
Ĭhalamet is bilingual in English and French, and holds dual United States and French citizenship. On his mother's side, he is a nephew of husband-and-wife filmmakers and producers Rodman Flender and Amy Lippman. Timothée's paternal grandmother, who had moved to France, was originally Canadian. Marc is from Nîmes and is of a Protestant Christian background. His French father, Marc Chalamet, is an editor for the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and former New York correspondent for Le Parisien. She is a real estate broker at The Corcoran Group, and a former Broadway dancer Flender earned her bachelor's degree in French from Yale University, and has been a language and dance teacher. His mother, Nicole Flender, is a third-generation New Yorker of half Russian Jewish and half Austrian Jewish descent. He has an older sister, Pauline Chalamet, who is an actress. 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. 2.1 Early roles and acting background (2008–2016).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. In 2021, he starred as the lead role of Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's epic science fiction film Dune and had roles in the ensemble casts of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch and Adam McKay's Don't Look Up. In 2019, Chalamet starred as Henry V of England and Theodore "Laurie" Laurence in the period dramas The King and Gerwig's Little Women, respectively. He then portrayed Nic Sheff in the autobiographical drama Beautiful Boy (2018), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Film Award. His performance in Call Me by Your Name earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor at 22 years old, it made him the third-youngest nominee in the category. Chalamet came into international attention in 2017 with his role as Elio Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's coming-of-age romantic drama Call Me by Your Name and in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film Lady Bird.

Two years later, he made his feature film debut in the comedy-drama Men, Women & Children and appeared in the science-fiction film Interstellar.

LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and Columbia University, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Critics' Choice Movie Awards.īorn and raised in New York City, Chalamet began his career on the stage and in television productions, co-starring in the drama series Homeland in 2012. Timothée Hal Chalamet ( English: / ˈ t ɪ m ə θ i ˈ ʃ æ l ə m eɪ/ TIM-ə-thee SHAL-ə-may, French: born December 27, 1995) is an American actor.
