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Jessica Chastain joined by co-star Tom Hiddleston for early birthday bash featuring karaoke and ping pong

PUBLISHED: 12:45 EST, 24 March 2014 | UPDATED: 15:51 EST, 24 March 2014

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Jessica Chastain turned 37 on Monday, but she got the celebration started early.

The star and her guests lived it up with ping pong, karaoke and dinner at Brassaii, in Toronto.

Guests included her Crimson Park co-star Tom Hiddleston and her boyfriend, Italian fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo.

Happy birthday to you: Jessica Chastain blew out the candles on her cake at a party over the weekend

Nearest and dearest: Jessica and her friends, including her boyfriend (in blue jacket) and co-star Tom Hiddleston, third from left, enjoy themselves

The Zero Dark Thirty star, who frequently shares news with her fans on Facebook, posted shots of her birthday bash on her social media page.

'Hello lovelies, My friends have traveled to Toronto to begin the Birthday festivities,' she wrote on her Facebook page.

'There was a delicious dinner at Brassaii, ping pong matches, crazy dancing, and karaoke. The past few years has been so wonderful and full of work that I sometimes feel like I live on a film set.'

The Interstellar star added: 'It was great to spend time with my nearest and dearest. It's a reminder of what's important in life.'

Strumming along: Jessica posed with a friend and a banjo during the party in Toronto

Ladies night: The Zero Dark Thirty actress posed with her female guests, and that banjo again

The flame-haired beauty looked stunning in a flirty black dress with sheer horizontal stripes and an A-line skirt, which she paired with black tights and black heels.

Though Jessica spends a lot of her time working, she doesn't mind being busy and recently spoke of how "lucky" she felt after completing work on A Most Violent Year.

She said: 'Working with talent like JC Chandor and Oscar Isaac are the reason I love my job. I'm a very lucky girl.'

Table tennis, anyone: The partygoers amused themselves with pingpong and karaoke on Jessica's big day

In the action-crime film, due out next year, she and Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) play owners of a heating oil business in New York 1981. Their ambitious characters cross paths with criminals as the city surges with violence.

The drama - directed by Margin Call's J.C. Chandor - also features Albert Brooks, David Oyelowo, and Catalina Sandino Moreno.

She has been busy in Toronto filming Crimson Peak, a gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro and co-starring HIddleston and Charlie Hunnam. It's due out next year.

Song and dance: Jessica gets a move on while performing karaoke at her birthday party

The Golden Globe winner will next provide her voice for the four-part enlightenment documentary Unity - due out March 1 - alongside Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Aniston, Joaquin Phoenix.

And she'll also take on the title role in this year's period drama Miss Julie with Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton.

Adding to her busy slate, she stars in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi flick Interstellar - due out November 7 - with Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, John Lithgow, and Ellen Burstyn.

Receiving line: The two-time Oscar nominee gets ready to hit a shot during an intense match

And if that wasn't enough, she has two other films set up for 2015.

She'll star in the period drama The Zookeeper's Wife, about the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

And in The Secret Scripture, she stars as a woman who keeps a diary during her extended stay in a mental hospital. It co-stars Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave, who plays the elderly version of Jessica's character.