Before They Were Stars: Jessica Chastain on “ER”

It’s become a fun tradition here at The Back Row for me to do “Before They Were Stars” features on the Academy Award nominees shortly after they’ve been announced. Jessica Chastain is one of those actresses who just seemed to come out of nowhere and has stared in a ton of high-profile movies these past two years, and she’s pretty much the favourite to take home the “Best Actress” Oscar this year for her role in Zero Dark Thirty. Anyway, to show that she didn’t literally just come out of nowhere, here’s one of her earliest roles on an episode of ER in 2004.