Jessica Chastain is an American actress, best known for Mama, The Martian, Zero Dark Thirty, The Tree of Life, and The Help. Other film credits include The Huntsman, The Zookeeper's Wife, Crimson Peak, Unity, Interstellar, Miss Julie, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him/Her/Them, A Most Violent Year, Seduced and Abandoned, Lawless, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Salomé, Take Shelter, Wilde Salomé, Coriolanus, The Debt, Stolen, and Jolene. 

Television roles include Mary Debenham on PBS' Agatha Christie: Poirot, A.D.A. Sigrun Borg on NBC's Law & Order: Trial By Jury, Sarah Williams on CW's Veronica Mars, Dahlia Taslitz on NBC's ER, and Charlotte Ormand in Hallmark's miniseries, Blackbeard. 

Theatre credits include her Broadway debut as Catherine Sloper in The Heiress (Walter Kerr Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Desdemona in Othello (Skirball Center for the Performing Arts) and Lee in Rodney's Wife (Playwrights Horizons); and regionally, as Anya in The Cherry Orchard (Williamstown Theatre).