Jessica Chastain Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Jessica Chastain
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Jessica Chastain’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards she has won and view photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF JESSICA CHASTAIN

Age: 44 years old
Height: 163 cm
Born in: Sacramento, California, USA
Born on: 24/03/1977

BIOGRAPHY OF JESSICA CHASTAIN

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California on March 24, 1977. The first of five children, he lives with his mother (a vegan chef like her, to whom he recently gave a van to sell street food) and his firefighter stepfather: the surname he uses is that of his mother.

The passion for the world of entertainment was born when, at the age of seven, the grandmother to whom she is very attached (and who wanted to accompany her at the 2012 and 2013 Oscars Nights) leads her to see the musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”: two years later he will begin to attend dance classes, and during his adolescence he begins to act in the theater in numerous Shakespearean productions, arriving in 1998 to work with the company of professionals TheaterWorks, operating in the San Francisco area, in a staging of “Romeo and Juliet” which will be a springboard for the actress.

Pushed by a colleague, in fact, Jessica attempts admission to the prestigious school Julliard, where he enters thanks to the scholarship set up by the former student Robin Williams and where he joined the acting Group 32.

After graduation, in 2003, he moved to Los Angeles in search of work: after some effort, he made his debut on the small screen in the pilot of the remake never take off of the television series Dark Shadows (the same reach to the cinema after a decade from Tim Burton), and then appears in the show as ER, Veronica Mars is Law and Order, continuing to act in the theater and getting the role of “Salomè” in a staging signed by Al Pacino which will then be told in the 2011 film Wilde Salome.

At Cinema Jessica Chastain begins in 2008 with a starring role in Jolene, adaptation of a novel by EL Doctorow directed by Dan Ireland which immediately earned her the award for best actress al Seattle International Film Festival.

In 2010 he is among the protagonists of The debt, thriller by John Madden, but 2011 is the year of his explosion, thanks to his participation in films such as Take Shelter, the Coriolanus directed by his favorite actor, Ralph Fiennes (the actresses are Isabelle Huppert, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton), Texas Killing Fields, The Help is The Tree of Life of Terrence Malick. And the awards and prizes for these interpretations will be numerous.

Became one of the most requested actresses, in 2012 the Chastain work again with Malick in To the Wonder, but her part will be cut at the montage, she is the female lead of Lawless and, above all, the Maya of the Zero Dark Thirty of Kathryn Bigelow: a part that gives her nominations for Oscars, SAGs, BAFTAs and the victory of a Golden Globe.

The following year, the redhead actress gives herself a horror parenthesis as the protagonist of The mother (produced from Guillermo del Toro who will then direct it in the Gothic Crimson Peak) and plays the main role of the diptych The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (directed by his ex Ned Benson, who wrote it with their story in mind), in which he is alongside James McAvoy.

After being called by Christopher Nolan for Interstellar, Jessica Chastain gets again an AI nomination Golden Globe for its interpretation in A Most Violent Year of JC Chandor, in which he acts alongside Oscar Isaacs.

Passionate about yoga, la Chastain plays the ukulele and has been linked with the count since 2013 Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, manager of Moncler.