the role of Desdemona on stages in Vienna , Bochum and New York.

Compared to Bryce Dallas Howard in terms of appearance , the actress made her cinema debut in Dan Ireland's independent film Jolene, based on the short story of the same name by EL Doctorow, in 2008 . The title role of a 15-year-old orphan girl traveling across the United States for ten years earned Chastain initial critical acclaim and the Seattle International Film Festival's Acting Award . This was followed by other film offers such as John Madden's An Open Account (2010), which should not see its official release in the United States until August 2011. In the historical thriller, Chastain plays a Mossad agent who is supposed to track down a Nazi war criminal in East Berlin in 1965 . The aged character was played by Helen Mirren . In preparation for the part of Rachel Singer, Chastain had trained the martial art Krav Maga , taken German courses and studied literature about the Holocaust .

Film success in 2011

Chastain at the Berlinale 2011

Chastain made her international breakthrough as an actress in 2011, when, in addition to An Open Account, six other film productions started with her in American cinemas . In Jeff Nichols ' drama Take Shelter she was seen as the long-suffering and worried wife of Michael Shannon , who was haunted by apocalyptic visions , while Ralph Fiennes entrusted her with the role of Virgilia in his modern Shakespeare adaptation Coriolanus . In Terrence Malick with the Golden Palm of the film festival in Cannes excellent spiritual and visually stunning film The Tree of Life , she played the gentle, trusting in God wife and mother next to Brad Pitt . In preparation for filming, she read literature on subjects such as consolation, grace and gratitude, portraits of Mary at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and watched films with Lauren Bacall to familiarize herself with the slower speech of the 1950s. She slipped into the supporting role of Celia Foote for Tate Taylor's extremely successful production The Help at the US box office, about the fate of black domestic workers in the US South of the 1960s. The part of the insecure and naive Southern wife, who is rejected by the upscale white society of her hometown and instead befriends her black housekeeper (played by Octavia Spencer ), had Chastain after Marilyn Monroe . Before filming The Help, she had read their biography and watched all of their films in chronological order. She had also tried to gain weight and studied literature and documentaries about the Jim Crow era. The deutsche film-dienst praised her interaction with Octavia Spencer, who added “a highlight to the film with a tragicomic role” . In addition, her Celia is the only unpredictable character in The Help .

In addition, Chastain took up the stage role of Salome in Al Pacino's Wilde Salomé , a documentary film and fiction set, and was seen as a policewoman in Ami Canaan Mann's thriller Texas Killing Fields alongside Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan . Both Coriolanus , The Help , Take Shelter , The Tree of Life and Texas Killing Fields and The Debt released their 2011/2012 numerous film awards one, including the awards for Best Supporting Actress Critics Associations of New York , Los Angeles and the National Society of Film Critics . For her performance in The Help , Chastain received an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination, while her ubiquity in the cinema has been compared to that of Steve Buscemi , who had 40 film roles in the 1990s. In 2012 she spoke the Jaguardame Gia in the animated film Madagascar 3: Escape through Europe , was seen as the object of desire by Tom Hardy in John Hillcoat's historical film Lawless and took the lead role of a young CIA analyst in Kathryn Bigelow's thriller Zero Dark Thirty on the hunt for Osama bin Laden . For the latter part, she has again received numerous film awards, including the National Board of Review Award , the Golden Globe Award and another Oscar nomination.

Jessica Chastain is a vegan. She is known for her sometimes extensive preparations for roles, but is still not considered a method actor . In addition, Chastain was to play the British Princess Diana (1961–1997) in Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Diana, about her love affair with the Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. Negotiations failed, however, and the role was cast to Naomi Watts .

In November 2012, Chastain made her Broadway debut under the direction of Moisés Kaufman, starring Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, opposite Dan Stevens and David Strathairn .

Private life

In June 2017, Chastain and her partner Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo married in Italy.

Plays

year Play role stage
1998 Romeo and Juliet Juliet Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Mountain View)
2004 The Cherry Orchard Anya Williamstown Theater Festival ( Williamstown )
2004 Rodney's Wife lee Playwrights Horizons (New York)
2006 Salome Salome Wadsworth Theater (Los Angeles)
2009 Othello Desdemona Wiener Festwochen
Schauspielhaus Bochum
LAByrinth Theater Company (New York)
2012 The Heiress Catherine Sloper Walter Kerr Theater (New York)

Filmography (selection)

Chastain at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival

Awards

Oscars

Golden Globe

  • 2012 : Nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for The Help
  • 2013 : Award in the category Best Actress - Drama for Zero Dark Thirty
  • 2015 : Nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for A Most Violent Year
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Actress - Drama for Invention of Truth ( Miss Sloane )
  • 2018 : Nomination in the category Best Actress - Drama for Molly's Game - Everything on one card ( Molly's Game )

British Academy Film Award (BAFTA)

Online Film Critics Society Award

  • 2012: Award in the Best Actress category for The Tree of Life
  • 2012: Award in the Best Young Actress category for The Help , The Tree of Life and An Open Account ( The Debt )
  • 2013: Award in the Best Actress category for Zero Dark Thirty

Critics' Choice Movie Award

Golden camera

  • 2019 : Award in the Best Actress International category

Golden Raspberry

National Board of Review Award

Further awards and nominations

  • 2008: Actor Award of the Seattle International Film Festival for Jolene
  • 2011: Austin Film Critics Award for Take Shelter (Best Supporting Actress) and Young Actor Award for Coriolanus , The Help , The Tree of Life , Take Shelter , Texas Killing Fields and An Open Account
  • 2011: Chicago Film Critics Association Award for The Tree of Life (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2011: Hollywood Breakthrough Award for Coriolanus , The Help , The Tree of Life , Take Shelter and An Open Account as well as the Hollywood Film Award together with the actors from The Help
  • 2011: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Coriolanus , An Open Account , The Help , Take Shelter , Texas Killing Fields, and The Tree of Life (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2011: New York Film Critics Circle Award for The Tree of Life , The Help and Take Shelter (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2011: New York Film Critics Online Award for Coriolanus , An Open Account , The Help , Take Shelter , Texas Killing Fields and The Tree of Life (Best New Actress)
  • 2011: Satellite Award for The Tree of Life (Best Supporting Actress) and Special Prize for The Help (together with the acting ensemble)
  • 2011: Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for The Help (together with the acting company)
  • 2011: Special Award from the San Diego Film Critics Society for Coriolanus , An Open Account , The Tree of Life , Take Shelter , The Help and Texas Killing Fields
  • 2011: Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Take Shelter (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2012: Detroit Film Critics Society Award for The Tree of Life , The Help and Take Shelter (Best New Actress)
  • 2012: National Society of Film Critics Award for Take Shelter , The Help and The Tree of Life (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2012: Nevada Film Critics Society Award for An Open Account , The Help , The Tree of Life and Take Shelter (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Take Shelter (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2012: Boston Online Film Critics Association Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Zero Dark Thirty ( Best Actress )
  • 2012: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: St. Louis Film Critics Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Utah Film Critics Association Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)
  • 2012: Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Zero Dark Thirty (Best Actress)

Web links

Commons : Jessica Chastain  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Birth Of Jessica Chastain. In: californiabirthindex.org. California Birth Index, accessed October 8, 2014 .
  2. ^ Tim Walker: Jessica Chastain: The slow road to overnight success . In: The Daily Telegraph , December 29, 2012. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016. 
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Adams, Guy: Red hot: How Jessica Chastain became Hollywood's most wanted at independent.co.uk, October 22, 2011 (accessed January 14, 2012).
  4. ^ Smith, Krista: All is Vanities ... Nothing is Fair . In: Vanity Fair 51 (December 2009), No. 12, p. 205
  5. ↑ Jessica Chastain breaks her silence about father's death. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Jessica Chastain on Her Sister's 2003 Suicide: 'You Never Really Think This Is Going to Happen'. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Jessica Chastain breaks her silence about father's death. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Jessica Chastain on her early life: 'Nobody knows this about me'. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Biography in the Internet Movie Database (English; accessed September 19, 2010)
  10. ↑ Jessica Chastain on her early life: 'Nobody knows this about me'. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  11. ^ De La Vina, Mark: Where Art Thou, Romeo; Ireland? . In: San Jose Mercury News , Apr 21, 1998, p. 10E.
  12. ↑ Henerson, Evan: Estelle Parsons, Unveiled . In: The Daily News of Los Angeles , April 26, 2006, p. U7.
  13. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie: TV newcomer Chastain inks deal at JWP . In: The Hollywood Reporter , August 21, 2003 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  14. ↑ Blackbeard. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Nelson, Rob: Jolene . In: Variety , June 16-22, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  16. ↑ a b c d McKittrick, Christ: Jessica Chastain On How She Managed to Appear in Eight Films in 2011 at dailyactor.com, October 14, 2011 (accessed January 14, 2012).
  17. ↑ Official press kit (PDF; 306 kB) at festival-cannes.com, pp. 6–7 (English; accessed June 13, 2011).
  18. ↑ Hinrichsen, Jens: The Help . In: film-dienst 25/2011 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  19. ^ Robey, Tim: The lavish ubiquity of Jessica Chastain at telegraph.co.uk, October 14, 2011, accessed January 14, 2012.
  20. ↑ Hough, Andrew: Jessica Chastain cast as Princess Diana in new film about Dr Hasnat Khan love affair at telegraph.co.uk, November 7, 2011, accessed January 14, 2012.
  21. ↑ Watts or Theron: Who is the better Diana? from Abendblatt.de, February 10, 2012, accessed on February 12, 2012.
  22. ↑ spiegel.de June 12, 2017: Suddenly Countess
  23. ↑ Golden Camera 2019: Jessica Chastain receives the award for "Best International Actress" . Article dated March 29, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Chastain, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howard, Jessica M. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California, United States