The most stunning photos of Jessica Chastain
Born March 29, 1981, in North Carolina, USA, Jessica Chastain (real name Howard) has four siblings. Daughter of a firefighter and a chef, she was not predisposed to succeed in the arts, but built her dream with determination. She began dancing at the age of nine, and joined a troupe until she was thirteen, before turning to the theater.
She then decided to adopt her mother's maiden name and entered the Juilliard School, the drama school in New York. She is chosen to play Desdemona, in the play Othello, by William Shakespeare. It is then on the small screen, with secondary roles in Emergencies, New York Court of Justice or Veronica Mars, that she makes her classes. From 2007, the cinema made her eyes soft: she successively became Jolene in the eponymous film, by Dan Ireland, then Salomé in Wilde Salome, by Al Pacino, adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde.
2011 is the year of his consecration. Chosen to play Mrs O'Brien, Brad Pitt's wife in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, she made herself known to the whole world when the film received the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The same year, she is the young heroine of The Rachel Singer Affair, alongside Sam Worshington and Helen Mirror. In January 2012, she appeared in the credits of Jeff Nichols' drama, Take Shelter, which was very well received by critics. Since September 2012, Jessica has been in the credits of Lawless, by John Hillcoat alongside Jason Clarke, Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy. In 2013, the sublime redhead starred in the fantastic thriller, Mama, directed by Andres Muschietti and produced by Guillermo del Toro.
On the private side, Jessica Chastain marries Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, her companion since 2012, during a ceremony organized in Treviso, Italy, on June 10, 2017. In November 2018, they welcome a little girl, Giulietta, born by surrogate mother . On March 26, 2020, the actress was spotted walking with a newborn in a baby carrier in Santa Monica.
