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 Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and was in a dance troupe by age thirteen. She began performing in Shakespearean productions all over the Bay area.An actor in a production of "Romeo & Juliet" encouraged her to audition for Juilliard as a drama major. She became a member of "Crew 32" with the help of a scholarship from one of the school's famous alumni, Robin Williams.In her last year at Juilliard, she was offered a holding deal with TV writer/producer John Wells and she eventually worked in three of his TV shows. Jessica continues to do theatre, having played in "The Cherry Orchard", "Rodney's Wife", "Salome" and "Othello". She spends her time between New York and Los Angeles, working in theater, film and TV.In 2011, she had a prolific year in film. She was nominated for and won a number of awards, including a 2012 Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Help (2011).
Bio:
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and was in a dance troupe by age thirteen. She began performing in Shakespearean productions all over the Bay area.An actor in a production of "Romeo & Juliet" encouraged her to audition for Juilliard as a drama major. She became a member of "Crew 32" with the help of a scholarship from one of the school's famous alumni, Robin Williams.In her last year at Juilliard, she was offered a holding deal with TV writer/producer John Wells and she eventually worked in three of his TV shows. Jessica continues to do theatre, having played in "The Cherry Orchard", "Rodney's Wife", "Salome" and "Othello". She spends her time between New York and Los Angeles, working in theater, film and TV.In 2011, she had a prolific year in film. She was nominated for and won a number of awards, including a 2012 Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Help (2011).
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Kathryn Bigelow decided to offer the lead role of Maya to her after seeing an early cut of Coriolanus (2011). Her agents originally declined the role of Maya for her in Zero Dark Thirty (2012). Producer Megan Ellison, who had worked with Chastain on Lawless (2012), gave Kathryn Bigelow Chastain's phone number so she could personally offer her the role. Chastain accepted.Learned German and Krav Maga for The Debt (2010).Has expressed an interest in playing the Batman villain Poison Ivy in a film.One of two daughters of a musician Michael Monasertio and a vegan-chef with a food truck mother Jerri Renee Chastain. Jessica Michelle was the first member of her family to attend college.Was once roommates with Michelle Williams They were both nominated for Oscars in 2012 and have remained good friends.Her idols are Isabelle Huppert, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Emily Watson, Julianne Moore and Marion Cotillard.Owns a three-legged dog named Chaplin.Before her film career, she toured in a stage production of "Othello" with Philip Seymour Hoffman.Often mistaken for Bryce Dallas Howard. In June 2015, Chastain posted a video of Howard on her Instagram account lip-syncing to the song "I am not Jessica Chastain", from a video created by YouTube user legolambs called "JESSICA CHASTAIN: The Musical (Bryce Dallas Howard)" (also released in June 2015).Plays the ukulele.Has permanently saved a voice mail from director Kathryn Bigelow in which she learned she had been chosen to play the role of Maya in Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The message came on November 21, 2011 at 1:04 p.m.Was personally handpicked by Al Pacino to play opposite him as the title character of the play 'Salome'. Pacino later recommended her to Terrence Malick, who gave her an audition for The Tree of Life (2011).Christopher Nolan sent an assistant to Ireland, where she was filming Miss Julie (2014), with a script for Interstellar (2014) watermarked with Chastain's name. Chastain was not allowed to keep the script after she read it."Chastain" is her mother's maiden name.For A Most Violent Year (2014), she thought that her character, Anna Morales, would only wear Armani and wrote to the fashion house to request that they lend their costumes to the film. They obliged, therefore every outfit that her character wears is vintage Armani from 1981.Learned the piano for Crimson Peak (2015) and performed all songs in the movie by herself.Refuses to discuss her true age with the public. She considers acknowledging her true age as limiting her choices and offers of acting roles.Her grandmother took her to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when she was just 7 years old, sparking the early acting bug in her. Her grandmother, Marilyn, was introduced to the world when she accompanied Jessica to the 2012 Academy Awards.Based her performance of Annabel in Mama (2013) on Crystal Castles singer Alice Glass.Was originally cast in Iron Man 3 (2013) as Maya Hansen but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.Interviewed Marion Cotillard for Elle's Women In Hollywood issue. (2013).She was estranged from her biological father, Michael Monasterio, all her life.For her role in The Help (2011), she modeled her character and her high-pitched voice after the mother of author Kathryn Stockett and visited Sugar Ditch, Tennessee, in preparation for the role of Celia Foote.During a July 2019 interview, Jessica Chastain said that she often gets mistaken for fellow actress Bryce Dallas Howard. Chastain told a story about a time when Chastain herself mistook a magazine photo of Howard for one of Chastain, and another story about a time when she (Chastain) saw Bryce's father, Ron Howard, in a store and he momentarily mistook her for his daughter.Holds the distinction of twice appearing in the top two films at the American box office in one weekend. This occurred on the weekend of 18-21 January 2013, when Zero Dark Thirty (2012) dropped to the number two position as her other film, Mama (2013), ascended to the top spot. This made Chastain the first woman in nearly 50 years to have the leading role in the top two films at the box office. This also occurred on the weekend of 2-4 September 2011, when The Help (2011) was the number one film in America, and another film starring Chastain, The Debt (2010), took the number two position, though her roles in these two films were supporting ones.As of 2016, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Tree of Life (2011), The Help (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and The Martian (2015).(June 10, 2017) Married her boyfriend of five years Gian Luca Pasi De Preposulo in his home country. The wedding took place in the northern Italian city of Treviso at the Passi de Preposulo family estate Villa Tiepolo Passi, which is less than an hour north of Venice. The wedding was attended by long-time best friend and actress, Jess Weixler, Anne Hathaway and her husband Adam Shulman, Edgar Ram��rez, Emily Blunt and many others.In order to gain weight for the role of Celia Foote in The Help (2011), she ate soy ice cream melted in the microwave.She was noticed at Juilliard by actress Marthe Keller, who recommended her to Al Pacino. He then cast her in the lead role of Salome in his play, "Salome", and his long-awaited epic movie of the same name, Salome (2013).Had a younger sister, Juliet Chastain (a.k.a. Juliet Christina Monasterio; December 13, 1978 - May 20, 2003), who committed suicide by gunshot.Ralph Fiennes is her favorite actor.Is a fan of Marion Cotillard and has publicly expressed her desire to work with her.She filmed A Most Violent Year (2014), and had to fly back and forth to New York to play an American, in detail, a gangster's daughter in the 80s, while she was playing an early 20th century English Victorian woman in Crimson Peak (2015), a huge difference and versatility.Purchased a Greenwich Village co-op apt. for $1.2 million to live in while on Broadway during the run of "The Heiress". (2012).Attended the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York City and was in the graduating class of her best friend, Jess Weixler.Completed work on The Color of Time (2012) in one day.Ned Benson wrote the part of Eleanor Rigby specifically for her.Has worked with James McAvoy in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby trilogy, Dark Phoenix and IT Chapter 2. During an interview while promoting IT Chapter 2 James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain said they'd like to work together again and become a memorable cinema pairing.Is a vegan and was named PETA's 2012 sexiest vegetarian (June 28, 2012).Has starred alongside Jason Clarke in 3 movies: Texas Killing Fields (2011), Lawless (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012).After Javier Bardem left A Most Violent Year (2014) she wrote director J.C. Chandor an impassioned three page letter asking him to consider Oscar Isaac for the lead role. Chandor replied back almost immediately with an email saying he was already considering Isaac.Good friends with Michael Urie. They were both members of the Juilliard School's Drama Division's Group 32.Jessica's paternal grandfather was of Basque and Castilian/Spanish descent. The rest of her ancestry is one eighth Greek, as well as English, German, French, Dutch, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish. Two of Jessica's paternal great-grandparents, Antonio Astoreca Monasterio and Ramona Egurrola Basa?ez, were emigrants from Spain (of Basque and Castilian ancestry). One of her paternal great-grandfathers, Ernest John Thomas (originally "Anastaciou"), was Greek.Celebrated her birthday, while filming Crimson Peak (2015) in Toronto and invited a few close friends to her party, among the guests was Tom Hiddleston, with whom she did "ping-pong matches, crazy dancing, and karaoke", as both revealed in an interview.Was originally cast in Diana (2013) as Princess Diana but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.Director Guillermo del Toro gave her the script for Crimson Peak (2015) after working with her on Mama (2013) and thought she would play the lead role, Edith. After reading the script Chastain asked to play the character of Lucille, which she thought as more interesting and challenging which del Toro agreed to."The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright and "Osama Bin Laden" by Michael Scheuer are two of the many books she researched in preparation for her role as CIA operative Maya in Zero Dark Thirty (2012).Changed her published birthdate from March 24, 1977 to March 29, 1981 in order to conceal her actual age. The media found out she was lying in 2012.The Sopranos (1999) is her favorite television show.Contessa Passi di Prepossulo by marriage, a title of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, then of the (Bonapartist) Kingdom of Italy, then of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and finally of the Kingdom of Italy. |
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Jessica Chastain |
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Actress,Producer,Soundtrack (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actress,Producer,Soundtrack |
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Actress,Producer,Soundtrack |
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74 |
| Last update: |
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| Height: |
5' 4' (1.63 m) |
| Biography: |
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fire |
| Trivia: |
Kathryn Bigelow decided to offer the lead role of Maya to her after seeing an early cut of Coriolanus (2011). Her agents originally declined the role of Maya for her in Zero Dark Thirty (2012). Producer Megan Ellison, who had worked with Chastain on Lawless (2012), gave Kathryn Bigelow Chastain's phone number so she could personally offer her the role. Chastain accepted.Learned German and Krav Maga for The Debt (2010).Has expressed an interest in playing the Batman villain Poison Ivy in a film.One of two daughters of a musician Michael Monasertio and a vegan-chef with a food truck mother Jerri Renee Chastain. Jessica Michelle was the first member of her family to attend college.Was once roommates with Michelle Williams They were both nominated for Oscars in 2012 and have remained good friends.Her idols are Isabelle Huppert, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Emily Watson, Julianne Moore and Marion Cotillard.Owns a three-legged dog named Chaplin.Before her film career, she toured in a stage production of "Othello" with Philip Seymour Hoffman.Often mistaken for Bryce Dallas Howard. In June 2015, Chastain posted a video of Howard on her Instagram account lip-syncing to the song "I am not Jessica Chastain", from a video created by YouTube user legolambs called "JESSICA CHASTAIN: The Musical (Bryce Dallas Howard)" (also released in June 2015).Plays the ukulele.Has permanently saved a voice mail from director Kathryn Bigelow in which she learned she had been chosen to play the role of Maya in Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The message came on November 21, 2011 at 1:04 p.m.Was personally handpicked by Al Pacino to play opposite him as the title character of the play 'Salome'. Pacino later recommended her to Terrence Malick, who gave her an audition for The Tree of Life (2011).Christopher Nolan sent an assistant to Ireland, where she was filming Miss Julie (2014), with a script for Interstellar (2014) watermarked with Chastain's name. Chastain was not allowed to keep the script after she read it."Chastain" is her mother's maiden name.For A Most Violent Year (2014), she thought that her character, Anna Morales, would only wear Armani and wrote to the fashion house to request that they lend their costumes to the film. They obliged, therefore every outfit that her character wears is vintage Armani from 1981.Learned the piano for Crimson Peak (2015) and performed all songs in the movie by herself.Refuses to discuss her true age with the public. She considers acknowledging her true age as limiting her choices and offers of acting roles.Her grandmother took her to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when she was just 7 years old, sparking the early acting bug in her. Her grandmother, Marilyn, was introduced to the world when she accompanied Jessica to the 2012 Academy Awards.Based her performance of Annabel in Mama (2013) on Crystal Castles singer Alice Glass.Was originally cast in Iron Man 3 (2013) as Maya Hansen but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.Interviewed Marion Cotillard for Elle's Women In Hollywood issue. (2013).She was estranged from her biological father, Michael Monasterio, all her life.For her role in The Help (2011), she modeled her character and her high-pitched voice after the mother of author Kathryn Stockett and visited Sugar Ditch, Tennessee, in preparation for the role of Celia Foote.During a July 2019 interview, Jessica Chastain said that she often gets mistaken for fellow actress Bryce Dallas Howard. Chastain told a story about a time when Chastain herself mistook a magazine photo of Howard for one of Chastain, and another story about a time when she (Chastain) saw Bryce's father, Ron Howard, in a store and he momentarily mistook her for his daughter.Holds the distinction of twice appearing in the top two films at the American box office in one weekend. This occurred on the weekend of 18-21 January 2013, when Zero Dark Thirty (2012) dropped to the number two position as her other film, Mama (2013), ascended to the top spot. This made Chastain the first woman in nearly 50 years to have the leading role in the top two films at the box office. This also occurred on the weekend of 2-4 September 2011, when The Help (2011) was the number one film in America, and another film starring Chastain, The Debt (2010), took the number two position, though her roles in these two films were supporting ones.As of 2016, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Tree of Life (2011), The Help (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and The Martian (2015).(June 10, 2017) Married her boyfriend of five years Gian Luca Pasi De Preposulo in his home country. The wedding took place in the northern Italian city of Treviso at the Passi de Preposulo family estate Villa Tiepolo Passi, which is less than an hour north of Venice. The wedding was attended by long-time best friend and actress, Jess Weixler, Anne Hathaway and her husband Adam Shulman, Edgar Ram��rez, Emily Blunt and many others.In order to gain weight for the role of Celia Foote in The Help (2011), she ate soy ice cream melted in the microwave.She was noticed at Juilliard by actress Marthe Keller, who recommended her to Al Pacino. He then cast her in the lead role of Salome in his play, "Salome", and his long-awaited epic movie of the same name, Salome (2013).Had a younger sister, Juliet Chastain (a.k.a. Juliet Christina Monasterio; December 13, 1978 - May 20, 2003), who committed suicide by gunshot.Ralph Fiennes is her favorite actor.Is a fan of Marion Cotillard and has publicly expressed her desire to work with her.She filmed A Most Violent Year (2014), and had to fly back and forth to New York to play an American, in detail, a gangster's daughter in the 80s, while she was playing an early 20th century English Victorian woman in Crimson Peak (2015), a huge difference and versatility.Purchased a Greenwich Village co-op apt. for $1.2 million to live in while on Broadway during the run of "The Heiress". (2012).Attended the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York City and was in the graduating class of her best friend, Jess Weixler.Completed work on The Color of Time (2012) in one day.Ned Benson wrote the part of Eleanor Rigby specifically for her.Has worked with James McAvoy in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby trilogy, Dark Phoenix and IT Chapter 2. During an interview while promoting IT Chapter 2 James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain said they'd like to work together again and become a memorable cinema pairing.Is a vegan and was named PETA's 2012 sexiest vegetarian (June 28, 2012).Has starred alongside Jason Clarke in 3 movies: Texas Killing Fields (2011), Lawless (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012).After Javier Bardem left A Most Violent Year (2014) she wrote director J.C. Chandor an impassioned three page letter asking him to consider Oscar Isaac for the lead role. Chandor replied back almost immediately with an email saying he was already considering Isaac.Good friends with Michael Urie. They were both members of the Juilliard School's Drama Division's Group 32.Jessica's paternal grandfather was of Basque and Castilian/Spanish descent. The rest of her ancestry is one eighth Greek, as well as English, German, French, Dutch, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish. Two of Jessica's paternal great-grandparents, Antonio Astoreca Monasterio and Ramona Egurrola Basa?ez, were emigrants from Spain (of Basque and Castilian ancestry). One of her paternal great-grandfathers, Ernest John Thomas (originally "Anastaciou"), was Greek.Celebrated her birthday, while filming Crimson Peak (2015) in Toronto and invited a few close friends to her party, among the guests was Tom Hiddleston, with whom she did "ping-pong matches, crazy dancing, and karaoke", as both revealed in an interview.Was originally cast in Diana (2013) as Princess Diana but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.Director Guillermo del Toro gave her the script for Crimson Peak (2015) after working with her on Mama (2013) and thought she would play the lead role, Edith. After reading the script Chastain asked to play the character of Lucille, which she thought as more interesting and challenging which del Toro agreed to."The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright and "Osama Bin Laden" by Michael Scheuer are two of the many books she researched in preparation for her role as CIA operative Maya in Zero Dark Thirty (2012).Changed her published birthdate from March 24, 1977 to March 29, 1981 in order to conceal her actual age. The media found out she was lying in 2012.The Sopranos (1999) is her favorite television show.Contessa Passi di Prepossulo by marriage, a title of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, then of the (Bonapartist) Kingdom of Italy, then of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and finally of the Kingdom of Italy. |
| Trademarks: |
Red hair
Dimple chin
Often plays substantially younger than her actual age |
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I was a difficult child because I wanted to be the mom.
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I don't look modern. I'm not the girl that would walk into the room and everyone goes, "Oh!"
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[on being directed by Terrence Malick in The Tree of Life (2011)] I would have pages of what we were going to convey, but I could say the words in any order I wanted, and sometimes we would say the same thing in many different ways... I think he will always be the greatest teacher I know. I'm trying, in the Terrence Malick kind of way of not planning and just allowing life to happen, trying to find these moments that mirror life and [are] not preconceived in any way. So that has changed me. I try to keep that freshness in things we've done.
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[on rehearsals] They'll say, "Save it, save it". I tell them: "Don't worry. I have a bottomless well of tears."
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Sometimes I'll have a meeting with someone and they'll say, "Oh, Sean Penn was just here and was saying the nicest things about you". You know, when you're applying for a job? These are like my recommendations. It's nice. |
| Salaries: |
It Chapter Two (2019) - $2,500,000
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Woman Walks Ahead (2018) - $700 .000
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The Martian (2015) - $7,000,000
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Take Shelter (2011) - $100 a day |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Soundtrack |
| Others works: |
(August 2005) Played "Anya" in "The Cherry Orchard", a play by Anton Chekhov (Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA), with Michelle Williams, Linda Emond, Ritchie Coster & Chris Messina.
(December 2005) Played "Lee" in "Rodn |
| Spouse: |
Gian Luca Pasi De Preposulo (June 10, 2017 - present) (2 children) |
| Children: |
Giulietta PreposuloAgustus Preposulo |
| Parents: |
Michael Monasterio
Jerri Renee Hastey
Michael Hastey |
| Relatives: |
Juliet Chastain (Sibling) |
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