A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is set to be unveiled Thursday honoring Jessica Chastain for a movie career that has included winning a best actress Oscar and receiving two other Academy Award nominations.

Fellow Oscar winners Al Pacino and Viola Davis are set to join Chastain in speaking at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony at 6258 Hollywood Blvd., near the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.

Chastain has called Pacino her “acting godfather.” She co-starred with him in a 2006 production of the Oscar Wilde one-act tragedy “Salomé” at the Wadsworth Theatre at the Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Campus. The documentary “Wild Salomé,” about Wilde and the tragedy, was filmed during rehearsals and released in 2011. A film of the production edited from the documentary was released in 2013

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