Jessica Chastain attends the Governors Ball following the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, CA. Photo: Heather Icke / ©AMPAS Copyright: ©AMPAS
Jessica Chastain is one of the most talented and acclaimed actresses working today.
She first gained attention for her breakout role as Celia Foote in ‘The Help’, which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She would go on to be nominated for Best Actress for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘The Eye of Tammy Fey’, eventually winning the award for her performance in the latter.
Chastain has also appeared in popular films such as ‘Interstellar,’ ‘The Martian,’ ‘Crimson Peak,’ ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War,’ ‘Miss Sloane,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ ‘Dark Phoenix,’ ‘It Chapter.’ Two, ‘The 355,’ and ‘The Good Nurse.’
Her new movie, ‘Memory’, which also stars Peter Sarsgaard, opens on January 5th before opening in theaters in limited release on December 22nd.
In honor of the new film, Moviefone is counting down the 20 best films from Jessica Chastain’s impressive career, including her latest.
Let’s begin!
(L to R) Sophie Turner as Jean Grey/Phoenix and Jessica Chastain as Wook in ‘Dark Phoenix’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Gray (Sophie Turner), begins to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean almost dies when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force makes her not only infinitely more powerful, but also more unstable. Now the X-Men must band together to save his soul and war aliens who want to use Gray’s new abilities to rule the galaxy.
“The Phoenix shall rise.”
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1 hour 54 minutes7th June, 2019
While two evil sisters (Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt) prepare to conquer the land, two renegades – Eric the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), who helped Snow White defeat Ravenna in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’, and her Forbidden lover, Sara (Chastain) – sets out to stop them.
“The Story Before Snow White”
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1 hour 54 minutes22nd April, 2016
From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray, ‘Armageddon Time’ is a deeply personal story about the power of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. The film has an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.
“The end of an era. The beginning of everything.”
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1 hour 54 minutes4th November, 2022
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17. ‘Ava’ (2020)
A black ops assassin (Chastain) is forced to fight for his own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
In the Texas Bayou, a local homicide detective (Sam Worthington) teams up with a cop from New York City (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
“No one is safe.”
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1 hour 45 minutes14th October, 2011
15. ‘Memory’ (2023)
(L to R) Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain in ‘Memory’. Photo: Ketchup Entertainment.
Sylvia (Chastain) is a social worker who lives a simple and structured life. This unfolds when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will have a profound effect on both of them as they open doors to the past.
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This unfolds when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise visit… read the plot
After a family tragedy, an aspiring writer (Mia Wasikowska) is torn between her love for her childhood friend (Charlie Hunnam) and the lure of a mysterious outsider (Tom Hiddleston). While trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she drifts into a house that breathes, bleeds … and remembers.
27 years after Pennywise overcomes an evil supernatural entity, former members of the Losers’ Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
A group of top female agents from American (Chastain), British (Lupita Nyong’o), Chinese (Fan Bingbing), Colombian (Penelope Cruz) and German (Diane Kruger) government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization. Obtaining a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
The compelling story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack (Sean Penn), from childhood innocence to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile his complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, searching for answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
(L to R) Eddie Redmayne as Charles “Charlie” Cullen and Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughran in Netflix’s ‘The Good Nurse.’
Suspecting that her colleague (Eddie Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse (Chastain) risks her life to uncover the truth.
“Based on an unbelievable true story.”
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2 hours 1 minute26th October, 2022
Molly Bloom (Chastain), a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and the target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
“Deal with it.”
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2 hours 20 minutes11th October, 2017
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker (Andrew Garfield) and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye (Chastain), rise from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity–only for the couple to fall from grace due to some human sin. due to.
“Sometimes in life, you have to take your hits.”
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2 hours 6 minutes17th September, 2021
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 lives of an immigrant (Oscar Isaac) and his family trying to expand their business and take advantage of opportunities. The rampant violence, decay and corruption of the day draw them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
“The outcome is never in question. Just the path you take to get there.”
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2 hours 4 minutes6th November, 2014
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In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia ran a multi-purpose backwoods organization that hid their true business – bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest (Tom Hardy) is the brains of the operation; Older Howard (Jason Clarke) is Brown, and younger Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is a lookout. Although the local police have taken a bribe and left the brothers alone, a violent war breaks out when a sadistic Chicago lawman arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants’ operation.
“When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes.”
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1 hour 55 minutesAugust 29, 2012
Jessica Chastain as Madeline “Elizabeth” Sloane in ‘Miss Sloane’. Photo: Relativity Europacorp Distribution.
An aspiring lobbyist (Chastain) faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
“Make sure you surprise them.”
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2 hours 13 minutes11th November, 2016
Abilene Clark (Viola Davis) is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minnie Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for a job; And Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young white woman who has recently returned home after graduating college to find that her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to illustrate how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around “help”; Yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of ethnic lines.
“Change begins with a whisper.”
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2 hours 26 minutes9th August, 2011
The adventures of a group of explorers who use a newly discovered wormhole to overcome the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in interstellar travel.
“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
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2 hours 49 minutesOct 26, 2014
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During a mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a terrible storm and is left behind by his crew. But Watney survives and finds herself stranded and alone on a hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw on his ingenuity, wit, and spirit to stay alive and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Jessica Chastain as Maya Harris in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’. Photo: Sony Pictures Release.
Chronicles the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6 in May, 2011.
“Greatest Invention in History.”
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2 hours 37 minutes19th December, 2012
