Timothée Chalamet Net Worth

Timothée Chalamet's Quotes

• [on working with Greta Gerwig] I would work with Greta on anything. I'm just totally in awe of her. I like working with filmmakers who are ten times smarter than me. Also I get to be the square to the circle of Saoirse Ronan's affections again.
• I think the most precious thing I get from my parents - and I try and give it back to them as much as I can - is their love and support. I hope that doesn't sound cheesy, but it's true. In your late teens, early 20s, you suddenly realize that your parents are human. That doesn't mean I don't get really great advice from them, because I do. But you reach a certain age and you take control of your own life.
• [on method acting] I try to be super careful. The danger is you can end up focusing more on what's going on off-camera than on-camera. You don't want to be entertaining for the sake of being entertaining. The work should be the work. If it resonates, it's going to resonate, and then people are naturally curious about how you got to that destination. It can't be about how you're getting to it.
• I hear about celebrities who have stylists, and that blows my mind. It's certainly not why I act, but I can wear cool clothes from some of the nicest designers in the world. So why am I going to pay someone to figure out what I should be wearing? That's the fun part.
• I'm a big hypocrite in that I believe that the most important part of any audition is the second you leave the room. If you can leave and not beat yourself up, it's going to help you next time. I never actually auditioned for Call Me by Your Name (2017), which kind of blows my mind. I did a reading in New York.

Interesting Facts about Timothée Chalamet

1. 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.
2. His father was raised in Lille, France, and his mother is from New York. 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.
3. Timothée's maternal uncle is director Rodman Flender. Timothée's maternal grandfather was writer and screenwriter Harold Flender.
4. Auditioned for the role of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016). He lost out to Tom Holland.
5. 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".
6. 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.
7. Plays the piano and guitar, the former of which he played for the role of Elio in Call Me by Your Name (2017).
8. 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).
9. Brother of actress Pauline Chalamet and nephew of writer, producer, and director Amy Lippman.
10. In 2017, became the youngest winner of the NYFCC's Best Actor prize, for Call Me by Your Name (2017).
11. 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.
12. 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).
13. 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).
14. As of 2020, he has been in 3 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture: Call Me by Your Name (2017), Lady Bird (2017), and Little Women (2019).
15. Auditioned for the role of Patrick in Manchester by the Sea (2016). He lost out to Lucas Hedges.
16. Also uses a French passport.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.