Timothée Chalamet is an American actor. In 2014, he made his film debut in the comedy-drama Men, Women and Children. Off-screen, she is branded a sex symbol and a fashion icon.
Bio/Wiki
Age- 27 years
Height- 1.78 m
Weight-70kg
Born- 27 December 1995
Birthplace- New York, New York, United States
Profession- American-French actor
Nationality- American, French
Timothée Chalamet Personal Life
Timothée Chalamet was born on 27th December 1995 in New York City, United States to Nicole Flender and Marc Chalamet. She has an elder sister named Pauline Chalamet, who is an actress.
Timothée ‘s mother Nicole is a third-generation New Yorker, half-Russian, half-Austrian Jewish, she is a real estate agent with The Corcoran Group and a former Broadway dancer whereas Timothée ‘s father Marc is an editor for the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and a former New York correspondent for Le Parisien. He is from Nîmes and has a Protestant Christian background.
Timothée Chalamet Career
Acting
As a child, Chalamet appeared in several commercials and starred in two horror films, Sweet Tooth and Clown, before making his television debut in an episode of the long-running police procedural Law & Order (2009), playing a murder victim. He followed this with a small role in the TV movie Loving Leah (2009). In 2011, he made his stage debut in the Off-Broadway play The Talls, a 1970s comedy in which he played a sexually curious 12-year-old. The chief theater critic of the New York Daily News wrote, “Chalamet hilariously captures a young person’s awakening curiosity about sex.”
In 2012, he had recurring roles in the drama series Royal Pains and the thriller Homeland. Finn Walden, the rebellious son of the vice president. Along with the rest of the cast, Chalamet was nominated for a SAG Award for Best Ensemble. In 2014, Chalamet made his film debut in a small role in Jason Reitman’s Men, Women, and Children. That same year, he played the role of Tom Cooper, the son of Matthew McConaughey’s character, in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. The film received positive reviews, and critics praised the cast’s performances, and grossed over $700 million worldwide. Also in 2014, Chalamet had a supporting role in the comedy Worst Friends, which received a limited release and positive reviews.
The following year, Chalamet co-starred with Andrew Droz Palermo in the fantasy thriller One and Two, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival to mixed reviews before reaching a limited theatrical release.
His next role was playing a teenage version of James Franco’s character Stephen Elliott in Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries. In his last role in 2015, Chalamet portrayed Charlie Cooper, the dark grandson of Diane Keaton and John Goodman’s characters, in the critically acclaimed Christmas comedy Love the Coopers.
In 2016, Chalamet played Jim Quinn in the autobiographical play The Prodigal Son at the Manhattan Theater Club. Cast by playwright-director John Patrick Shanley and producer Scott Rudin, Chalamet played the younger Shanley, a disabled Bronx boy at a prestigious New Hampshire prep school in 1963. His performance was praised and he won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play and a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series. Chalamet also starred alongside Lily Rabe as troubled student Billy Mitman in Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens. Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter described Chalamet’s performance as “interesting” and “stunning”, and his character’s speech in Death of a Salesman was one of the best he had ever seen. Stephen Holden of the New York Times compared him to James Dean.
After three years in the project, Chalamet starred in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, based on André Aciman’s novel of the same name. The story revolves around Elio Perlman, a young man living in Italy in the 1980s, who falls in love with Oliver (Armie Hammer), a university student who has come to live with his family. In preparation, Chalamet learned to speak Italian and play piano and guitar. Call Me by Your Name premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim; critics particularly emphasized Chalamet’s performance. He won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor and was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award, all for Best Actor. He is the third youngest person to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and the youngest since 19-year-old Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms in 1939.
In his second film of 2017, Chalamet played Daniel, a promiscuous teenager who gets caught up in a drug deal over the summer, in Elijah Bynum’s directorial debut Hot Summer Nights. It received a limited theatrical release in 2018 and received mixed reviews from critics, although Chalamet praised K. Austin Collins of Vanity Fair, who called the “sensitivity” of his show “something special.” He played Kyle Scheible, a rich hipster in a group and newly in love with Saoirse Ronan’s character, in Greta Gerwig’s solo debut Lady Bird. Critics praised the ensemble cast, with Ty Burr of the Boston Globe calling particular attention to Chalamet’s “quiet” performance. In his last film of 2017, Scott Cooper’s The Western Enemies, Chalamet played a young soldier named Philippe DeJardin alongside Christian Bale.
Timothée Chalamet movies and TV Shows
In 2018, Chalamet joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Later that year, Chalamet played methamphetamine-addicted teenager Nic Sheff, who had a strained relationship with his father, journalist David Sheff (Steve Carell), in the drama Beautiful Boy. Directed by Felix Van Groeningen, the film is based on a pair of memoirs, the elder Sheff’s memoir of the same name and Nic Sheff’s Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamine. Owen Glieberman of Variety compared Chalamet’s performance in Call Me by Your Name, noting that “Nic, in his taciturn, millennial James Dean way, colorful and self-absorbed” a change from the “wonderful directness” he displayed. Elio Perlman role. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA Awards.
The following year, Chalamet starred in Woody Allen’s romantic comedy A Rainy Day in New York. The Me Too movement prompted a resurgence of the 1992 sexual abuse allegation against Allen. Chalamet said he was unable to answer questions about working with Allen due to his contractual obligations; the Huffington Post obtained a copy of Chalamet’s contract which disputed this. Chalamet donated his salary to the charities Time’s Up, LGBT Center of New York, and RAINN, and did not promote the film. Allen claimed in his 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing that Chalamet told Allen’s sister Letty Aronson that he only denounced him in an attempt to improve his chances of winning an Academy Award for Call Me by Your Name.
Chalamet next portrayed Henry V of England, a young prince who unwittingly ascends the English Throne, in David Michôd’s Netflix period drama The King, based on several plays from Shakespeare’s Henriad. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote, “Chalamet does robust work, straightening his lanky posture as he goes, rising into the role like a man ascendant”. In his third film release of 2019, Chalamet portrayed Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, a lovestruck teenager, in Little Women, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel of the same name. Marking his second collaboration with Gerwig and Ronan, the film was acclaimed by critics, two of whom—Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post—also praised Chalamet’s performance; with Travers noting that the actor portrays the role with “innate charm and poignant vulnerability,” while Hornaday highlighted his “languidly graceful” performance and its “playful physicality.”
Chalamet hosted an episode of the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2020. In 2021, Chalamet portrayed a student revolutionary in Wes Anderson’s ensemble comedy-drama The French Dispatch. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it generated positive reviews. Anderson wrote the role with Chalamet in mind. Brianna Zigler of Paste Magazine found him to be “perfectly attuned to Anderson’s highly specified wavelength”.
Chalamet starred as the main character Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of the science fiction novel Dune, which premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Villeneuve stated that Chalamet was his only choice to play the role: “I needed that for the audience to believe this young man will be able to lead a whole planet.” Dune received positive reviews with The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney praising his “magnetic pensiveness gives the coming-of-age element some heart” and Lewis Knight of Daily Mirror writing that “Timothée Chalamet completes his ascension to Hollywood leading man status”.
Dune earned over $400 million worldwide to emerge as his highest-grossing release. In his final role of the year 2021, Chalamet played a skater punk in Adam McKay’s Netflix ensemble comedy film Don’t Look Up. It received mixed reviews from critics. Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times found Chalamet “sweetly sincere” in his small part. The ensemble cast of the film was nominated for a SAG Award. Chalamet reunited with Guadagnino in the road film Bones and All (2022), in which he starred alongside Taylor Russell as cannibal drifters. The project marked his first production venture, and he credited Guadagnino for mentoring him through the process. Bones and All premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Leila Latif of IndieWire praised the chemistry between Chalamet and Russell and took note of his “near-peerless ability to gently weep”, and Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter added that “Chalamet reminded us why he’s the best actor of his generation”. That same year, he lent his voice to the Netflix adult animated musical special Entergalactic. Chalamet will next reprise the role of Paul Atreides in the sequel to Dune, titled Dune: Part Two, and play Willy Wonka in the musical film Wonka, directed by Paul King.
Timothée Chalamet Oscar
Hip-Hop
Timothée is a big fan of hip-hop music and considers rapper Kid Cudi the biggest inspiration in his career. He used to be a rapper who went by the name Lil’ Timmy Tim. He briefly had a rap career under the alias Lil’ Timmy Tim and wrote a song about how much he loved his high school statistics teacher, Ms. Lawton.
Timothée Chalamet Relationship
Timothée Chalamet began dating Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes in 2013. It lasted several years before they broke up nearly in 2017. Timothée and Lily-Rose dated from 2018 to 2020. They were first photographed together in October 2018. They both starred alongside Robert Pattinson in the Netflix movie The King. Timothée confirmed in the May 2020 issue of British Vogue that they are no longer dating.
Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet have maintained a high level of secrecy as one of Hollywood’s most private couples to date.
Timothée Chalamet Net Worth
Timothée has a net worth of $21 million. He has gathered her fortune by being an actor. His performance has created a large fan base for him.
Timothée Chalamet Education
Timothée attended elementary school at PS 87 William T. Sherman School and later MS 54 Booker T. Washington High School in Delta’s selective program, which he described as unfortunate because the school’s academically rigorous environment lacked a creative outlet. He applied and was accepted to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia College of Music, Arts, and Performing Arts. After high school, Chalamet, then 17, studied cultural anthropology for a year at Columbia University and then transferred to New York University’s Gallatin School of Individual Studies to pursue an acting career more freely.
Timothée Chalamet’s Latest News
Timothée Chalamet Openly Chooses His ‘Favorite’ Film among His Roles
Timothée Chalamet openly revealed his “favorite” among all the films he has starred in during a recent interview. The 27-year-old Oscar-nominated actor discussed various aspects of his career with Irish host Graham Norton, and the conversation is set to air on The Graham Norton Show on December 1.
In a departure from the usual reluctance of actors to pick favorites among their own works, Chalamet confidently shared with Norton that his latest film holds a special place in his heart. In this upcoming musical film, Chalamet takes on the role of Willy Wonka, a character from the world of Roald Dahl. The film is directed by Paul King, known for his work on “Paddington” and “Paddington 2.”
Anticipation for the film has been building, fueled by overwhelmingly positive early reactions that followed its premiere earlier in the week. Chalamet’s bold assertion only adds to the excitement surrounding the new project.
