Jessica Chastain and her husband, Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, have a son and a daughter: Giulietta and Augustus.
The celebrity would prefer to avoid discussing her children's births and hardly ever posts pictures online. On April 4, 2018, Jessica and Gian welcomed a child via surrogate. In January 2019, when she posted a picture of a tiny little hand reaching out for a ruby ring, her daughter Giulietta Chastain Passi appeared to be featured on her Instagram feed.
Fans only twitched when they saw her with a baby carrier after she went on to give birth to another son. "Giulietta and Augustus, you are my heart," Jessica finally said when accepting an Oscar in 2022, revealing the names of her son. The actress stated in 2014 to InStyle: "I'm not interested in the fame of being a personality." The same is obviously true for raising her kids because she prefers to avoid the spotlight.
In the past, Chastain has expressed a desire to support working mothers, even going so far as to create a supportive environment on one of her previous film sets. "I love bringing families on set." "We had a trailer that was for children, and so how wonderful that, yes, we can be successful and wonderful at our work, but we also do not have to shut down part of our life in order to do so."
What details about her child has Jessica Chastain made public?
The actress recalled a recent conversation she had with her daughter (Guiletta, 4) during which Chastain gave her advice as they discussed what her little one wants to be when she grows up. Chastain was speaking to Marie Claire as the cover star for the magazine's digital holiday issue.
"Normally, I never talk about my personal life.” “But I had a conversation with my daughter not that long ago," she began. "And when you're talking to kids, it's like, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' 'I want to be a ballerina.' And she was like, 'I want to be a mama.' And I was like, 'That's a great thing to be." “But you know, you can be more than one thing." She's like, 'What do you mean?'"
"I said, 'Well, look at me, honey. I'm a mama. I'm an actress. I'm a producer. I'm a business owner. I'm a friend. I'm a cook.' I started listing all these things,” she continued. "Like, I am many things, so you can be whatever you want." "You can be the president. You can be a ballerina. You can be a mama. And it was so shocking for her to hear all of this." Chastain added.
How is Jessica Chastain’s personal life?
Generally receiving a lot of media attention, Chastain keeps her personal life under wraps and avoids bringing a date to red carpet events. She describes herself as "shy" and stated in 2011 that she prefers doing household chores like walking the dog and playing the ukulele to going out to parties. She cited Isabelle Huppert as an inspiration because of how she balanced raising a family and taking on "out there roles" in movies.
Chastain has taken in a rescue dog because she loves animals. She was a pescatarian for the majority of her life before converting to veganism due to health issues. She is a shareholder in the meat substitute business “Beyond Meat.”
Chastain and writer-director Ned Benson had a committed relationship in the 2000s that ended in 2010. She started dating Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, an executive for the clothing company Moncler, in 2012. He is an Italian count and a member of the aristocratic Passi de Preposulo family. She married Preposulo on June 10, 2017, at his family's estate in Carbonera, Italy.
Why is Jessica Chastain so well-known?
An American actress and producer, Jessica Michelle Chastain, won numerous honors, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is best known for starring in movies with feminist themes. In 2012, Time magazine named her one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Chastain made a breakthrough in 2011 with the release of six movies, including the dramas The Tree of Life (2011) and Take Shelter (2011). She was nominated for Academy Awards for her roles as a CIA analyst in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and an aspiring socialite in the drama The Help (2011).
The science fiction movies Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015), as well as the horror movie It: Chapter Two (2019), all enjoyed greater commercial success. In the dramas A Most Violent Year (2014), Miss Sloane (2016), and Molly's Game (2017), as well as the television miniseries Scenes from a Marriage (2021), Chastain won additional praise for her portrayals of strong-willed women. She later went on to play Tammy Faye Bakker in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Chastain founded Freckle Films, a production company dedicated to advancing diversity in the film industry, and she also owns stock in the soccer team Angel City FC. She speaks out about issues related to mental health as well as racial and gender equality.
