Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, toNicole 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 Polish Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. He is the brother of actressPauline Chalamet,a nephew of directorRodman Flender,and a grandson of screenwriterHarold 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 actorAnsel 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 inJason Reitman'sMen, Women & Children (2014)andMatthew McConaughey's character's teenage son inInterstellar (2014).He subsequently had sizable roles in several indie films, playing the younger version of writer Stephen Elliott inThe Adderall Diaries (2015),the male lead, Zac, in the dramaOne and Two (2015),and Billy in the road trip dramaMiss Stevens (2016).On stage, he has appeared in the plays The Talls, byAnna Kerrigan,andJohn Patrick Shanley's autobiographical Prodigal Son, while on television, he has had a minor role in the filmLoving Leah (2009),a big part inLaw & Order (1990),and meatier roles on the showsRoyal Pains (2009)andHomeland (2011),among other work.

He broke out in 2017, appearing in notable supporting roles, as a soldier in the westernHostiles (2017)and a high school crush of the title character inLady Bird (2017),and in a leading role as Elio, an Italian Jewish 17-year-old who romances his father's older assistant, played byArmie Hammer,in theLuca GuadagninodramaCall Me by Your Name (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 dramaBeautiful Boy (2018).In 2019, he headlined theWoody AllencomedyA Rainy Day in New York (2019),withSelena Gomez,played Henry V of England, King from 1413 to 1422, in the historical dramaThe King (2019),and embodied love interest Laurie in Greta Gerwig's take onLittle Women (2019).