FrameThrower · Actors · Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain
17 films · 1,195 frames · top-billed in 13 · 2010–2022
Born 24 March 1977 · Southern California, California, USA
Jessica Michelle Chastain is an American actress and film producer. Known for her roles in films with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.
Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Chastain developed an interest in acting from an early age. In 1998, she made her professional stage debut as Shakespeare's Juliet. After studying acting at the Juilliard School, she was signed to a talent holding deal with the television producer John Wells.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,195 frames · top-billed in 13 · 2010–2022
- Academy Award for Best Actress2022
- Golden Globe Awards2011
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class2022
- Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance2021
- Saturn Awards
- Jupiter Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,195 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jessica takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 44% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Jessica takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The 355
2022 · Mason 'Mace' Brown
The Good Nurse
2022 · Amy Loughren
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · Tammy Faye Bakker
It Chapter Two
2019 · Beverly Marsh
The Martian
2015 · Melissa Lewis
Crimson Peak
2015 · Lady Lucille Sharpe
A Most Violent Year
2014 · Anna Morales
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014 · Eleanor Rigby
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014 · Eleanor Rigby
Mama
2013 · Annabel
Zero Dark Thirty
2012 · Maya
The Tree Of Life
2011 · Mrs. O'Brien
Take Shelter
2011 · Samantha LaForche
Interstellar
2014 · Murph
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 · Gia (voice)
Lawless
2012 · Maggie Beauford
The Debt
2010 · Young Rachel Singer
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,195 frames from Jessica Chastain's 17 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.