Timothée Chalamet

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Timothée Chalamet

Chalamet in 2017

Born Timothée Hal Chalamet

December 27, 1995 (age 26)

New York City, U.S.

United States
Citizenship

France[1]

Alma mater Columbia University

New York University

Occupation Actor

Years active 2007–present

Relatives Pauline Chalamet (sister)

Rodman Flender (uncle)
 Amy Lippman (aunt)

Awards Full list

Signature

Timothée Hal Chalamet (English: /ˈtɪməθi ˈʃæləmeɪ/;  French: [timɔte ʃalamɛ]; born December 27, 1995)

[2][3]

is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy

Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Film Awards.
Born and raised in New York City, Chalamet began his career on the stage and in television
productions, appearing in the drama series Homeland in 2012. Two years later, he made his
feature film debut in the comedy-drama Men, Women & Children and appeared in Christopher
Nolan's science-fiction film Interstellar. Chalamet came into international attention with the lead
role of a lovestruck teenager in Luca Guadagnino's coming-of-age film Call Me by Your
Name (2017), earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He went on to
have supporting roles in Greta Gerwig's films Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), and
took on starring roles as Nic Sheff in the drama Beautiful Boy (2018) and as Paul
Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's science fiction film Dune (2021).
On stage, Chalamet starred in John Patrick Shanley's autobiographical play Prodigal Son in
2016, for which he won a Lucille Lortel Award and garnered a nomination for a Drama League
Award. Off-screen, he has been described in the media as a sex symbol and a fashion icon.

Contents

 1Early life and education

 2Career

o 2.1Early roles (2008–2016)

o 2.2Breakthrough and rise to prominence (2017–present)

 2.2.1Upcoming projects

 3Public image and fashion

 4Personal life

 5Acting credits

o 5.1Film

o 5.2Television

o 5.3Theater

 6Awards and nominations

 7Notes

 8References

 9External links
Early life and education
Timothée Hal Chalamet was born on December 27, 1995, in New York City, and grew up in the
federally subsidized artists' building Manhattan Plaza, in Hell's Kitchen.  He has an older [4][5]

sister, Pauline Chalamet, who is an actress.  His mother, Nicole Flender, is a third-generation

[5]

New Yorker, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent.  She is a real estate broker at The [6]

Corcoran Group,  and a former Broadway dancer; Flender earned her bachelor's degree

[7]

in French from Yale University, and has been a language and dance teacher.  His French father, [8][9]

Marc Chalamet, is an editor for the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and
former New York correspondent for Le Parisien.  Marc is from Nîmes and is of a Protestant
[5][10]

Christian background.  Timothée's paternal grandmother, who had moved to France, was

[9][11]

originally Canadian.  On his mother's side, he is a nephew of husband-and-wife filmmakers and
[12]

producers Rodman Flender and Amy Lippman. [13]

Chalamet is bilingual in English and French,  and holds dual United States and
[a][15]

French citizenship, due to his French father.  Growing up, Chalamet spent summers in Le
[16]

Chambon-sur-Lignon,  a small French village two hours away from Lyon, at the home of his
[17]

paternal grandparents. He stated that his time in France led to cross-cultural identity issues. [18]

 Chalamet attended PS 87 William T. Sherman School for elementary school, and later the
[19]

selective Delta program at MS 54 Booker T. Washington Middle School, which he described as

miserable due to the lack of a creative outlet within the school's academically rigorous
environment.  Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight (2008) inspired him to establish a
[20]

career in acting.  He applied to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
[21]

Performing Arts. His acceptance into the school was a turning point in his appreciation for
acting.  Harry Shifman, his sophomore-year drama teacher at LaGuardia,  was so impressed by
[22] [23]

his audition that he insisted on Chalamet's acceptance into the school even though he had been
rejected in the interview (due to his middle school record),  saying "I gave him the highest score [24]

I've ever given a kid auditioning."  During high school, Chalamet dated Madonna's daughter
[25]

Lourdes ("Lola") Leon, a fellow student, for a year.  He starred in school musicals as Emcee [5]

in Cabaret and Oscar Lindquist in Sweet Charity, graduating in 2013.  He is also [26][27]

a YoungArts alumnus. [28]

After high school, Chalamet, then 17, attended Columbia University for one year, majoring
in cultural anthropology, and was a resident of Hartley Hall.  He later transferred to New [17][29][30][31]

York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study to pursue his acting career more
freely,  having found it difficult to assimilate to Columbia directly after filming Interstellar.
[32]

 Upon leaving Columbia, Chalamet moved to Concourse, Bronx.

[33] [5][34]

Career
Early roles (2008–2016)
As a child, Chalamet appeared in several commercials and acted in two horror short films
called Sweet Tooth and Clown before making his television debut on an episode of the long-
running police procedural series Law & Order (2009), playing a murder victim.  He followed [17]

this with a minor role in the television film Loving Leah (2009). In 2011, he made his stage debut
in the Off-Broadway play The Talls, a coming-of-age comedy set in the 1970s, in which he
played a sexually curious 12-year-old. The chief theatre critic of New York Daily News wrote,
"Chalamet hilariously captures a tween's awakening curiosities about sex."  In 2012, he had [35][36]

recurring roles in the drama series Royal Pains and the thriller series Homeland, in which he
played Finn Walden, the rebellious son of the Vice President. Along with the rest of the cast,
Chalamet was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an
Ensemble in a Drama Series. [37]

Chalamet at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival

In 2014, Chalamet made his feature film debut in a minor role in Jason Reitman's Men, Women
& Children.  In the same year, he played the role of Tom Cooper, the son of Matthew
[38]

McConaughey's character, in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.  The film received positive [39]

reviews, with critics praising the cast's performances, and grossed over $700 million worldwide. [40]

 Also in 2014, Chalamet had a supporting role in Worst Friends, a comedy which had a limited
[41][42]

theatrical release and received positive reviews.  In the next year, Chalamet co-starred
[43]

in Andrew Droz Palermo's fantasy thriller One & Two, which premiered at the Berlin
International Film Festival, where it received mixed reviews, before its limited theatrical release.
 His next role was playing the teenage version of James Franco's character, Stephen Elliott,
[44][45][46]

in Pamela Romanowsky's The Adderall Diaries.  In his final role of 2015, Chalamet played
[47]

Charlie Cooper, the sullen grandson of Diane Keaton and John Goodman's characters in the
Christmas comedy Love the Coopers, which received negative reviews. [48]

In 2016, Chalamet starred as Jim Quinn in the autobiographical play Prodigal Son at Manhattan

Theatre Club. Handpicked by its playwright and director John Patrick Shanley and
producer Scott Rudin, Chalamet portrayed a younger Shanley, a misfit Bronx kid in a
prestigious New Hampshire prep school set in 1963.  His performance was praised and won him
[49]

the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play, in addition to a nomination for
the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance.  Chalamet also co-starred [50][51][52][53]

opposite Lily Rabe in Julia Hart's Miss Stevens as the troubled student Billy Mitman. Stephen
Farber of The Hollywood Reporter described Chalamet's act as "compelling" and "startling", with
his character's speech from Death of a Salesman as among the best he has ever seen.  Stephen [54]

Holden of The New York Times compared him to James Dean. [55]

Breakthrough and rise to prominence (2017–present)

After being attached to the project for three years, Chalamet starred in Luca Guadagnino's Call
Me by Your Name, based on the novel of the same name, by André Aciman.  The story revolves [56][57]
around Elio Perlman, a young man living in Italy during the 1980s, who falls in love with Oliver
(Armie Hammer), a university student who has come to stay with his family. In preparation,
Chalamet learned to speak Italian, as well as to play the piano and guitar.  Call Me by Your [33]

Name premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim;  critics particularly [58]

highlighted Chalamet's performance.  Olly Richards of Empire wrote, "In a film in which every
[59][60]

performance is terrific, Chalamet makes the rest look like they're acting. He alone would make
the film worth watching".  Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter stated that no performance
[61]

during the year "felt as emotionally, physically and intellectually alive" and included Chalamet
in the magazine's list of the best performances of the year.  Time and The New York Times also [62]

featured him in such lists.  He won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough
[63][64]

Actor and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead,  and received nominations for [65][66]

the Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA

Award, and Academy Award, all for Best Actor.  He is the third-youngest person to be [67][68][69][70]

nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the youngest since 19-year-old
Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms in 1939. [67][71]

Chalamet at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

In his second film of 2017, Chalamet played Daniel, a gawky teenager who gets swept up in the
drug-dealing business over the course of a summer, in Elijah Bynum's directorial debut, Hot
Summer Nights. It received a limited theatrical release in 2018 and generated mixed reviews
from critics, though Chalamet received praise from K. Austin Collins of Vanity Fair, who called
the "sensitivity" in his performance "something special".  Later that year, he played Kyle [72][73][74]

Scheible, a rich hipster in a band and a love interest of Saoirse Ronan's character in Lady Bird,
the solo directorial debut of Greta Gerwig.  Critics praised the ensemble cast, with Ty
[75]

Burr of The Boston Globe taking particular note of Chalamet's "hilarious" performance.  In his [76]

final film of 2017, Scott Cooper's western Hostiles, Chalamet played a young soldier Philippe
DeJardin, Christian Bale. [18]

In 2018, Chalamet joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  Later that year, [77]

Chalamet portrayed Nic Sheff, a teenager addicted to methamphetamine who shares a strained

relationship with his father, the journalist David Sheff (portrayed by Steve Carell), in the
drama Beautiful Boy. Directed by Felix Van Groeningen, the film is based on a pair of memoirs
—the elder Sheff's memoir of the same name and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by
Nic Sheff.  Owen Glieberman of Variety drew comparisons with Chalamet's performance in Call
[78]

Me by Your Name, stating that "Nic, in his muffled millennial James Dean way, [as] skittery and
self-involved" is a transformation from the "marvelous directness" he displayed in the role of
Elio Perlman.  He received nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globe, Screen
[79]

Actors Guild, and BAFTA award ceremonies. [80]

Chalamet promoting The King at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival

The following year, Chalamet starred in Woody Allen's romantic comedy A Rainy Day in New
York.  The Me Too movement prompted a resurgence of the 1992 sexual abuse allegation against
[81]

Allen. Chalamet said he was unable to answer questions about working with Allen due to his
contractual obligations; the Huffington Post obtained a copy of Chalamet's contract which
disputed this.  Chalamet donated his salary to the charities Time's Up, LGBT Center of New
[82]

York, and RAINN,  and did not promote the film.  Allen claimed in his 2020 memoir Apropos
[83][84][85] [86]

of Nothing that Chalamet told Allen's sister Letty Aronson that he only denounced him in an

attempt to improve his chances of winning an Academy Award for Call Me by Your Name.
 Chalamet next portrayed Henry V of England, a young prince who unwittingly ascends
[87]

the English Throne, in David Michôd's Netflix period drama The King, based on several plays

from Shakespeare's Henriad.  Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote, "Chalamet does robust
[88][89]

work, straightening his lanky posture as he goes, rising up into the role like a man ascendant".
 In his third film release of 2019, Chalamet portrayed Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, a lovestruck
[90]

teenager, in Little Women, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name.
Marking his second collaboration with Gerwig and Ronan,  the film was acclaimed by critics, [91]

 two of whom—Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post—

[92]

also praised Chalamet's performance; with Travers noting that the actor portrays the role with
"innate charm and poignant vulnerability," while Hornaday highlighted his "languidly graceful"
performance and its "playful physicality."  Chalamet hosted an episode of the sketch comedy [93][94]

series Saturday Night Live in 2020. [95]

In 2021, Chalamet portrayed a student revolutionary in Wes Anderson's ensemble comedy-

drama The French Dispatch.  The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival,
[96][97]

where it generated positive reviews.  Anderson wrote the role with Chalamet in mind.  Brianna[98] [99]

Zigler of Paste Magazine found him to be "perfectly attuned to Anderson's highly specified

wavelength".  He also starred as the main character Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's film
[100]

adaptation of the science fiction novel Dune, which premiered at the 78th Venice International
Film Festival.  Villeneuve stated that Chalamet was his only choice to play the role: "I needed
[101]

that for the audience to believe this young man will be able to lead a whole
planet."  Dune received positive reviews with The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney praising
[102]

his "magnetic pensiveness [that] gives the coming-of-age element some heart" and Lewis Knight
of Daily Mirror writing that "Timothée Chalamet completes his ascension to Hollywood leading
man status".  Dune earned over $400 million worldwide.
[103][104] [105]

In his final role of the year, Chalamet played Yule, a skater punk, in Adam McKay's
ensemble Netflix original comedy film Don't Look Up.  Released in December 2021, it received [106]

mixed reviews from critics.  Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times found Chalamet "sweetly
[107]

sincere" in his small part.  The ensemble cast of the film received a nomination for the Screen
[108]

Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. [109]
Upcoming projects

Chalamet will star in the romance-horror film Bones & All, reuniting with Luca Guadagnino.
 He will reprise the role of Paul Atreides in the sequel to Dune, titled Dune: Part Two, and
[110]

play Willy Wonka in the musical film Wonka, directed by Paul King.  He is also set to star in [111][112]

the upcoming adult animated music television series based on the upcoming album of the same
name by American musician and actor Kid Cudi. The series will premiere on Netflix. [113]

Public image and fashion

Chalamet in 2018

Several media publications consider Chalamet to be among the most talented actors of his
generation.  Remarking upon his performance in Beautiful Boy, Kenneth Turan of the Los
[114][115]

Angeles Times wrote that "he might be the male actor of his generation".  In 2018, he appeared [116]

in Forbes's 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list. [117]

Chalamet has been described by the media as a sex symbol  and a fashion icon,  with his hair,
[118][119][120] [121]

jawline, and androgynous looks highlighted as his trademarks.  Vogue named him the most

[122][123]

influential man in fashion in 2019, and credits him for continuing "to ply the boundary between
traditional masculinity and femininity" writing "those fashion choices are all the more impressive
considering that Chalamet styles himself".  In 2020, GQ ranked him as the best-dressed man in
[124]

the world. [125]

Chalamet served as one of the co-chairs of the 2021 Met Gala alongside singer Billie Eilish,
professional tennis player Naomi Osaka, and poet Amanda Gorman. The event was part of
the Costume Institute's exhibit In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.  In September 2021, Chalamet [126]

became a brand ambassador for Cartier.  In December 2021, Chalamet, alongside close
[127]

collaborator Haider Ackermann, designed a hoodie with 100% of the proceeds going

to French organization Afghanistan Libre, which is centered around preserving the rights of
women in Afghanistan.  At the 94th Academy Awards, Chalamet wore a sequined Louis
[128]

Vuitton jacket from Nicolas Ghesquière's womenswear collection without a shirt; W declared

that he had "rewritten the gentleman's Oscar dress code for good", highlighting the boundary-
pushing outfit which "blurred the lines of fashion's traditional gender divide". [129]

Personal life
Chalamet lives in New York.  He is an avid sports fan and dreamed of being a professional
[130]

soccer player in his youth.  He is a lifelong supporter of the New York Knicks and the French
[17]

soccer team AS Saint-Étienne.  Chalamet is also a fan of hip-hop music,  and considers
[131][132] [133]

rapper Kid Cudi to be his biggest career inspiration. [5]

Acting credits
Film
Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year Title Role Notes Ref.

Men, Women & Children Danny Vance [38]

2014 Interstellar Young Tom Cooper [39]

Worst Friends Young Sam [43]

One & Two Zac [44]

2015 The Adderall Diaries Teenage Stephen Elliott [47]

Love the Coopers Charlie Cooper [48]

2016 Miss Stevens Billy Mitman [54]

2017 Call Me by Your Name Elio Perlman [56]

Hot Summer Nights Daniel Middleton [74]

Lady Bird Kyle Scheible [75]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.

Hostiles Pvt. Philippe DeJardin [18]

2018 Beautiful Boy Nic Sheff [78]

A Rainy Day in New

Gatsby Welles [81]

York

2019
The King King Henry V [89]

Little Women Theodore "Laurie" Laurence [91]

The French Dispatch Zeffirelli B. [100]

Dune Paul Atreides [102]

2021

A Man Named Scott Himself Documentary [134]

Don't Look Up Yule [108]

2022 Bones & All Lee Post-production; also producer [110]

[112]

2023 Wonka Willy Wonka Post-production