Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish and of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. He is the brother of actress Pauline Chalamet, a nephew of director Rodman Flender, and a grandson of screenwriter Harold Flender.He grew up in an artistic family, appearing in commercials and the New York theatre scene, and attending the LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts, where his classmate and friend was actor Ansel Elgort (the two later received their first Golden Globe nominations in the same year, 2017). For a time, Timothée also attended Columbia University.He made his film debut in 2014, as a high school student in Jason Reitman's Uwiązani (2014) and Matthew McConaughey's character's teenage son in Interstellar (2014). He subsequently had sizable roles in several indie films, playing the younger version of writer Stephen Elliott in The Adderall Diaries (2015), the male lead, Zac, in the drama Jeden, dwa (2015), and Billy in the road trip drama Miss Stevens (2016). On stage, he has appeared in the plays The Talls, by Anna Kerrigan, and John Patrick Shanley's autobiographical Prodigal Son, while on television, he has had a minor role in the film Kochając Leah (2009), a big part in Prawo i porządek (1990), and meatier roles on the shows Bananowy doktor (2009) and Homeland (2011), among other work.He broke out in 2017, appearing in notable supporting roles, as a soldier in the western Hostiles (2017) and a high school crush of the title character in Lady Bird (2017), and in a leading role as Elio, an Italian Jewish 17-year-old who romances... his father's older assistant, played by Armie Hammer, in the Luca Guadagnino drama Tamte dni, tamte noce (2017). Timothée's role as Elio received significant critical acclaim, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Drama, and won many critics' groups' awards for Best Actor of the Year.In 2018, he starred as Nic Sheff, who suffers from substance abuse problems, in the drama Mój piękny syn (2018). In 2019, he headlined the Woody Allen comedy W deszczowy dzień w Nowym Jorku (2019), with Selena Gomez, played Henry V of England, King from 1413 to 1422, in the historical drama Król (2019), and embodied love interest Laurie in Greta Gerwig's take on Małe kobietki (2019).show more