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Chelsea may refer to:

People[link]

• Chelsea (name)

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Chelsea, Victoria

Canada[link]

• Chelsea, Quebec

United Kingdom[link]

• Chelsea, London
  • Chelsea tube station, a proposed railway station
  • Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, a former borough in London
  • Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a borough in London
  • Chelsea and Fulham, a constituency at Westminster

United States[link]

• Chelsea, Alabama
• Chelsea, Maine
• Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City
• Chelsea, Massachusetts
  • Chelsea (MBTA station)
• Chelsea, Michigan
• Chelsea, Oklahoma
• Chelsea, South Dakota
• Chelsea, Vermont
• Chelsea Township (disambiguation)

Organizations[link]

• Chelsea Building Society, a UK building society
• Chelsea College of Art and Design, an art and design college in London, England
• Chelsea Food Services, an airline catering company
• Chelsea Piers, a sports and entertainment complex in New York City, United States
• Chelsea porcelain factory, a factory that was in London, England
• Chelsea Sugar Refinery, a factory in Birkenhead, New Zealand
• Hotel Chelsea, a hotel in New York City, United States
• Royal Hospital Chelsea, home for former soldiers in London, England
  • Chelsea pensioner, an occupant of Royal Hospital Chelsea

Culture[link]

Events[link]

• Chelsea Flower Show, annual event organised by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, UK

Film and television[link]

• Chelsea Benson, a character from the US soap opera Days of our Lives
• Chelsea Daniels, a character from the US sitcom That's So Raven
• Chelsea Fox, a character from the UK soap opera EastEnders
• Chelsea Girls, a 1966 film
• Chelsea Lately, a US TV talk show starring Chelsea Handler

Music[link]

• Chelsea (American band), was an early 70's folk rock band from New York City, and former Kiss drummer Peter Criss's first band
  • Chelsea (American band album), the only album released by the above band
• Chelsea (band), an English punk rock band, formed in London in 1976
  • Chelsea (British band album), debut album released in 1979
• Chelsea Grin (band), an American deathcore, formed in Utah in 2007
• "Chelsea" (song), a song by STEFY
• "Chelsea Dagger", a song by The Fratellis
• Chelsea Girl (album), an album by Nico
• "Chelsea Monday" (song), a song from Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear album
• "Chelsea Morning", a song written by Joni Mitchell and recorded by herself and by Judy Collins, Neil Diamond and others
• "Chelsea Rodgers", single from Prince's Planet Earth album
• "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea", an Elvis Costello song from his second album, This Year's Model.

Printed media[link]

• Chelsea (magazine), a small literary magazine since 1958 in New York City
• Chelsea Boys, a comic strip

Sport[link]

• Chelsea F.C., a premier league association football club in London, UK
• Chelsea Hajduk Soccer Club, an association football club in Melbourne, Australia
• Chelsea L.F.C., a women's association football club associated with Chelsea F.C.
• Bechem Chelsea, a Ghanaian football club based in Bechem, Ghana.
• Chelsea F.C., the former name of Glenfield Rovers, a New Zealand association football club based in North Shore City

Other[link]

• Chelsea (beverage), a carbonated, low-alcohol beverage
• Chelsea boots
• Chelsea bun, a cake
• Chelsea chic

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Jessica Chastain
Chastain at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Northern California, U.S.[1][2]
Education	Juilliard School (B.F.A. 2003)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present

Jessica Chastain is an American theater, film, and television actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Coriolanus, and The Tree of Life. She broke out in 2011 with seven films premiering. She won over 35 critics awards and was widely named as breakout star. For her role in the film The Help she received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2012, she was named to the list of Time 100 most influential people of the world.^[3]

Early life and education[link]

Chastain was born and raised in Northern California.^[1][2][4] She is one of five children.^[5] Her mother is a vegan chef, and her father (one source says stepfather)^[6] is a firefighter.^[7][8][9] Chastain is also vegan herself.^[10] She grew up as Jessica Howard,^[11] and later took her mother's maiden name as her stage name.^[5] Chastain had a "blue collar" upbringing around San Francisco.^[12]

She graduated from El Camino High School in Sacramento in 1995^[13] and attended Sacramento City College, where she was a member of the debate team (1996–1997).^[14] In 1998, she appeared as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet staged by TheatreWorks,^[15] a professional theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chastain then attended the Juilliard School in New York City as a member of the Drama Division's Group 32 (1999–2003), which also included Michael Urie.^[16] At Juilliard, she was a recipient of a scholarship made available by Robin Williams. She was an active participant in the drama department and starred in several theatrical productions and student film projects. She graduated from Juilliard with a B.F.A. degree in 2003.^[17]

Career[link]

Chastain at the Berlin Film Festival 2011

Chastain's first professional role came in 2004 for a TV movie adaptation of Dark Shadows. She later appeared in such television series as ER, Veronica Mars, Close to Home, and Law & Order: Trial By Jury.

In 2008, she made her film debut as the title role in Jolene, for which she received the Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress. The movie was based on the short story, Jolene: A Life by E. L. Doctorow, itself inspired by Dolly Parton's song, Jolene.^[18] It was later released in the United States on October 29, 2010.

In 2011, Chastain showed a wide variety in her roles, including: Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and the crime thriller Texas Killing Fields.^[19][20] Chastain starred as Celia Foote in The Help, which was based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name. The movie received positive reviews from critics and became an immediate box office hit grossing $169,620,611 in North America, and $35,700,000 in other territories, as of February 2, 2012, for a worldwide total of $205,320,611. Chastain continued to receive rave reviews for her performance in the 2011 film Take Shelter playing the wife of a small town man plagued by apocalyptic visions.^[21] In her next film role Chastain portrayed a young Mossad agent in John Madden's The Debt, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. The movie was released on August 31, 2011 and Chastain received positive reviews from critics and viewers for her portrayal of a young Helen Mirren. The movie went on to become a moderate box office hit.

On November 29, 2011, Chastain was announced as New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in The Help, Take Shelter and The Tree of Life as well as gaining an Independent Spirit Award nomination the same day for her performance in Take Shelter. On December 1, 2011, she received a Satellite Award nomination as best supporting actress for her performance as Mrs. O'Brien in The Tree of Life, she went on to win the award and many other honors from critics including the: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress. In April 2012, Chastain entered the list of Time 100 most influential people of the world.^[3]

Chastain has also completed a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome alongside Al Pacino and has filmed supporting roles for other adaptations such as Coriolanus. Her most recently announced project is John Hillcoat's prohibition era drama, Lawless.^[22]

Personal life[link]

Chastain has not revealed her age to the media, which has led to contradictory accounts of her age by various newspapers and periodicals. In an April 30, 1998, article about a stage production in which Chastain was starring, Metroactive magazine identified her as a 21-year-old.^[15] In a September 26, 2011, article, The Daily Telegraph stated that she was 30 years old: "'I don’t like revealing how old I am,' the 30-year-old tells me..."^[23] Other sources that state she was 30 years old at the time are a June 13, 2011, article in People magazine,^[11] and an article by Gary Oldman in a Time Magazine article published on April 18, 2012.^[3] The Associated Press and California birth records give her birthdate as March 24, 1977.^[24][25] A November 21, 2011, article in Mail Online referred to her as a 30-year-old,^[26] but a May 17, 2012 article in the same newspaper referred to her as 35.^[27]

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Television[link]

Theater[link]

Awards[link]

• Academy Awards
  • 2012 – NOMINATED Oscar Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (The Help)
• Austin Film Critics Association
  • 2011 – WON Austin Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (Take Shelter)
  • 2011 – WON Breakthrough Artist Award for (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
• BAFTA Awards
  • 2012 – NOMINATED BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help)
• Black Reel Awards
  • 2012 – WON Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
• British Film Bloggers Circle
  • 2012 – WON BFBC Award for Best Breakthrough (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2012 – WON Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble (The Help)
  • 2012 – NOMINATED Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help)
• Central Ohio Film Critics Association
  • 2012 – WON COFCA Award for Actress of the Year (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
  • 2012 – 2nd PLACE COFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Tree of Life)
  • 2012 – 2nd PLACE COFCA Award for Breakthrough Film Artist (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
  • 2012 – NOMINATED COFCA Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
  • 2012 – NOMINATED COFCA Award for Best Ensemble (The Tree of Life)
  • 2012 – NOMINATED COFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2011 – WON CFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Tree of Life)
• Deauville American Film Festival
  • 2011 – WON Deauville Acting Award for New Hollywood
• Denver Film Critics Society
  • 2012 – WON DFCS Award for Best Breakout Star
• Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards
  • 2011 – WON DFCC Award for Best Actress (The Tree of Life)
  • 2011 – WON DFCC Award for International Breakthrough (Take Shelter), (The Help) and (The Tree of Life)
• Detroit Film Critics Society
  • 2011 – WON DFCS Award for Best Breakthrough Performance (Take Shelter), (The Help), and (The Tree of Life)
  • 2011 – NOMINATED DFCS Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help)
  • 2011 – NOMINATED DFCS Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
• Elle Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute
  • 2010 – WON Elle Women in Hollywood Award for Calvin Klein Collection Emerging Star Spotlight Award
• Elle Style Awards
  • 2012 – WON Elle Style Award for Next Future Icon
• Georgia Film Critics Association
  • 2011 – WON GFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Tree of Life)
  • 2011 – WON GFCA Award for Breakthrough Award (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
• USA Golden Globes
  • 2012 – NOMINATED Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (The Help)
• Gotham Awards
  • 2011 – NOMINATED Best Ensemble Cast (Take Shelter)
• Gucci Award for Women in Cinema
  • 2011 – WON Women in Cinema Award (The Tree of Life)
• Hollywood Film Festival
  • 2011 – WON Hollywood Breakthrough Award (Take Shelter), (The Help), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
  • 2011 – WON Hollywood Film Award for Ensemble of the Year (The Help)
• Independent Spirit Awards
  • 2012 – NOMINATED Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female (Take Shelter)
• Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
  • 2012 – WON KCFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Tree of Life)
• London Critics Circle Film Awards
  • 2012 – NOMINATED ALFS Award for Supporting Actress of the Year (The Help)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2011 – WON LAFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
• National Board of Review
  • 2011 – WON NBR Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble (The Help)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards
  • 2012 – WON NSFC Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help), (The Tree of Life) and (Take Shelter)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards
  • 2011 – WON NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help), (The Tree of Life) and (Take Shelter)
• New York Film Critics Online
  • 2011 – WON NYFCO Award for Breakthrough Performer (Take Shelter), (The Help), (Texas Killing Fields), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (The Tree of Life)
• Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2012 – WON NFCS Award for Best Actress (The Help), (The Tree of Life) and (The Debt)
  • 2012 – WON NFCS Award for Best Ensemble Cast (The Help)
• Online Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2011 – WON OFCS Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Tree of Life)
  • 2011 – WON OFCS Award for Breakthrough Performer (The Help), (The Tree of Life) and (The Debt)
• Palm Springs International Film Festival
  • 2012 – WON Spotlight Award for (The Help), (The Tree of Life), (The Debt), (Coriolanus) and (Take Shelter)
• Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2011 – NOMINATED PFCS Award for Best Actress in Supporting Role (The Help)
• San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2011 – WON Special Award for (The Help), (The Tree of Life), (The Debt), (Texas Killing Fields), (Coriolanus) and (Take Shelter)
  • 2011 – NOMINATED SDFCS Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
  • 2011 – NOMINATED SDFCS Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help)
• Sant Jordi Awards
  • 2012 – 2nd PLACE Sant Jordi for Best Foreign Actress (The Tree of Life)
• Satellite Awards
  • 2011 – WON Satellite Award for Best Actress in Supporting Role (The Tree of Life)
  • 2011 – WON Special Achievement Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards
  • 2012 – WON Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (The Help)
  • 2012 – NOMINATED Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (The Help)
• Saturn Award
  • 2012 – PENDING^[a] Saturn Award for Best Actress (Take Shelter)^[28]
• Seattle International Film Festival
  • 2008 – WON Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress Jolene
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2011 – WON SEFCA Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
• Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2011 – WON TFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (Take Shelter)
  • 2011 – NOMINATED TFCA Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Tree of Life)
• Vancouver Film Critics Circle
  • 2012 – WON VFCC Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Help), (Take Shelter) and (The Tree of Life)
• Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2011 – NOMINATED WAFCA Award for Best Acting Ensemble (The Help)
• Women Film Critics Circle Awards
  • 2011 – WON WFCC Award for Best Ensemble (The Help)
  • 2011 – NOMINATED WFCC Award for Best Actress (The Help) and (The Debt)