Jessica Chastain wins best actress Oscar for ‘ The Eyes of Tammy Faye’

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LOS ANGELES, March 27 (Reuters) – Jessica Chastain won the Academy Award on Sunday for best lead actress for her mascara-laden title role as the on-air preaching partner and wife of Christian televangelist Jim Bakker

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The Oscar triumph for Chastain, 45, virtually unrecognizable in heavy makeup as Tammy Faye Bakker,

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Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance and capped the third Academy Award nomination of her career.

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She was previously nominated for an Oscar for 2012 portrayal of a CIA analyst on the hunt of Osama Bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty” and her 2011 supporting role as a Southern socialite in the 1960s racial drama “The Help.”

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Chastain’s latest film charted the real-life story of evangelical power couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who built their PTL Club television ministry into a worldwide Christian

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But their lucrative empire crumbled in a series of highly publicized sex and financial scandals in 1987,

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Tammy Faye later married and took the last name of developer Roe Messner as she rebuilt her reputation through a documentary and reality show before her cancer death in 2007.

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