Jessica Chastain's biography

Jessica Michelle Chastain is 45 years old actor born at Sacramento. Jessica was born on Thursday 24th of March 1977. Jessica is often nicknamed as Jess, Jessica N. Howard, Jessica Michelle Chastain, Jessica Chastain. According to year of birth 1977 she belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 24th of March means Jessica is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

Jessica is native english speaker. Jessica is white american. She is citizen of United States of America. Jessica is agnostic. Jessica´s primary profession is to be actor. She is recently known as film producer. She received Golden Globe Award Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 2011

Jessica Chastain's family

She has 1 daughter.

Jessica Chastain's daughter: Giulietta Passi di Preposulo

Jessica Chastain's daughter's name is Giulietta Passi di Preposulo. She is known as actor. Her daughter was born on Wednesday 4th of April 2018 in San Francisco.

Jessica Chastain's schools

We found 4 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Juilliard School, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sacramento City College, El Camino Fundamental High School.

Detailed informations about her schools

Attended the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York City and was in the graduating class of her best friend, Jess Weixler.
Attended El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento, California, but later dropped out. One of her classmates was Mandisa.

Jessica Chastain's career

Jessica´s main focus is to be actor. She is famous thanks to The Tree of Life, Zero Dark Thirty, Mama. You could see her also in Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Is Jessica Chastain gay ?

She is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Jessica Chastain's Awards

Won the Next Future Icon award at The Elle Style Awards in 2012.
Was awarded at the Elle Women in Hollywood Awards with the Calvin Klein Collection's Emerging Star Spotlight Award.
Was awarded the inaugural Gucci Award for Women in Cinema for The Tree of Life (2011).
Was awarded the Nova Award at the 2013 Maui Film Festival for the "range of characters she has brought to life in her chameleon-like silver screen performances".

Jessica Chastain's Rankings

Was ranked #86 on Ask Men's list of Top 99 Women of 2012.
Was ranked #76 on Ask Men's list of Top 99 Women of 2013.
Was ranked #5 on the Forbes list of Best Dressed Women Of 2012.
Was ranked #72 in Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 of 2013 list.
Was ranked at #23 on Empire's The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars list. (2013).
Was ranked #32 on Ask Men's list of Top 99 Women of 2014.

Jessica Chastain's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The Help in 2011
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Zero Dark Thirty in 2012
Jessica was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress

What else you don't know about Jessica Chastain ?

Jessica´s middle name is Michelle.

What Jessica Chastain has done for a first time

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.
She first met Ned Benson at a festival screening of Four Lean Hounds (2003). She asked if she could work with him, later leading to her starring in his short The Westerner (2010) and the Eleanor Rigby films.
Was already 27 when she made her acting debut in an episode of ER (1994) and 34 when she appeared in her first widely released film.
Jessica was granted a scholarship by Robin Williams that allowed her to attend Juilliard. Making her the first member of her family to graduate from college.

Jessica Chastain's quotes

I was a difficult child because I wanted to be the mom.
I don't look modern. I'm not the girl that would walk into the room and everyone goes, "Oh!"
[on rehearsals] They'll say, "Save it, save it". I tell them: "Don't worry. I have a bottomless well of tears."
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.
I get embarrassed really easily. I get embarrassed even when people sing me "Happy Birthday."
People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.
I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
I'm not the girl at the club on the table. I'm going to be the one in the corner, quiet and so I don't call attention to myself.
I was the girl who cut school to go to the park, and the other kids would be smoking and drinking and I'd be reading Shakespeare.
I walk the dogs, I play the ukulele, I cook. I'm not a girl who goes to big parties--I'm shy.
I was always a little awkward, a redhead, and very freckly. Kids like to make fun of people who are different. I had short red hair and wore workout boots, so I got teased really badly for having red hair and being different.
[on dealing with her quick fame] I'll be the first unknown that everyone's going to be sick of. People will say, "We have no idea what her name is, but she is everywhere!"
You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.
I think a film should be judged on the film and not on the sex of the person who directed the film.
I'm very private. We've never seen a picture of me with a beau. For me, it's about the work. I have no personal life!
I try not to fake anything.
I end up doing roles where I'm afraid I'm going to embarrass myself, or fail. But then it gives you that extra hit of adrenalin, and you have to step up your game.
I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, "What was she thinking?"
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafÃ© to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
Isabelle Huppert is for me the greatest actress in the world. She always plays very bold characters, very daring women. She always challenges herself, working with directors from other countries, she's never lazy.
I have a rule not to date actors and because of that I can hopefully make work be the focus of public interest instead of my private life.
I got teased quite a lot when I was younger but I've grown into my red hair now and see it as something that makes me unique and special.
I don't read reviews because if you believe a good review, then you have to believe a bad review.
[on why she doesn't reveal her age] I never say. Clearly, I'm not 15. But I like mystery.
There's nothing about me that makes you think, "movie star". I'm just this normal girl.
Terrence Malick is probably one of the greatest teachers I'll ever know. A great teacher for filmmaking, for acting, but also and mostly, a great teacher of what it is to be a great human being. I value him so much.
Whenever I approach a role, I'm the girl who will sit in my house for a month and just watch as much as I can on the time period.
I'm not going out to night clubs and dancing with other actors, I'm not having lunch at The Ivy.
It wasn't like I wanted to be an actor. It was more like I am that. This is my job. It was so clear cut, I never had to make a choice.
I always felt before I had to prove myself. I would show up on a set and people would have heard about me but they wouldn't have seen my work. It was like they were watching me out of the corner of their eye saying: "Who is this girl?"
I like art, and fashion to me is art, so I will continue wearing things that I think are beautiful pieces and probably will get people talking.
I've always made really strange choices, maybe because no one told me otherwise.
They talk about a curse with awards. Sometimes people win then bad things happen. I just want to act. And I don't want anything bad to happen to me.
Women inspire me who juggle many things, who continue to be creative and also have a personal life. I definitely want a family, because how do you play normal people if you don't have a normal life?
I love to disappear into roles and play different characters. And I think I'm getting great films now because I'm not conventionally beautiful.
As an actor, you approach the characters from what the script tells you. You don't think about "Well, what do I look like compared to what she looks like?"
I'm not going to be the girl with the private yoga instructor at my house.
Every character I play I feel is like a woman I got to meet and learn from getting to hang out with. I see them as their own people. So I think I take something away from everything.
I know people ask why I never am pictured with a man, but my work is being an artist, an actor. It does show, indeed, women don't need a man to define. I define myself.
I want to play all kinds of women in my career. I've done that in my film career, so I want to continue to do that in theater as well.
[on overcoming stage fright] Every night I whisper to myself, "You chose this, Jessica. You chose this. This is what you wanted to do your whole life."
I used to watch the Tonys every year and I'd record it on my VHS, and then throughout the year I'd watch the dance numbers over and over. It was the closest I could get to seeing a Broadway show. I know. Such a nerd.
For me, fashion is incredibly emotional. I go to shows in Paris and try not to cry. Fashion is the expression of, "This is how I am feeling today."
If I am suddenly this 'festival girl,' it's because of the directors I choose to work with. For me that is everything.
I can model for photos, but at events I'm just not a pose-y girl.
[on her character in Zero Dark Thirty (2012)] You really see the drive and the journey that this woman takes, and you see her unravel.
[on when she was asked if fame would change her] I think I'm more nervous about people around me changing, like in the way they relate to me
As an actor I want to play different kinds of women and I don't want to be associated with a certain look for each part because I want to be allowed to age. The wonderful thing about [different roles I've had] is that they look so different.
I'm very shy when it comes to guys. I like to be wooed, but I've had to be more outwardly available, I guess.
I never wanted to be a movie star. I wanted to be an actor. I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.
When I leave a film, there's this sadness that I'm not gonna know this person anymore.
I love the feeling of giving myself over to another strong point of view. It's the best kind of trust-the belief that an artist will take care of me while creating something unique.
I love wigs, I love costumes, I love anything that will get me into the character.
I really made an effort to not put myself in situations where my private life becomes more interesting than my work.
It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.
I don't work for awards but when you receive support and encouragement, it opens me up more, it helps me be vulnerable.
I will never say my age because I'm an actress, and I want to play different ages.
I'm not going to lie, being given free clothes is fantastic. I never used to imagine my wedding dress as a little girl, but I'd always imagined my Oscar dress.
I love fashion that celebrates a woman's body, that maybe is a throwback to the glamor of old Hollywood; that silhouette but somehow making it modern.
In the press, I like to be known for my work and not for whom I'm dating or what my favorite ice cream is.
I don't accept that as an actress I have to play one personality over and over. Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman - all these great actors are allowed to change what they look like. Women in Hollywood? I've noticed they're not.
If someone tells me "You can't do that", I'm going to try to do it even more. It doesn't mean I'll succeed. But it means I'll fight you.
I wanted to be an actor my whole life and when I was at Juilliard they had a cutting policy. Even if you showed up to all your classes if the teachers thought you weren't good enough they could still cut you. I just wasn't going to let them send me home.
I usually cry in the trailer on the last day of filming, when no one else is around except hair and make-up people. I always have a cry.
Since I graduated from college, I've never once had to ask my parents for money, which my dad loves to tell people!
[on her life] My life has gone, you know, a little wonderful and crazy.
[on her confidence] I did not feel like a beautiful woman that people would kill each other for. Jessica - who I am in my personal life - I'm very shy, I feel very awkward, I don't feel like a femme fatale at all.
Acting, for me, is about exploring things I don't understand in myself.
I love playing strong women that don't just serve the male character of the story. When I get a character, I always think: How can we give her a bit of an edge?
I'm not a weak person. I try to connect with people. And so if someone around me is suffering, I'm going to feel it. I'm going to take it in and have compassion for them.
Every time I go to a party, I feel so old. Even 10 years ago, or when I was going out in college, I always felt like, "Oh my God, I'm so old." I'm not the crazy, wild girl, so I need to knock back a few drinks in order to let loose and have a good time.
I thrive on fear. Fear actually propels me forward. I am an emotional person. I'm an awkward girl. I get a little shy, and I get nervous a lot. But every time I think I can't do something, I actually want to do it.

Jessica Chastain's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Jessica Chastain looks. We will focus on her height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. She is tall as 5' 4" (163 cm). She weights 124lbs (56 kg). Body build is slim. Her eyes are tinted green. Jessica´s hair is shade of red. If you are really curious, you may find interesting Jessica´s shoe size is 7.

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