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Jessica Chastain is an American actress and producer. Jessica Chastain's net worth is $50 million. Jessica Chastain has more than 50 acting credits to her name, including the films "The Help" (2011), "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), "Mama" (2013), "Interstellar" (2014), "Crimson Peak" (2015), "It Chapter Two" (2019) and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" (2022). For "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," Jessica won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Actress.

Jessica attended El Camino Fundamental High School, but she did not qualify for graduation because she had too many absences; she later earned an adult diploma. As a teenager, Chastain attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and she stated of her high school experience, "I hated being in classes — I felt like I wasn't learning anything — so I would sit in my car and read 'As You Like It.'" From 1996 to 1997, Jessica attended Sacramento City College, where she joined the debate team, then she transferred to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1998. That year she also appeared in her first professional play as Juliet in a TheatreWorks' production of "Romeo and Juliet," which led to Chastain auditioning for the Juilliard School. She received a scholarship that was funded byRobin Williamsand earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003.

Jessica Chastain was born Jessica Michelle Chastain on March 24, 1977, in Sacramento, California. Her parents, Jerri Renee Hastey and Michael Monasterio (a musician), were teenagers when Jessica was born. Monasterio, who passed away in 2013, is not listed on Chastain's birth certificate, and she was estranged from him. Jerri, a vegan chef, later married firefighter Michael Hastey, and Jessica grew up with two sisters and two brothers; sadly, her younger sister Juliet died by suicide in 2003. Chastain became interested in acting at age 7 after attending a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with her grandmother.

Jessica made her Broadway debut in a 2012 Walter Kerr Theatre production of the Ruth and Augustus Goetz drama "The Heiress," and she has also appeared in "The Cherry Orchard" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (2004), "Salome" at the Wadsworth Theatre (2006), and "Othello" at The Public Theatre (2009).

Chastain launched the production company Freckle Films in 2016, and she has produced several of her films, such as "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" (2013), "The Zookeeper's Wife" (2017), and "Ava" (2020) as well as the 2017 documentary "I am Jane Doe," which was named Best Documentary Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival.

In 2013, Chastain starred in the supernatural horror film "Mama" and the drama "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby," and the following year, she portrayed the title role in "Miss Julie," received critical acclaim for her performance in "A Most Violent Year," and co-starred withMatthew McConaugheyin the hit science-fiction film "Interstellar," which grossed $701.8 million at the box office. Jessica had another hit in 2015, the science-fiction film "The Martian," which earned $630.2 million worldwide, and she also starred in "Crimson Peak" and narrated the documentary "Unity" that year. She then starred in 2016's "The Huntsman: Winter's War" and "Miss Sloane" and 2017's "The Zookeeper's Wife," "Molly's Game," and "Woman Walks Ahead." In 2018, Chastain hosted "Saturday Night Live" and appeared in the documentary "This Changes Everything," and in 2019, she played evil alien Vuk in "Dark Phoenix," the twelfth film in the "X-Men" franchise. She took on the work ofStephen Kingin 2019's "It Chapter Two," playing the adult version of Beverly Marsh, and for one of the horror film's scenes, she had to be covered in 4,500 gallons of fake blood. In 2020, she played an assassin in the action film "Ava," and it was announced that she had been cast asTammy Wynettein the limited series "George & Tammy." That series was released in 2022 and earned Jessica a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. That same year she appeared in a film about a different Tammy: "The Eyes of Tammy Faye." She would go on to win the Best Actress Oscar for this role.

Before she graduated from Juilliard, television producerJohn Wellssigned Jessica to a talent holding deal at a Los Angles event for final-year students, and after earning her degree, she moved to L.A. Chastain made her TV debut in the pilot of a 2004 remake of the 1960s series "Dark Shadows," but the show wasn't picked up. That year she also guest-starred on "ER" and "Veronica Mars," followed by "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005–2006), "Close to Home" (2006), "'Til Death" (2007), and "Journeyman" (2007). In 2006, Jessica appeared in the TV movie "Blackbeard: Terror at Sea," and in 2008, she played the title role in the drama "Jolene." She then appeared in the 2009 film "Stolen" and starred in and co-produced the 2010 short film "The Westerner." Chastain co-starred withHelen Mirren,Sam Worthington, andTom Wilkinsonin the 2010 thriller "The Debt," and in 2011, she starred in "The Help" alongsideOctavia Spencer,Viola Davis,Emma Stone,Allison Janney, andBryce Dallas Howard. The film earned numerous awards and brought in $216.6 million at the box office. In 2012, she voiced Gia the jaguar in "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," a massive hit with a worldwide gross of $746.9 million, and she starred in "The Color of Time," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "Lawless." "Zero Dark Thirty" earned Jessica many accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.

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