Timothée Hal Chalamet is an American actor who was born December 27, 1995 in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, United States. He grew up in the federally subsidized artists’ building Manhattan Plaza in Hell’s Kitchen. He has an older sister, Pauline Chalamet, who is an actress.
Timothée’s paternal grandmother, who had moved to France, was originally Canadian. On his mother’s side, he is a nephew of husband-and-wife filmmakers and producers Rodman Flender and Amy Lippman. As a child, Chalamet appeared in several commercials and acted in two horror short films called Sweet Tooth and Clown before making his television debut on an episode of the long-running police procedural series Law & Order (2009), playing a murder victim.
Chalamet is bilingual in English and French, and holds dual United States and French citizenship, due to his French father. 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. He stated that his time in France led to cross-cultural identity issues. Chalamet attended PS 87 William T. Sherman School for elementary school, and later the selective Delta program at MS 54 Booker T. Washington Middle School, which he described as miserable due to the lack of a creative outlet within the school’s academically rigorous environment. Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight (2008) inspired him to establish a career in acting.
In 2011, he made his stage debut in the Off-Broadway play The Talls, a coming-of-age comedy set in the 1970s, in which he played a sexually curious 12-year-old. In 2012, he had recurring roles in the drama series Royal Pains and the thriller series Homeland, in which he played Finn Walden, the rebellious son of the Vice President.
He has received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Film Awards. Chalamet began his career as a teenager in television productions, appearing in the drama series Homeland in 2012. Chalamet began his career as a teenager in television productions, appearing in the drama series Homeland in 2012. In 2014 he made his film debut in the comedy-drama Men, Women & Children and appeared in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar.
Timothée Chalamet parents
Timothée Chalamet’s mother Nicole Flender, is a third-generation New Yorker, of half Russian Jewish and half Austrian Jewish descent. 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 French father, Marc Chalamet, is an editor for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and former New York correspondent for Le Parisien. Marc is from Nîmes and is of a Protestant Christian background. Timothée’s paternal grandmother, who had moved to France, was originally Canadian. On his mother’s side, he is a nephew of husband-and-wife filmmakers and producers Rodman Flender and Amy Lippman.
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