He starred in school musicals as Emcee in Cabaret and Oscar Lindquist in Sweet Charity, graduating in 2013. Harry Shifman, his sophomore-year drama teacher at LaGuardia, was so impressed by 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 I've ever given a kid auditioning." During high school, Chalamet dated Madonna's daughter Lourdes ("Lola") Leon, a fellow student, for a year. His acceptance into the school was a turning point in his appreciation for acting. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight (2008) inspired him to establish a career in acting. Washington Middle School, which he described as miserable due to the lack of a creative outlet within the school's academically rigorous environment. Sherman School for elementary school, and later the selective Delta program at MS 54 Booker T. He stated that his time in France led to cross-cultural identity issues. Growing up, Chalamet spent summers in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small French village two hours away from Lyon, at the home of his paternal grandparents. 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.
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). 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. 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.
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He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Film Awards.īorn 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. Timothée Hal Chalamet ( English: / ˈ t ɪ m ə θ i ˈ ʃ æ l ə m eɪ/ French: born December 27, 1995) is an American actor.