Timothée Chalamet
Birthdate: Dec 27, 1995
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Timothée Chalamet (birthname: Timothée Hal Chalamet) has become, in less than five years since his breakout role in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017), one of his generation’s most talented movie actors, seeming to expand his range with each succeeding movie. To watch Chalamet on screen in chronological order is to watch a young actor develop, part by part, not unlike a young Robert De Niro.
His film career began with a tiny part in the starry cast of Jason Reitman’s small-town-Texas comedy-drama, Men, Women & Children (2014), with Emma Thompson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Ansel Elgort, J.K. Simmons, and Dennis Haysbert. Scoring a role in a Christopher Nolan movie—Interstellar (2014)-- at age 18 was a good sophomore move for Chalamet’s visibility, alongside Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Ellen Burstyn.
Chalamet was cast in his first co-lead role in Andrew Droz Palermo’s fantasy thriller, One & Two (2015), with Kiernan Shipka and Elizabeth Reaser, premiering at the 65th edition of the Berlin Film Festival. Chalamet joined cast members James Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard, Cynthia Nixon, and Christian Slater in Pamela Romanowsky’s true-crime The Adderall Diaries (2015), premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Chalamet was a small part of the cast of Lionsgate’s Christmas family comedy, Love the Coopers (2015), with Steve Martin, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, and Anthony Mackie, followed by writer-director Julia Hart’s well-reviewed feature debut, Miss Stevens (2016), with Lily Rabe, and premiering at SXSW festival. Timothée Chalamet’s breakthrough as a star came in 2017, opposite Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name, and earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination (making him the third-youngest ever nominated in this category).
Chalamet’s first starring role followed in Elijah Bynum’s writing-directing debut, Hot Summer Nights (2017), with Thomas Jane and William Fichtner, and released by rising indie distributor A24. Chalamet was memorably cast in another writing-directing debut, this one by Greta Gerwig in her autobiographical Lady Bird (2017), opposite the extraordinary cast of Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, and Beanie Feldstein.
After a small role in Scott Cooper’s acclaimed Western, Hostiles (2017), with Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, and Jesse Plemons, Chalamet co-starred with Steve Carell in his most intense role to date in Felix van Groeningen’s version of Nic and David Sheff’s joint memoirs, Beautiful Boy (2018), and released through Amazon Studios. Chalamet scored acting nominations from the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes, though he was snubbed for the Oscars.
Chalamet’s next was also via Amazon (which then dropped the film amidst massive controversy), starring in the little-seen Woody Allen rom-com, A Rainy Day in New York (2019), with Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Jude Law, Diego Luna, and Liev Schreiber. David Michôd’s Shakespearean epic, The King (2019), provided Chalamet with his grandest role as Henry V, alongside Joel Edgerton, Robert Pattinson, Lily-Rose Depp, and Sean Harris, and released by Netflix after a Venice film festival world premiere.
Rejoining writer-director Greta Gerwig for her second feature, Little Women (2019), Chalamet played romantic support to Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, and Meryl Streep. 2021 was a banner year for Chalamet, most prominently as the young hero, Paul Atreides, in Denis Villeneuve’s beautiful adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune, opposite Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, and Zendaya; this was followed up with the sequel, Dune: Part Two, set for release by Warner Bros. in 2024 under Villeneuve’s direction, and also featuring Lea Seydoux, Christopher Walken, and Florence Pugh.
Chalamet participated as an on-camera guest in Robert Alexander’s documentary portrait of singer-songwriter Kid Cudi, A Man Named Scott, and was a key member of Wes Anderson’s typically sprawling cast in The French Dispatch, which allowed Chalamet to show off his French side in a spoofy sketch involving revolutionary French students. Chalamet capped 2022 with a supporting role in Adam McKay’s ambitious social satire about the end of the world, Don’t Look Up, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, and Mark Rylance.
Reuniting with director Guadagnino, Chalamet co-starred with Taylor Russell in Bones & All (2022), a dark road movie about vagabonding cannibals, co-starring Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, and Jessica Harper, and premiering at the 2022 Venice film festival. Besides Dune: Part Two, Chalamet’s other major starring role in 2023 was as Young Willy Wonka in Warner Bros.’ Wonka, whose story (by director and co-writer Paul King, with Simon Farnaby) is a prequel to Roald Dahl’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. At least in 2023, the pair of projects makes Chalamet the face of Warner Bros., a rare stroke for any actor in this era.
Personal Details
New York-born Timothée Chalamet was raised by his mother Nicole Fender, a Manhattan real estate broker and former dancer and dance teacher, and father Marc Chalamet, an editor for UNICEF and a former French correspondent born in Nimes, France. His sister is actor-writer-director Pauline Chalamet. Chalamet’s extended family includes relatives in the film-TV business, including uncle (and actor-writer-director-producer) Rodman Flender and aunt (and writer-producer) Amy Lippman. Chalamet grew up bilingual in English and French, spending his childhood summer vacations at his French grandparents’ home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
His grade school education was at PS 87 William T. Sherman Elementary School, followed by MS 54 Booker T. Washington Middle School. He was accepted into the public target school, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, on the basis of his exceptional audition and despite his poor academic middle school record. Chalamet attended Columbia University with a cultural anthropology major but transferred to New York University and its Gallatin School of Individualized Study while he had already begun his professional acting career. Chalamet is single and lives in New York City. His height is 5’ 10”.
Awards
Nominee, Best Actor, Academy Awards (2018); Three-time Nominee, Rising Star Award/Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA Awards (2018, 2019); Winner, Best Actor, Independent Spirit Awards (2018); Three-time Nominee, Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Awards (2018, 2019, 2024); Winner, Best Actor, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (2017); Winner, Best Breakthrough Performance, National Board of Review (2017); Winner, Best Actor, New York Film Critics Circle Awards (2017); Five-time Nominee, Best Drama Series Ensemble/Best Actor/Best Motion Picture Cast/Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors Guild (2013, 2018, 2019, 2022).
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- 2024 | Dune: Part TwoasPaul Atreides
Dune: Part Two
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
- 2023 | Cannes - A Film makers story
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- 2022 | Entergalacticas Jimmy
- 2022 | Bones and AllasLee
Bones and All
A young woman embarks on a 1000 mile odyssey through America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their othe...
- 2021 | A Man Named Scott
- 2021 | Don’t Look UpasYule
Don’t Look Up
The story of two low-level astronomers, who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet earth.
- 2021 | The French DispatchasZeffirelli
The French Dispatch
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
- 2021 | Dune (2021)asPaul Atreides
Dune (2021)
A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.
- 2019 | A Rainy Day in New Yorkas Gatsby
- 2018 | Beautiful BoyasNic Sheff
Beautiful Boy
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many y...
- 2018 | Little WomenasLaurie
Little Women
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as...
- 2017 | Hot Summer Nightsas Daniel
- 2017 | Call Me by Your NameasElio
Call Me by Your Name
It's the summer of 1983, and 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, who's working as an intern for Elio's father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening ...
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- 2016 | Miss Stevensas Billy
- 2015 | The Adderall Diariesas Teenage Stephen
- 2015 | One and Twoas Zac
- 2015 | Love the CoopersasCharlie
Love the Coopers
The intertwined stories of four generations of Coopers unfold right before the annual family reunion on Christmas Eve. Can they survive the most beautiful time of the year?
- 2014 | InterstellarasTom (15 Yrs.)
Interstellar
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
- 2014 | Men, Women & Childrenas Danny Vance
Some Facts About Timothée Chalamet
Dual Citizen: Timothée Chalamet holds dual U.S. and French citizenship.
Sports Fan: Chalamet is a major fan of the New York Knicks and French La Ligue 2 team AS Saint-Etienne.
Good Damage Control: Amidst the massive controversy surrounding filmmaker Woody Allen and charges of pedophilia during the impending release of Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York, Chalamet donated his salary to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, Time’s Up, and New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
Oscar Bait: Not only was Timothée Chalamet one of the youngest-ever Best Actor nominees for the Oscars, he has starred or co-starred by age 26 in five movies nominated for Best Picture.
