Pauline Hope Chalamet[1] (born January 25, 1992)[2] is a French-American[3] actress, writer and director. She made her feature film debut in Judd Apatow's comedy The King of Staten Island. Chalamet stars in the HBO Max original comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls as Kimberly.[4]
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Born | Pauline Hope Chalamet (1992-01-25) January 25, 1992 (age 30) New York City, U.S. |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Bard College |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1999–present |
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Chalamet was born in New York City, the first child of Nicole Flender and Marc Chalamet, and grew up in the federally subsidized artists' building Manhattan Plaza, in Hell's Kitchen.[5] Her younger brother is actor Timothée Chalamet. Her mother, Nicole Flender, is a third-generation New Yorker, of half Russian Jewish and half Austrian Jewish descent.[6] She is a real estate broker at The Corcoran Group,[7] and a former Broadway dancer; Flender earned her bachelor's degree in French from Yale University, and has been a language and dance teacher.[8][9] Her French father, Marc Chalamet, is an editor for the UNICEF and former New York correspondent for Le Parisien.[10][11] Marc Chalamet is from Nîmes and is of a Protestant Christian background.[9] Chalamet's paternal grandmother, who moved to France, was Canadian.[12]
At age 10, Chalamet danced in a Broadway production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[13] She attended the School of American Ballet from 2001 to 2010.[3] She graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in 2010, and graduated in 2014 from Bard College, where she double majored in theater and political studies.[14][15] While studying, Chalamet worked at the school library and helped out at a farm to pay off her student loans.[16] After college, she decided to move to Paris without her family's knowledge. “I told my family after I had signed a lease", she has said.[17] There she pursued an acting apprenticeship at the Studio Théâtre d'Asnières.[18]
Chalamet started her career with small roles in television shows such as One Life to Live and Royal Pains. Since 2016 she has worked in short films like Je Suis Mes Actes and Between Fear and Laughter, which she wrote and directed. In 2017, she wrote Agnes et Milane, directed by Tristan Tilloloy, appeared in Margot, and starred in Gravats by Hong Kai Lai. She also starred in the Canadian television pilot La Ville. In 2018, she wrote the short The Group Chat and appeared in En Ville. In 2019, Chalamet wrote another short, Entre Deux Mondes, directed by Myriam Doumenq, and starred as Marion in Comme des Grands, directed by Ania Gauer and Julien Gauthier, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the IndieXFilmFest section of the Los Angeles International Film Festival.[19] The next year she starred in another three short films: Je Suis la Nouvelle Adjani by Khady N'Diaye, Seasick by Lindsey Ryan, and Canines by Abel Danan, which was selected for the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer.[20]
In 2019, Chalamet was cast as Joanne in the Judd Apatow comedy The King of Staten Island, which premiered in 2020. In 2020, she appeared as Sveta in two episodes of the French webseries Les Engagés. On October 14, 2020, Variety reported that Chalamet was set to star as Kimberly, "the valedictorian of a working-class public high school in a humble Arizona suburb", in Mindy Kaling's comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls for HBO Max.[4] She will next appear in Iris Brey's Split, a French television series, alongside Alma Jodorowsky and Jehnny Beth.[21][22][23][24]
As of 2021, Chalamet lives in Paris.[25] She is an avid reader and has a book club with her friends. On average she reads one book a week, with her favourite being Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.[26][27]
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Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2020 | The King of Staten Island | Joanne | Judd Apatow | |
2021 | Adulting | Marion |
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2021 | Black and White and Red All Over ![]() |
- | Oliver Dungey | |
2021 | What Doesn't Float ![]() |
Alex | Luca Balser | |
2021 | After Dark ![]() |
Ronnie | Minka Bleakley | Short film |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1999 | One Life to Live | Emma Doyle | Episode: "#1.7809" |
2009 | Royal Pains | Lead Ballerina | Episode: "There Will Be Food" |
2021 | Les Engagés | Sveta | 2 episodes |
2021–present | The Sex Lives of College Girls | Kimberly | Main role |
TBA | Split | Paola | Post-production |
Award | Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Reference |
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Independent Shorts Awards | 2020 | Adulting | Best Acting Duo (shared with Dylan Raffin) | Won | [28] |
Milan Gold Awards | 2021 | Best Actress | Won | [29] | |
Chicago Indie Film Awards | 2021 | Best Actress | Won | [30] | |
New York Indie Shorts Awards | 2021 | Seasick | Best Actress | Won | [31] |
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