Timothée Chalamet is an American actor. He was born in New York City on December 27, 1995, and raised in the federally subsidised artists’ building Manhattan Plaza in Hell’s Kitchen.

Nicole Flender, his mother, is a third-generation New Yorker who is half Russian Jewish and half Austrian Jewish. She is a real estate broker at The Corcoran Group and a former Broadway dancer.

Nicole Flender graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in French and has taught language and dance.

Marc Chalamet, his French father, is an editor for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and a former Le Parisien correspondent in New York. Marc is from Nîmes and comes from a Protestant Christian family.

Marc began his journalism career with the Associated Press, first in Paris and then in New York. According to his LinkedIn, he founded News of America, a news agency that specialised in covering the United States for the French press.

Timothée’s paternal grandmother was originally from Canada and had moved to France. On his mother’s side, he is the nephew of Rodman Flender and Amy Lippman, husband and wife filmmakers and producers.