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50 free Timothée Chalamet trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Timothée Chalamet grew up in a subsidized artists' building in Hell's Kitchen, spent summers in a French village near Lyon, and decided to act after watching Heath Ledger's Joker. He got into LaGuardia on the strength of one audition, dated Madonna's daughter, ran a YouTube channel about modded Xbox controllers, and dropped out of two universities to avoid student debt. This quiz covers the whole climb: the Law & Order corpse, Finn Walden on Homeland, Interstellar, the Lucille Lortel Award for Prodigal Son, Elio and the youngest Best Actor nomination since 1939, Laurie and Kyle for Greta Gerwig, Henry V, Paul Atreides, the seven Wonka songs and the $9 million fee, 40 Bob Dylan songs and the call-sheet alias, Marty Supreme, the Met Gala, the Chanel campaign and the Washington Square Park look-alike contest. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a movie-night quiz.
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Q 01Timothée Chalamet grew up in which New York City neighborhood?
Hell's Kitchen
His family rented in Manhattan Plaza, a subsidized building reserved for artists.
Q 02Chalamet's father Marc was a New York correspondent for which French newspaper?
Le Parisien
He is from Nîmes and also worked as an editor for UNICEF.
Q 03Chalamet's mother Nicole Flender was formerly what?
A Broadway dancer
She studied French at Yale and now works in real estate.
Q 04Chalamet spent childhood summers in a French village two hours from which city?
Lyon
He holds dual US and French citizenship through his father.
Q 05Which performance inspired Chalamet to pursue acting?
Heath Ledger as the Joker
He then applied to LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Q 06Which fellow LaGuardia student did Chalamet date in high school?
Lourdes Leon
Madonna's daughter was a classmate; they dated for a year.
Q 07Chalamet played the Emcee in which musical at LaGuardia High School?
Cabaret
Paul King later cast him as Wonka after watching those school performances on YouTube.
Q 08Chalamet spent a year at Columbia University majoring in what?
Cultural anthropology
He transferred to NYU's Gallatin School and later dropped out to avoid student debt.
Q 09Chalamet's 2009 TV debut on Law & Order had him playing what?
A murder victim
He had earlier appeared in commercials and two horror shorts, Sweet Tooth and Clown.
Q 10In Homeland, Chalamet played Finn Walden, the son of which official?
The Vice President
The cast shared a SAG Award nomination for Best Ensemble.
Q 11Chalamet made his feature film debut in which 2014 Jason Reitman film?
Men, Women & Children
He was still a Columbia student at the time.
Q 12In Interstellar, Chalamet played the son of which actor's character?
Matthew McConaughey
He later called it his favourite film he had been in, despite it not boosting his career as he hoped.
Q 13In Love the Coopers (2015), Chalamet's grandparents were played by John Goodman and whom?
Diane Keaton
The Christmas comedy received negative reviews.
Q 21Chalamet donated his salary from which Woody Allen film to charity?
A Rainy Day in New York
He gave the money to Time's Up, the LGBT Center of New York and RAINN and did not promote the film.
Q 22Chalamet played which English monarch in the Netflix film The King?
Henry V
David Michôd's film draws on Shakespeare's Henriad.
Q 23Chalamet played which character in Gerwig's Little Women?
Laurie
It was his second collaboration with both Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan.
Q 24Wes Anderson wrote Chalamet's student-revolutionary role in which film just for him?
Q 14Chalamet won a Lucille Lortel Award for the play Prodigal Son, written by whom?
John Patrick Shanley
He played a younger version of the playwright at a New Hampshire prep school in 1963.
Q 15Call Me by Your Name is based on a novel by which author?
André Aciman
Chalamet learned Italian, piano and guitar to play Elio Perlman.
Q 16Call Me by Your Name premiered at which festival in 2017?
Sundance
Critics particularly singled out Chalamet's performance.
Q 17Chalamet became the youngest Best Actor Oscar nominee since which child star in 1939?
Mickey Rooney
He was the third-youngest nominee in the category's history.
Q 18Chalamet played Kyle, a rich hipster in a band, in which Greta Gerwig film?
Lady Bird
It was Gerwig's solo directorial debut, with Saoirse Ronan in the title role.
Q 19Which actor played Chalamet's father in Beautiful Boy?
Steve Carell
The film is based on memoirs by both David and Nic Sheff.
Q 20What is the title of Nic Sheff's memoir that helped inspire Beautiful Boy?
Tweak
Chalamet earned Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA nominations for the role.
The French Dispatch
The film premiered at Cannes in 2021.
Q 25Who directed Dune, in which Chalamet plays Paul Atreides?
Denis Villeneuve
Villeneuve said Chalamet was his only choice for the part.
Q 26Dune (2021) premiered at which film festival?
Venice
Chalamet later admitted he felt 'thrown by the futurism' after his naturalistic earlier films.
Q 27What kind of character did Chalamet play in Don't Look Up?
A skater punk
The ensemble cast earned a SAG Award nomination.
Q 28Chalamet and Taylor Russell play cannibal drifters in which 2022 film?
Bones and All
It was his first production venture and reunited him with Luca Guadagnino.
Q 29How much was Chalamet paid to star in Wonka?
$9 million
Director Paul King cast him without an audition.
Q 30How many songs did Chalamet sing on the Wonka soundtrack?
Seven
He later called Wonka the riskiest thing he had made, and 'kinda punk rock'.