In her most recent big screen role, the Golden Globe winner takes a turn for the sinister as Lady Lucille Sharpe in this Gothic-inspired horror flick.
The redheaded beauty stars as Commander Lewis, leader of a NASA mission gone horribly wrong that leaves co-star Matt Damon stranded on Mars.
Chastain stars as the wife of an oil tycoon (Oscar Isaac) who becomes entangled in a bloody war of corruption threatening the family business.
Separated by a galaxy of time, the space epic traces the relationship between Chastain and her father (Matthew McConaughey) who leaves earth to find another planet that can support human life
Chastain sports an unexpected black 'do for the 2013 thriller, and goes toe-to-toe with a demonic ghost over the possession of her boyfriend's feral nieces.
The star earned an Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe Award in 2013 for her stunning performance as a CIA intelligence analyst tasked with taking down Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The actress was able to put her Juilliard training to the test as a burlesque dancer caught in the middle of a shady Prohibition-era moonshine business.
Chastain made quite the gorgeous jaguar (with an Italian accent, naturally!) in the third installment of this zoo-themed animated comedy.
Chastain appeared in this Civil Rights era drama with a star-studded cast that included Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard and Octavia Spencer.
The meaning of life—and its inception—is explored in this 2011 drama starring Chastain, Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, spurring many critics to call it one of the great cinematic masterpieces of all time.
The espionage thriller stars Chastain as a former special agent whose successful takedown of a Nazi war criminal begins to unravel 30 years later.
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