Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain (Nora Helmer) has received numerous nominations and accolades for her work. She can currently be seen in her Golden Globe-nominated performance as country music legend Tammy Wynette in Showtime’s limited series “George & Tammy,” opposite Michael Shannon as George Jones. This limited series will chronicle the country music power couple and their complicated relationship, based on the book The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, written by the couple’s daughter, Georgette Jones.
Chastain recently wrapped production on the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, in which she stars opposite Anne Hathaway and on the Michel Franco directed, Memory, opposite Peter Sarsgaard.
Chastain’s starring role in 2021 as the incomparable Tammy Faye in The Eyes of Tammy Faye earned her the award for Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and the Academy Awards. Produced by Freckle Films, the film also won the 2022 Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Her recent work includes Netflix’s The Good Nurse, HBO’s “Scenes From A Marriage,” Universal’s The 355, and Roadside Pictures’ The Forgiven. Previously, she could be seen in the on-stage theater production of Salome, It Chapter 2, Molly’s Game, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Interstellar, Tree of Life, and Zero Dark Thirty, which earned her the 2013 Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination.
In addition to her acclaimed work as an actor, Chastain launched Freckle Films, a New York based film and television production company, in 2016. In addition to The 355, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Mothers’ Instinct and the limited series, “George & Tammy,” Freckle Films is currently developing a series adaptation of the novel His & Hers written by Alice Feeney as well as The School For Good Mothers written by Jessamine Chan.