Timothée Chalamet

His career has only just begun, but the wind is blowing in his favor, since at barely 22 years old he can play more youthful roles, but always with problematic and complex traits, which attract the attention of the most restless directors. Well, her face is the ideal face to convey sweetness, charm and fragility.

Although born in New York in 1995, his first and last name reveal his French origin. Indeed, his father, a Unicef ​​editor, comes from France, while his mother, a dancer and real estate expert, is Jewish of Russian origin. Curiously, the artistic and more specifically cinematographic bug is very present in his family: his grandfather, Harold Flender, is a screenwriter, his uncle, Rodman Flender , a director, and he shares an acting profession with his sister Pauline.

With such a panorama, it is not surprising that his studies and first professional steps have gone from the beginning in this direction. So he walked through the classrooms of the LaGuardia Institute of Music and Performing Arts, where he met Ansel Elgort . She also for a time studied at Columbia University, following the advice of Claire Danes . He also speaks French and Italian, and a music lover, he masters the piano and the guitar. The filming of some commercial spots, and the passage through the theater scene, familiarized him with the cameras and the composition of characters other than himself. Television, an obligatory learning school, required him in the Law and Order and Homeland series .

From the beginning of his film career, he has rubbed shoulders with interesting filmmakers. He made his feature film debut in Jason Reitman ‘s Men, Women & Children (2014), and was the teenage son of Matthew McConaughey in Christopher Nolan ‘s space odyssey Interstellar that same year.

Despite the fact that they were Hollywood productions, Chalamet drew attention among indie filmmakers, and was required for films such as Retales de una vida (Pamela Romanowsky, 2015), where he was the writer Stephen Elliott as a young man, the adult character was played by James Franco . In 2016 he was a high school teenager in the road movie Miss Stevens .

Timothée’s hatching year is undoubtedly 2017, as he is raffled off in prestigious indie titles. Interestingly in both Call Me By Your Name ( Luca Guadagnino ) and Lady Bird ( Greta Gerwig ), he plays a young bisexual. In the first case, he falls in love with a doctoral student, Armie Hammer , who is staying in her family home, her father supervises his thesis. In the other, he is Saoirse Ronan ‘s first love interest , until she discovers her unexpected gay leaning. In addition, he has shot the western Hostiles .

It is clear that this tall actor, over six feet tall, is not afraid of complex and problematic characters, since his new projects are Beautiful Boy (2018), where he is someone with a drug addiction, while Woody Allen has chosen him for A Rainy Day in New York (2018).