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Speaks French almost fluently (he puts himself at 97% fluent, because he mistakes certain gendered nouns) and learned how to speak Italian while shooting Chiamami col tuo nome (2017).

Christopher Nolan cast him Interstellar saying that his talent was immediately apparent in the audition. He would've considered casting him in the war ensemble Dunkirk (2017) if he were British.

His name is properly pronounced Timo-TAY but he also accepts the English pronunciation Timothy, and nicknames Tim and Timmy. He chooses to go by Timothy because he doesn't like requiring all people to use the French version, as he finds that "pretentious" and "unrelatable".

Auditioned for the role of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016). He lost out to Tom Holland.

Plays the piano and guitar, the former of which he played for the role of Elio in Chiamami col tuo nome (2017).

In 2017, became the youngest winner of the NYFCC's Best Actor prize, for Chiamami col tuo nome (2017).

Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. He is the son of Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor, and Nicole Flender, a dancer and real estate broker.

Though he started acting a child doing commercials, which he says he hated and only did it because New York children are often approached about it, he was inspired to do it professionally after seeing Heath Ledger's performance in Il cavaliere oscuro (2008). He also credits Kid Cudi with the reason he is an actor.

Auditioned for Bates Motel (2013) but used the wrong Psycho reference point (thinking it was American Psycho) so he didn't get the role. Freddie Highmore did.

He has appeared in seven films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Chiamami col tuo nome (2017), Lady Bird (2017), Piccole donne (2019), Dune (2021), Don't Look Up (2021), Dune - Parte due (2024) and A Complete Unknown (2024).

Il re (2019)'s promotional poster came from a candid photo of him sitting and listening to director David Michôd, the poster was simply shaded and edited darker.

He and Ansel Elgort attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts at the same time. He maintains when he auditioned for school plays he didn't get the roles because Ansel did, so he was relegated to the talent shows. This is mostly true as their drama teacher did cast Ansel in Hairspray and Guys and Dolls, but Timothée did get cast as the lead in Sweet Charity. Directly after high school, they co-starred in the film Men, Women & Children (2014).

As of 2024, he has been nominated for 2 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAs, and 7 SAGs.

In high school, he dated Madonna's daughter Lola (his classmate).

After Interstellar, which he thought would be his breakout role (only for it to be a minor one), Timothée had a streak of rejections and would get upset watching movies he had auditioned for or even watching movies with actors his age.

By age 26, he has appeared in five films that have been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Despite his distinctly French first and last names, Timothée is of only one quarter French ancestry. His other roots are one quarter British Isles and one half Ashkenazi Jewish.

He spent his first big paycheck (from a Disney commercial) on season tickets for the Knicks, thinking LeBron James was going to join the team in his 2010 free agency. He had to scalp the tickets daily after school.

His father was raised in Lille, France and his mother is from New York City. Timothée's paternal grandfather, The Rev. Roger Chalamet, was a French Protestant minister, from Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, and Timothée's paternal grandmother, Jean (Ashworth), moved from Ontario, Canada to France, and was of British Isles ancestry. Timothée's mother is Jewish (of half Polish Jewish and half Russian Jewish ancestry). Timothée's maternal grandparents, Harold Flender and Enid (Rodman), were born in The Bronx, New York, both of them to Jewish emigrant parents.

Was still only 17 when he started college at Columbia University. (He now attends New York University).

Auditioned for the role of Patrick in Manchester by the Sea (2016). He lost out to Lucas Hedges.

He is a huge fan of Paul Thomas Anderson, whom he has described as one of his heroes, and has named Ubriaco d'amore (2002) as one of his favorite films.

Despite having an Italian instructor to prepare for Call Me by Your Name, he cannot speak the language and says would have preferred to do it phonetically.

Prefers doing theatre.

Also uses a French passport.

Timothée's American mother Nicole graduated from Yale with a BA in French and is fluent; she has taught French in the New York City public school system since the '90s.

His maternal grandfather Harold Flender wrote for Sid Caesar in the 1950s, along with Woody Allen. When Allen later cast Timothée in his film Un giorno di pioggia a New York (2019), he was initially unaware of the family relation.

His eyes are actually blue with a large hazel iris, giving them a faux "green" appearance.

Brother of actress Pauline Chalamet and nephew of writer, producer, and director Amy Lippman.

Missed about half of his senior year to film Homeland.

Wants to direct and produce music one day.

Timothée's maternal uncle is director Rodman Flender. Timothée's maternal grandfather was writer and screenwriter Harold Flender.

He was originally going to be rejected from LaGuardia, but his sophomore drama teacher insisted upon his enrollment and gave him the highest score.

Before fame, Samuel L. Jackson once worked as a security guard for the apartment building he grew up in. Alicia Keys also grew up there.

Among movies he auditioned for but never got a response or call back include The Neon Demon (2016), Cocaine - La vera storia di White Boy Rick (2018), La teoria del tutto (2014), Miss Peregrine - La casa dei ragazzi speciali (2016), and Manchester by the Sea (2016).

He is the first person born in the 1990s to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Chiamami col tuo nome (2017), fourteen years after Keisha Castle-Hughes became the first person born in the 1990s to be nominated for an acting Oscar (Best Actress, for La ragazza delle balene (2002), in the ceremony for 2003). Lucas Hedges and Dev Patel are the first males born in the 1990s to have been nominated for acting (Best Supporting Actor, for Manchester by the Sea (2016) and Lion - La strada verso casa (2016), respectively). He is also the first male born in the decade to have been nominated for two acting Oscars, with A Complete Unknown (2024) being the second nominated role.

Of his time at Columbia, he said he felt like another product on the factory line.

His parents met while his dad was on a business trip to New York.

Timothée is the French form of Timothy. In the French version of the Bible, Timothée is the companion of St. Paul. It is a masculine name. The name is pronounced in French as tim-o-tay.

While his became the number one movie internationally (Woody Allen's Un giorno di pioggia a New York (2019)), at the same time his sister Pauline Chalamet co-starred in the number one movie in America (Judd Apatow's The King of Staten Island).

Is a huge fan of French football (soccer) team AS Saint-Etienne ("les Verts").

Appeared in six films honored by the American Film Institute as ranking amongst the ten best American movies of their respective years; Interstellar (2014), Lady Bird (2017), Chiamami col tuo nome (2017), Piccole donne (2019), Don't Look Up (2021) and Dune (2021).

Considers Kiernan Shipka to be his little sister.

While living in the Bronx, he lived two streets away from Yankee Stadium.

Became the third actor to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical for playing Willy Wonka, with the film Wonka (2023). The first two being Gene Wilder for Willy Wonka e la fabbrica di cioccolato (1971) and Johnny Depp for La fabbrica di cioccolato (2005).

He was the original choice to play Oliver Quick in Saltburn (2023). Barry Keoghan landed the role.

He appeared with Saoirse Ronan in four different projects: Great Performers: Horror Show (2017), Lady Bird (2017), Piccole donne (2019) and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021). Greta Gerwig directed two of the films, and the trio almost got reunited in Barbie (2023) where Chalamet and Ronan would have cameos.

His first album was 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'.

Born at 9:16pm-EST.

Grew up in Manhattan Plaza, moderate income housing for performing artists in New York City.