- 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".
- Speaks French almost fluently (he puts himself at 97% fluent, because he mistakes certain gendered nouns) and learned how to speak Italian while shooting Call Me by Your Name (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.
- Auditioned for the role of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016). He lost out to Tom Holland.
- The King (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.
- 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.
- In 2017, became the youngest winner of the NYFCC's Best Actor prize, for Call Me by Your Name (2017).
- 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.
- Plays the piano and guitar, the former of which he played for the role of Elio in Call Me by Your Name (2017).
- 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 The Dark Knight (2008). He also credits Kid Cudi with the reason he is an actor.
- 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.
- Has appeared in five films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Call Me by Your Name (2017), Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019), Dune: Part One (2021) and Don't Look Up (2021).
- 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).
- In high school, he dated Madonna's daughter Lola (his classmate).
- As of 2024, he has been nominated for 1 Oscar, 3 Golden Globes, 3 BAFTAs, and 4 SAGs.
- Was still only 17 when he started college at Columbia University. (He now attends New York University).
- 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.
- 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.
- Auditioned for the role of Patrick in Manchester by the Sea (2016). He lost out to Lucas Hedges.
- 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 Austrian 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.
- By age 26, he has appeared in five films that have been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
- Also uses a French passport.
- 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.
- 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.
- He is a huge fan of Paul Thomas Anderson, whom he has described as one of his heroes, and has named Punch-Drunk Love (2002) as one of his favorite films.
- His eyes are actually blue with a large hazel iris, giving them a faux "green" appearance.
- Prefers doing theatre.
- Brother of actress Pauline Chalamet and nephew of writer, producer, and director Amy Lippman.
- His maternal grandfather Harold Flender wrote for Sid Caesar in the 1950s, along with Woody Allen. When Allen later cast Timothée in his film A Rainy Day in New York (2019), he was initially unaware of the family relation.
- 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 is the first and thus far only person born in the 1990s to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Call Me by Your Name (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 Whale Rider (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 (2016), respectively).
- Among movies he auditioned for but never got a response or call back include The Neon Demon (2016), White Boy Rick (2018), The Theory of Everything (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), and Manchester by the Sea (2016).
- He was originally going to be rejected from LaGuardia, but his sophomore drama teacher insisted upon his enrollment and gave him the highest score.
- 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.
- 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.
- His parents met while his dad was on a business trip to New York.
- While his became the number one movie internationally (Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in 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).
- Of his time at Columbia, he said he felt like another product on the factory line.
- 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 & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Johnny Depp for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
- 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), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Little Women (2019), Don't Look Up (2021) and Dune: Part One (2021).
- Considers Kiernan Shipka to be his little sister.
- While living in the Bronx, he lived two streets away from Yankee Stadium.
- 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), Little Women (2019) and The French Dispatch (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.
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