Jessica Chastain Net Worth

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Jessica was born on 24th March 1977 in Sacramento, California. She is best known from Jolene, Tree of Life, Mama, Zero Dark Thirty and other movies. Jessica is dating Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo. She is vegan and has won PETA’s 2012 Sexiest Vegetarian title. She also appeared in guest roles in Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Veronica Mars series.

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Actor Jessica Chastain has a networth that has to be considered very impressive.

Career

Before she graduated from Juilliard, television producer John Wells signed 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 with Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, and Tom Wilkinson in the 2010 thriller “The Debt,” and in 2011, she starred in “The Help” alongside Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Allison Janney, and Bryce 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.

Personal Life

Jessica dated writer-director Ned Benson for four years, and after they split up in 2010, she began a relationship with Italian count Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in 2012. The couple married on June 10, 2017, and they welcomed daughter Giulietta via a surrogate in 2018, followed by a second child in 2020. Chastain is a feminist, and in 2015, she wrote an essay about gender imbalance in the film industry for “The Hollywood Reporter.” In 2018, she worked with 300 other women in the industry to establish the “Time’s Up” initiative to protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace. Jessica has supported the Got Your 6 campaign to “connect Americans with veterans and military families in order to build relationships that will aid transition to civilian life, foster leadership, and reinvigorate American communities,” and in 2016, she joined the advisory board of We Do It Together, which is dedicated to promoting women’s empowerment through film and television. Chastain has been involved with several charities, such as Dramatic Need, To Write Love on Her Arms, and Planned Parenthood, and in 2019, she refused to work in states with strict abortion laws.

Inspirational Quotes by Jessica Chastain

What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.

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When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.

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I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.

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I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.

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In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

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