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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.
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.
Quotes by Jessica Chastain
"I struggled for so long to try to create a career."
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"I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?"
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"There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age."
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"I'm a true believer that you get out of something what you put into it."
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"I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of."
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