Biography
Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and film producer. Known for her roles in films with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012. Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Chastain developed an interest in acting from an early age. In 1998, she made he...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Incidents Around the House
2026
as Ursula / Other Mommy
Eight-year-old Bela lives in a home strained by her parents’ troubled marriage, only to see her life further upended by a sinister entity she calls “O...

Dreams
2025
as Jennifer McCarthy
Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international recognition and a life in the US. Believing his lover, Jennifer, a socialite and ...

Dreams
2025
Executive Producer
Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international recognition and a life in the US. Believing his lover, Jennifer, a socialite and ...

Mothers' Instinct
2024
as Alice
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their liv...

Mothers' Instinct
2024
Producer
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their liv...

Memory
2023
as Sylvia
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her hom...

Armageddon Time
2022
as Maryanne Trump
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins...

The Good Nurse
2022
as Amy Loughren
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

The Forgiven
2022
as Jo Henninger
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors...

The 355
2022
as Mason 'Mace' Brown
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organiza...

The 355
2022
Producer
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organiza...

The Sands Between
2021
as Woman
A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes to realize that the world around her might not be r...

The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021
as Tammy Faye Bakker
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time...

The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021
Producer
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time...

Ava
2020
as Ava
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

Ava
2020
Producer
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020
as Self
What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied und...

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019
as Self
This documentary focuses on the actors and their journey over two summers to create the remake to the original IT, by Stephen King. The documentary or...

Very Ralph
2019
as Self
The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the creation of one of the most successful brands in ...

It Chapter Two
2019
as Beverly Marsh
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from ...

This Changes Everything
2019
as Self
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry...

Dark Phoenix
2019
as Vuk
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in ou...

The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
2019
as Self
A newly edited, feature-length documentary with cast and crew interviews and extensive behind the scenes footage

Woman Walks Ahead
2018
as Catherine Weldon
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off wit...

Half the Picture
2018
as Self (archive footage)
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.

Spheres
2018
as Narrator (Voice)
An immersive journey through the cosmos, its origins and its songs.

Family Feud
2018
as Presidents' interviewer
Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infidelity.

Molly's Game
2017
as Molly Bloom
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a ...

The Zookeeper's Wife
2017
as Antonina Żabińska
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

The Zookeeper's Wife
2017
Executive Producer
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

I Am Jane Doe
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex-trafficking on Backpage...

I Am Jane Doe
2017
Executive Producer
Chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex-trafficking on Backpage...

Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour
2016
as Self - Unapologetic Bitch
Concert special featuring the iconic superstar as she performs in packed arenas around the globe. Featuring new hits and beloved classics that showcas...

Miss Sloane
2016
as Madeline Elizabeth Sloane
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016
as Self
A long form documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's film, "The Martian," featuring interviews with its cast and crew.

The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
as Sara
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Hunts...

I Remember Crimson Peak
2016
as Herself
Four segments that breakdown the filmmaking process of Crimson Peak.

The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
2016
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the colors and themes of Crimson Peak.

Hand Tailored Gothic
2016
as Self
A look at the costume design for Crimson Peak.

Crimson Peak
2015
as Lady Lucille Sharpe
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Tr...

The Martian
2015
as Melissa Lewis
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and ...

Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...

Inside 'Interstellar'
2015
as Self / Murph
Cast and crew of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" discuss project origins, the film's imagery, ambitions, incorporating IMAX footage, the human elem...

A Most Violent Year
2014
as Anna Morales
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the live...

Interstellar
2014
as Murph
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the va...

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014
as Self
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
as Eleanor Rigby
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may ...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014
as Eleanor Rigby
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
Producer
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may ...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014
Producer
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be...

Miss Julie
2014
as Miss Julie
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduc...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
as Eleanor Rigby
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
Producer
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her...

Wilde Salomé
2013
as Self / Salome
Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned and most controversial work SALOME, a scintillating tale of lu...

Salomé
2013
as Salomé
One of Al Pacino's directory experiments, the stage elements of the film were filmed over 5 days in 2011. Initially part of the documentary "Wilde Sal...

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's ...

Seduced and Abandoned
2013
as Self
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of r...

Mama
2013
as Annabel
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that...

Zero Dark Thirty
2012
as Maya
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the ...

The Color of Time
2012
as Mrs. Williams
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

Lawless
2012
as Maggie Beauford
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging....

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012
as Gia (voice)
Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europ...

Touch of Evil
2011
as The Fire Starter
Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

Texas Killing Fields
2011
as Pam Stall
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
Exploring 'The Tree of Life'
2011
as Self
A documentary on Terrence Malick and the making of his film "The Tree of Life."

Take Shelter
2011
as Samantha LaForche
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

The Help
2011
as Celia Foote
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson ...

The Tree of Life
2011
as Mrs. O'Brien
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhoo...

Coriolanus
2011
as Virgilia
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious...

Jolene
2010
as Jolene
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.

The Debt
2010
as Young Rachel Singer
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that...

Agatha Christie's Poirot:Murder on the Orient Express
2010
as 玛丽·德本汉

The Westerner
2010
as Daniel's Mother
About a young boy who runs away from home, trying to find his way to a place he once visited with his mother.

The Westerner
2010
Producer
About a young boy who runs away from home, trying to find his way to a place he once visited with his mother.

Stolen
2009
as Sally Ann
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.

Dark Shadows
2005
as Carolyn Stoddard
The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB Television Network, but was not picked up and has ne...
I Am Not Alone
N/A
Struggling with unbearable migraines, the mother of a little girl thinks she is hallucinating, because she is the only one who sees dangerous monsters...

Plus One
N/A
as Rachel
Rachel ends a relationship and realizes that all of her female friends have gotten married. Except for Summer.

Lear Rex
N/A
as Goneril
An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.

Seducing Ingrid Bergman
N/A
as Ingrid Bergman
An examination of the relationship between film star Ingrid Bergman and wartime photographer Robert Capa.
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
N/A
The film follows two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas
Losing Clementine
N/A
as Clementine
Based on the acclaimed novel by Ashley Ream centering on a brilliant, magnetic and tortured artist who decides she's going to kill herself in 30 days....
Assassination
N/A
as Dorothy Kilgallen
A new take on the JFK conspiracy, centering around Dorothy Kilgallen, one of the most famous voices in media at the time. When Dorothy suspects that L...
The Honeymoon
N/A
Producer
Recounts George Eliot's honeymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage to a handsome young man twenty years her junior. When she agreed to ma...

Painkiller Jane
N/A
Producer
Jane Vasko is a New York City street cop who gets recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a major NYC drug and human trafficking ring. In a near death expe...
I Am Not Alone
N/A
Producer
Struggling with unbearable migraines, the mother of a little girl thinks she is hallucinating, because she is the only one who sees dangerous monsters...

Seducing Ingrid Bergman
N/A
Producer
An examination of the relationship between film star Ingrid Bergman and wartime photographer Robert Capa.
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
N/A
Producer, Story
The film follows two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas
The Maid of Orleans
N/A
Producer
Rebecca Spielman, a young film school graduate travels to Paris to work as the assistant to the brilliant, yet tortured up-and-coming director Sammy L...