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Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life' Co-Star Jessica Chastain Set to Break Out

Jessica Chastain may be the busiest actress in Hollywood people haven't heard of yet. With as many as half a dozen films rolling into theaters in the coming months, she's about to become famous fast.A veteran stage actress, Chastain's big-screen career has been largely in a holding pattern, with only two of the 11 films she's made in the past four years released so far.That changes Friday as the Cannes Film Festival winner – Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," in which she co-stars with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn – opens theatrically after a long delay while the director continued to tinker with the film.Some of her other films, among them the Holocaust-revenge thriller "The Debt" with Helen Mirren , were delayed because of distribution troubles, so they now are coming to theaters around the same time as dramas she shot more recently, including this summer's best-seller adaptation "The Help."Three other Chastain films – "Coriolanus" with Ralph Fiennes, "Take Shelter" with Michael Shanno...

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