Jessica Chastain

Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress who received critical acclaim for her role as Maya in the 2012 war thriller film Zero Dark Thirty, which earned her the Broadcast Film Critics Association for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama and an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.

She played Celia Foote in the 2011 DreamWorks/Touchstone Pictures film The Help, which earned her a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and recently posed as Merida in the Disney Dream Portrait Series.