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elcome to Jessica Chastain Network, your oldest and most complete resource dedicated to Jessica Chastain. You may better remember her as Molly Bloom in Molly's Game or Maya in Zero Dark Thiry. Academy Award winner for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jessica spans her career from big to small screen, seeing her not only in movies like The Help, The Debt, Miss Sloane, Woman Walks Ahead, The Zookeeper's Wife, The Good Nurse, she also played some iconic roles for series like Scenes from a Marriage and George & Tammy. Recently she registered a podcast series, The Space Within, and had a role in Memory and Mothers' Instinct. This site aims to keep you up-to-date with anything Mrs. Chastain with news, photos and videos. We are proudly PAPARAZZI FREE!
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  • → Attended the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York City and was in the graduating class of her best friend, Jess Weixler.
  • → 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.
  • → Before her film career, she toured in a stage production of “Othello” with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
  • → In order to gain weight for the role of Celia Foote in The Help (2011), she ate soy ice cream melted in the microwave.
  • → Was personally handpicked by Al Pacino to play opposite him as the title character of the play ‘Salome’.
  • → Her idols are Isabelle Huppert, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Emily Watson, Julianne Moore and Marion Cotillard.
  • → Attended El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento, California, but later dropped out. One of her classmates was Mandisa.
  • → Good friends with Michael Urie. They were both members of the Juilliard School’s Drama Division’s Group 32.
  • → Learned German and Krav Maga for The Debt (2010).
  • → 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.
  • → Is a vegan and comes from a vegan family: her mother is a vegan chef.
  • → Ralph Fiennes is her favorite actor.
  • → Plays the ukulele.
  • → Based her performance of Annabel in Mama (2013) on Crystal Castles singer Alice Glass.
  • → Ned Benson wrote the part of Eleanor Rigby specifically for her.
  • → She was noticed at Juilliard by actress Marthe Keller, who recommended her to Al Pacino.
  • → She’s a fan of Breaking Bad (2008).
  • → Is a trained dancer and ballerina.
  • → 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 Basañez, were emigrants from Spain (of Basque and Castilian ancestry). One of her paternal great-grandfathers, Ernest John Thomas (originally “Anastaciou”), was Greek.
  • → “Chastain” is her mother’s maiden name.
  • → Refuses to discuss her true age with the public. She considers acknowledging her true age as limiting her choices and offers of acting roles.
  • → Often mistaken for Bryce Dallas Howard.
  • → 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.
  • → Learned the piano for Crimson Peak (2015) and performed all songs in the movie by herself.
  • → 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.
  • → 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.
  • → She and her former roommate and good friend, actress Michelle Williams, were both nominated for Oscars in the same year (2012).
  • → 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.
  • → Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1998.


Info taken from imdb.com