Jessica Chastain has won the Oscar for best actress at the 94th Academy Awards, currently under way at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Trend reports citing The Guardian.
Chastain won the prize for her role as Tammy Faye Bakker, wife of controversial televangelist Jim Bakker, in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a biopic that outlined the Bakkers’ troubled marriage and Tammy Faye’s support for LGBT rights. The film was directed by Michael Showalter and features Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker, and Cherry Jones as Tammy Faye’s mother Rachel.
Chastain has already won numerous awards for her role in the film, including best actress at the Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards. Chastain is now third time lucky at the Oscars, having been nominated twice before, in the best supporting actress category for The Help in 2012, and as best actress for Zero Dark Thirty in 2013.