The Oscar-nominated actress plays real-life artist Catherine Weldon in the period drama Woman Walks Ahead (now available exclusively on DirecTV, in theaters June 29). Based on a true story ...

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.

In Woman Walks Ahead, a New York City activist and artist named Catherine Weldon (played by Jessica Chastain) travels across the United States to paint the great Native American chief Sitting Bull.

In the clip, the actress plays Catherine Weldon, an American widowed artist from New York that travels alone via train to North Dakota in pursuit of painting a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull ...

“I wanted to do the film because I was shocked about the story of Catherine Weldon,” Chastain said about the film at TheWrap’s interview studio at the Toronto International Film Festival.