TIMOTHÉE
CHALAMET

Timothée Chalamet’s roles often begin at a threshold: a young person discovers a feeling, inherits a responsibility or attempts to become an artist. The uncertainty before a decision is as revealing as the decision itself. Born in New York City on December 27, 1995, he graduated from Fiorello LaGuardia High School for the performing arts in 2013. His later work moves between intimate dramas, large-scale science fiction and stories shaped by music.

Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017) casts him as Elio during a summer in Italy. A visiting scholar, Oliver, enters his family’s world, and the film follows the changes in their relationship. Chalamet gives Elio’s confidence and hesitation space to coexist, allowing a glance or an unfinished sentence to carry emotional weight. The performance earned him a leading-actor Oscar nomination at the 2018 ceremony.

His collaborations with Greta Gerwig include Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), in which he plays Laurie. The latter places a familiar literary character within a close ensemble, responding to the ambitions and choices of the March sisters. Watching the relationships change over time gives his performance a different task from a solitary coming-of-age story: the character’s hopes are shaped by people whose own futures matter just as much.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024) put him at the centre of a much larger conflict as Paul Atreides. The young heir’s journey through Arrakis is surrounded by questions of power, loyalty and expectation. Chalamet’s performance must hold the personal consequences of those questions alongside the scale of the production. In the second film, Paul’s relationship with Chani and the Fremen gives his changing position a human context.

Music takes a more direct role in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown (2024), where Chalamet plays and sings as Bob Dylan. The film follows an early period in the songwriter’s rise, asking its lead to communicate through performance as well as conversation. He received another leading-actor Oscar nomination in 2025. Together, these roles show a career interested in how a public identity forms around someone who is still finding a voice.