Jessica Chastain is a film, television, and stage actress from the United States. John Wells, a television producer, signed her on for a talent holding deal while she was a final-year student at the Juilliard School.
Reuters, LOS ANGELES, March 27 — Jessica Chastain received the Academy Award for best lead actress on Sunday for her mascara-laden title role as Tammy Faye, the on-air preaching partner and wife of Christian televangelist Jim Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” a documentary about the couple’s rise and fall.
The Oscar win for Chastain, 45, who played Tammy Faye Bakker and was nearly unrecognizable in heavy makeup, came after she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal and capped her third Academy Award nomination.
She was previously nominated for an Oscar for her supporting performance as a Southern socialite in the 1960s racial drama “The Help” and her 2012 portrayal of a CIA analyst on the search for Osama Bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The real-life story of evangelical power couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who expanded their PTL Club television ministry into a worldwide Christian broadcast network throughout the 1970s and 1980s, was the subject of Chastain’s latest film.
Their profitable business, however, was shattered in 1987 by a series of highly publicized sex and financial scandals, which culminated in Jim Bakker’s conviction and imprisonment on multiple fraud counts, as well as the couple’s divorce.
Tammy Faye eventually married and changed her last name to Roe Messner, a developer, and recovered her reputation with a documentary and reality programme before passing away in 2007.
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