Chastain, mother of a four-year-old boy, will now turn her prodigious energy toward Reach Up!
Oscar favourites Daniel Day Lewis and Jessica Chastain won the best actor and actress prizes respectively.
Two films starring Jessica Chastain, Mama and Zero Dark Thirty, took up fourth and fifth place.
And as I said, Jessica Chastain has to be the leading contender for a Best Actress nomination.
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Chastain went on to win another World Cup and an Olympic gold medal in her brilliant 16-year career.
Maya (the brilliant Jessica Chastain) and company methodically gather clues that lead them to catch the bad guys.
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Jessica Chastain is a 30 year-old from California and may be the most prolific actress you never heard about.
Jessica Chastain's horror outing Mama held steady in third place after its second weekend in UK and Irish cinemas.
It turns out that Chastain is 30, and would have been 27 when she was cast in the film.
Chastain will play Catherine Sloper - the part that won Olivia de Havilland her second Oscar for best actress.
On the red carpet, Jessica Chastain's dusty rose Armani gown earned particular raves.
Speaking of Chastain, the red-haired beauty owned the rest of the Top 5.
They included actors Paul Rudd, Jim Parsons and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, as well as actresses Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Chastain.
It makes so much more sense for studios to populate their movies with up and comers like Chastain right now.
Jessica Chastain will win the Oscar for Best Actress, and Mark Boal will probably win for Best Original Screenplay.
Chastain's well-tailored outfit, combined with her cascading reddish hair, evoked classic Hollywood glamor of the '40s, fashion expert Joe Zee said.
But Bigelow chose an appealing actress to play her: Chastain has a slightly distraught look, a sudden smile, a warm-spirited responsiveness.
The Help was just one of seven movies Chastain appeared in last year including Tree of Life, Coriolanus and Take Shelter.
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Best Actress is also a two woman race between Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook.
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Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens will make his Broadway debut this autumn, playing a suspected fortune hunter opposite The Help's Jessica Chastain.
Madonna, Freida Pinto, Aishwarya Rai, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Franco, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Chastain and feminist icon Gloria Steinem were among the presenters.
Arriving first, Chastain conjured golden era Hollywood in gilded Armani Prive and a combination of Deco diamond earrings and bracelet, courtesy Harry Winston.
Ms Chastain says they plan to run one large billboard, a few smaller billboards and several bus shelter ads in the Atlanta area.
Chances are pretty good that if you went to the movies this weekend, you went to see something with Jessica Chastain in it.
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Together with a third brother, they grew up in Texas, raised by a fierce father (Brad Pitt) and a beatific mother (Jessica Chastain).
Some big names snubbed this year were Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Katie Holmes, Bette Midler, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson.
We caught up with Chastain to talk about the World Cup final, the U.S. Men's National team and her plans for life after soccer.
Annabel is played by Jessica Chastain, though you might not know it at first, thanks to her mop of black hair and abundant tattoos.
It's fair to say that Chastain's presence in both "Mama" and "Zero Dark Thirty" had little to do with each film's successful box office performance.
Ms Chastain says that while she supports healthy habits and movement for children of all sizes, singling out overweight young people feels dangerous and unfair.
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