Jessica Chastain

It has been a highway to success for the relative new comer that Jessica Chastain is. With a flurry of seven movies in 2011 itself, it is of no surprise that she is all set to dislodge Emily Blunt, Christina Hendricks and Bryce Dallas Howard as the most hot, beautiful and wanted redhead in Hollywood. As she signed the screens with roles beside Al Pacino, Brad Pitt and Sam Worthington, she also won a Golden Globe, an Academy award for the best actress and made it to the 2012 Times list of the 100 most influential people in the world. And more recently, in January 2013, her movies Mama and Zero Dark Thirty occupied the number one and number two movies' slots at the box office.

A relative late-comer into the big ticketing arena of Hollywood movies, Jessica Chastain's net worth of $2 million does not reflect the tremendous promise and potential that she represents. She has already won more than 60 different awards and that tells something about her. Her latest movie, Mama earned a whopping $28.1 million over a single 3-day weekend. She has only 14 movies to her credit to date, but half a dozen of them have been box office hits. She also has 9 titles for television shows and theater production, The Heiress.

Jessica Chastain lives at NoHo or the North of Houston Street along with her pet dog Chaplin, a 3-legged rescue dog. This love for dogs is one aspect of her love for animals though. She is a sworn vegan and is a die-hard supporter for PETA, and watching dog videos to cheer her up. Having achieved tremendous fame at a rapid pace, Jessica patronizes some of the world's best fashion brands including Christopher Kane, Ray-Ban,Yves Saint Laurent and Burberry London. Though she hardly ever goes for vacations, but she's a regular at several events and that has taken her places, including London, Berlin, New York, Cannes, Los Angeles and Venice. An enthusiast for fitness, Jessica runs often and is also a devout Yoga disciple, and has stated her lifelong dream of getting her mother her own food truck.

Born to a vegan chef mother and a firefighter father, Jessica Chastain attended the Sacramento City College where she excelled in extra-curricular activities. However, she discovered her drive for the big stage at a young age itself when she began dancing at age 9 and won a scholarship to Juilliard, New York's prestigious arts school, where she acted in several plays before entering screen acting in 2003. Besides signing an exclusive television contract, she was also on a number of hit shows like Law & Order, Veronica Mars and ER. However, the big break came in year 2006 when she provided a brave performance opposite Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde'sSalome. Acclaimed director, Terrence Malick, noticed her and she was soon in Tree of Life. Seven movies in 2011 included hits like The Debt, The Help, The Fields and Lawless and she quickly grew big with the massive box office hits, Mama and Zero Dark Thirty in 2013. A vegan by nature, she seems to have only animal loves to date!