Jessica Chastain is a talented and versatile American actress who made a dizzying career in Hollywood and by the age of forty took her rightful place among the stars of world cinema. She starred in 40 films and became a producer of three of them. Multiple Oscar and Golden Globe nominees.
Childhood and adolescence
The future actress was born on March 24, 1977, in Sacramento, the capital of the state of California. Chastain is her mother’s maiden name, Jerry. The name of her biological father Jessica keeps a secret, it is only known that she was born when her parents were still minors. There is a version that the father of the actress may be rock musician Michael Monasterio, but she does not confirm this information. Jessica considers her only beloved father to be firefighter Michael Hastie, who became the official husband of Jerry Chastain and took care of Jess like his own daughter. In addition to Jessica, four more children grew up in the family: two sisters and two brothers. There was not enough money, so the family often had to move in search of cheap housing. Mother disappeared from morning to evening in a vegan restaurant where she worked as a cook and taking care of the kids lay mainly on the shoulders of the grandmother. It was she who managed to instill in Jessica an interest in art, from an early age she took her granddaughter to the theater and dreamed that her little red-haired pet would become an actress.
Jessica attended the musical “Joseph and His Amazing Dreamcoat.” The performance impressed her so much that she wanted to find herself in the epicenter of this magical action. The girl began to study in a choreographic studio, and at the age of thirteen, she enrolled in a theater group. Jessica Chastain from a young age “sick” with art After graduating from primary school, Jessica entered the local city college, where she continued her studies in a drama studio. She played in student performances, appeared on stage as Juliet, and dreamed of studying theater at the famous Juilliard School of the Arts. Jessica Chastain studied at the famous Juilliard School of Art After receiving her diploma, in 1999 she and her grandmother went to New York and, despite the enormous competition, successfully passed all the qualifying tests for Juilliard. However, she could not afford school, and only thanks to the Robin Williams scholarship, which Jess received as a child from a low-income family, she got the opportunity to become a student at this prestigious educational institution.
Personal life
Jessica Chastain Despite her high creative ambitions, busy work schedule, and feminist views, the actress has never suffered from neglect of the opposite sex. For several years Jessica met with director Ned Benson and even worked with him on the trilogy “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”, although by this time their relationship had already completely exhausted itself. This was followed by an affair with actor Tom Hiddleston, after breaking up with which Jessica announced that she no longer wanted to start a love story with her colleagues.
In the summer of 2017, the actress officially got married. Her chosen one was the designer of the fashion brand Moncler, the Italian aristocrat Jean Luca Passy de Preposulo. The wedding took place at the groom’s family estate in Northern Italy, which has been owned by his family since the 17th century. Before this happy event, the lovers met for five years and were able to thoroughly test their feelings. Jessica admits that she has finally found personal happiness in her husband. Jessica Chastain and her husband Jean Luca Passy de Preposulo Jean Luca fully share his wife’s interests, as well as loves and take care of animals, and have a positive attitude towards vegetarianism.
