In ‘Woman Walks Ahead,’ Jessica Chastain plays real-life figure Catherine Weldon, who befriended the Native American chief. Published: June 25, 2018 at 10:37 a.m. ET. Share.

A24 and DIRECTV have taken U.S. rights to Susana White's Woman Walks Ahead about widowed artist Catherine Weldon who travelled to North Dakota in the 1880s to paint Chief Sitting Bull.

Woman Walks Ahead tells the incredible true story of New York portrait artist Catherine Weldon, who travels alone to the Wild West’s Dakota territory to paint the great Chief Sitting Bull. Set ...

Jessica Chastain Drama ‘Woman Walks Ahead’ Nabbed by A24, DirecTV. Directed by Susanna White, the film centers on Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, who travels to ...

In "Woman Walks Ahead," Jessica Chastain plays Catherine Weldon, a painter from New York City who travels to North Dakota to paint the legendary Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Her trip turns overtly ...

She found Weldon had been born in Switzerland in 1838 as Caroline/Catherine Schlotter, arriving in America in 1871, and married Richard Weldon, having one son, Christopher, born in 1878.