Timothée Chalamet Biography

Timothée Chalamet

Date of Birth: December 27, 1995

Born and raised in New York City, Timothée Chalamet is the grandson of screenwriter Harold Flender.

At age 13, Timothée, who has a French father, landed his first summer job as a soccer coach in a tiny town in the north of France.

As a student of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Timothée began his professional acting career at an early age, appearing in commercials and in plays.

After making his screen debut in short films, Timothée made his TV debut in 2009 with a guest appearance on an episode of Law & Order and in a TV movie titled Loving Leah.

In 2012 he played recurring roles on two TV series: Royal Pains and Homeland.

Timothée's film debut came in 2014, playing a high school student alongside Ansel Elgort, a friend and classmate from LaGuardia High School, in Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children (2014). Timothée then played the son of Matthew McConaughey's character in Interstellar (2014).

More roles followed, mostly in lesser-known indie films, but in 2017, Timothée gained attention when he appeared in a number of critically acclaimed films. He played a supporting role as a high school student opposite Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird, a young soldier opposite Chrisian Bale in the western Hostiles and a starring role as an Italian teenager who struggles with his sexual orientation as he falls for his father's older assistant (played by Armie Hammer) in the film festival favorite Call Me by Your Name. For his role in the latter film, Timothée earned Best Actor nominations from the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the BAFTAs. He also won awards from numerous Critics associations.

Timothée filmed a starring role in Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York (2018) alongside Jude Law, Selena Gomez and Elle Fanning, but since learning about the sexual abuse claims against Allen, he announced he would be donating his entire salary from the film to three different charities: Times's Up, The LGBT Center in New York and RAINN, an anti-sexual violence organization. The same year, he starred opposite Steve Carell in the drama Beautiful Boy(2018). He also appeared as Theodore "Laurie" Laurence in the upcoming film Little Women(2019), alongside Emma Watson and Saoirse Ronan.

He made an appearance in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch (2021), and the same year he played Paul Atreides in the blockbuster Dune (2022). In 2023, he won more fans when he took on the role of Willy Wonka in the musical Wonka (2023). The next year, he reprised his role as Paul Atreides in the sequel, Dune: Part Two (2024). The film received many awards and nominations, including a Best Picture nod from the 2025 Academy Awards. Timothée was nominated in Best Actor category the same year, but not for his role in Dune: Part Two. He was nominated for his starring role as young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown (2024).

Timothée, who lives in NYC, has a pet turtle named Urdle.

Photo credit: Hubert Boesl/Keystone Press via ZUMA Press

Filmography:

Marty Supreme (2025)
A Complete Unknown (2024)
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Wonka (2023)
Entergalactic (2022)
Bones and All (2022)
Dune: Part One (2021)
Little Women (2019)
Beautiful Boy (2018)
A Rainy Day in New York (2018)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Hostiles (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
Hot Summer Nights (2017)
Miss Stevens (2016)
Love the Coopers (2015)
The Adderall Diaries (2015)
One and Two (2015)
Worst Friends (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
Men, Women & Children (2014)