Timothée Chalamet

Some Lesser Known Facts About Timothée Chalamet

• Timothée Chalamet is an American actor known for his sensitive portrayals of complex characters in independent films and his blockbuster humour in ensemble comedies.

• Timothée was born in New York City and grew up in the federally subsidized artist’s building Manhattan Plaza in Hell’s Kitchen under the Mitchell–Lama program.

• Timothée Chalamet’s grandparents were originally Canadian. Earlier they lived in Brantford, Ontario, however, later they moved to France.

• Chalamet is bilingual in English and French because his father is French and his mother is English. In an interview, once he mentioned that his fluency in French is not as good.

• He holds dual citizenship of the United States and France.

• Timothée Chalamet began his acting career as a child by doing commercials. In an interview, he once revealed that he bagged commercials because many children in New York at that time were often approached for such opportunities.

• In an interview, he once mentioned that Heath Ledger’s performance as Joker in The Dark Knight (2008) inspired him to pursue acting professionally, and he enrolled himself at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts to learn acting.

• His admission to H. LaGuardia High School was initially denied due to his poor high school academic results. However, one of his drama teachers was so impressed by his audition that he insisted school authorities on Timothée Chalamet’s acceptance into the school.

• During his high school in LaGuardia, Timothée Chalamet dated Madonna‘s daughter Lourdes Leon. She was also his classmate.

• Timothée Chalamet dropped out of New York University to focus on his acting career and avoid student debt.

• He also learnt pop music and singing at H. LaGuardia High School.

• Before appearing in a lead role in the TV serial Homeland (2012), he did many short roles in TV serials and commercials from 2008 to 2012.

• Timothée Chalamet missed half of his academic year of senior school while shooting for the TV series Homeland (2012).

• In an interview, he once mentioned that he and American actor Ansel Elgort attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts at the same time. Ansel Elgort was also his co-star in his debut film Men, Women & Children (2014). The role of Timothée Chalamet in this film was very short.

• In 2016, Timothée Chalamet starred as Jim Quinn in the autobiographical play Prodigal Son at Manhattan Theatre Club. His performance in the play was praised a lot. He also won a nomination and an award for the play.

• In an interview, he once revealed that he auditioned for the role of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016). However, he lost that role to Tom Holland.

• Call Me by Your Name (2017) was his breakthrough film. It made him win many awards in a row. He was also the youngest winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award in the Best Actor category.

• From 2017 to 2024 his films such as Call Me by Your Name (2017), Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019), Dune: Part One (2021), Don’t Look Up (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024), and A Complete Unknown (2024) have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

• He was the first person born in the 1990s to be nominated for the Academy Award and Oscar Award for his films.

• Timothée was considered among the most talented actors of his generation by several media publications. In 2018 he appeared in Forbes‘s 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list.

• In 2019, Timothée Chalamet was labelled the most influential man in fashion by Vogue magazine.

• In 2020, Men’s Magazine GQ ranked him as the best-dressed man in the world, and in 2023 magazine’s reader voted him the Most Stylish Man of The Year.

  

• His sharp jawline, his hair, and androgynous looks were highlighted as his trademarks and he was described as a “Sex Symbol” and “Fashion Icon” by several media houses.

• In 2021, Timothée Chalamet was one of the co-chairs at the Met Gala event.

  

• In 2022, he appeared on the cover page of the October 2022 print edition of British Vogue magazine. He was the first solo male to do so in the magazine’s history.

  

• In 2023, Timothée Chalamet became the face of Chanel’s men’s perfume Bleu de Chanel. He received $ 35 million (approx) for this campaign.

  

• In 2024, Chalamet was labelled as a “noodle boy”, by the American daily newspaper “The New York Times” for his sinewy appearance, which also served as an alternative image of white masculinity” in American pop culture.

• Chalamet is an avid sports lover. At a younger age, he wanted to be a professional soccer player. He is a childhood friend of professional soccer player, Alex Muyl. Chalamet is a lifelong supporter of the French soccer team Saint-Étienne.

• Timothée Chalamet had the hobby of customising gaming controllers, and when he was 15 years old, he created a YouTube account named “ModdedController360,” in which he showed his audience Xbox 360 gaming controllers customised by himself.

• Timothée also does social work. In 2021, he collaborated with French designer Haider Ackermann to create a hoodie. All profits from this collaboration were donated to the French organization Afghanistan Libre, which focused on preserving women’s rights in Afghanistan.

• In 2025, Timothée Chalamet collaborated with the Los Angeles clothing brand Nahmias to design a hoodie inspired by his role in the film A Complete Unknown (2024).

• Timothée loves playing basketball, and LeBron James is his favourite basketball player.

• Timothée Chalamet enjoyed hip-hop music and considered American Rapper “Kid Cudi” to be his biggest career inspiration for music.

• He is very close to his family and loves spending time with them. In an interview, he once mentioned that during his school vacations, he spent time with his grandparents in France.

  

• In an interview, he once mentioned that he loved to do theatre and plays.

• Timothée Chalamet also loves to do photgraphy.

• He occasionally drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes.