Name: Jessica Chastain
Age: 35
Character: Maya
Film: Zero Dark Thirty
Synopsis: For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden.
Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man.
Previous Golden Globe Wins: Jessica Chastain is yet to win a Golden Globe
Previous Golden Globe Nominations: She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Help.
Award/Nominations for role: Chastain has won Best Actress gongs at the National Board of Review, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards and Phoenix Film Critics Society Award.
And she has been nominated at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, London Film Critics Circle Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Critics: While the film may not be the best of the year, its true winner is Jessica Chastain's knock-out, Oscar-worthy performance. - FoxNews.com
- The knockout punch of the movie season is being delivered by Zero Dark Thirty. Chastain is a marvel, and Bigelow and Boal top their Oscar-winning work in The Hurt Locker. - Rolling Stones
- What it does in the course of telling a seminal story of our time is what contemporary films so rarely do, serve as brilliant provocation. - Wall Street Journal
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