Timothée Chalamet Trivia
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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
Hell's Kitchen is home to Manhattan Plaza, the subsidized complex where his family rented and where Larry David once lived next door to Kenny Kramer, the model for Seinfeld's Kramer.
Q 02Chalamet's father Marc, a French journalist, also worked as an editor for which United Nations agency?
UNICEF
UNICEF had Marc Chalamet overseeing its French publications, and because he is French his son holds French citizenship as well as American.
Q 03Chalamet's mother Nicole Flender was formerly what?
A Broadway dancer
A Broadway dancer, as her own mother had been, Nicole Flender later taught dance in New York schools and then retrained to sell Manhattan apartments.
Q 04Chalamet spent childhood summers in a French village two hours from which city?
Lyon
Lyon is about two hours from Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, his grandparents' village, whose people hid thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis during World War II.
Q 05Which performance inspired Chalamet to pursue acting?
Heath Ledger as the Joker
Heath Ledger as the Joker hit him at 12, when he talked his mother and grandmother into a Times Square screening of The Dark Knight and, he said, left the theatre a changed man.
Q 06Which fellow LaGuardia student did Chalamet date in high school?
Lourdes Leon
Lourdes Leon, Madonna's eldest daughter, dated him for almost a year at LaGuardia and years later told an interviewer that he had been her first boyfriend.
Q 07Chalamet played the Emcee in which musical at LaGuardia High School?
Cabaret
Cabaret nearly happened without him: LaGuardia first turned him down, and he got in only because a drama teacher who had scored his audition higher than any other protested to the principal.
Q 08Chalamet studied cultural anthropology for a year at which Ivy League university before transferring to NYU?
Columbia
Columbia never clicked for him: he said he floundered there after filming Interstellar, moved to NYU to design his own major, and then left college without a degree to act.
Q 09Chalamet's 2009 TV debut on Law & Order had him playing what?
A murder victim
A murder victim was all the part asked of him: his character, Eric Foley, is found dead with the family housekeeper as the episode opens, and the detectives spend the hour hunting the killer.
Q 10In Homeland, Chalamet played Finn Walden, the son of which official?
The Vice President
The Vice President's son Finn takes Dana Brody on a date, hits a pedestrian while trying to shake off their Secret Service escort, and insists that they flee the scene.
Q 11Chalamet made his feature film debut in which 2014 Jason Reitman film?
Men, Women & Children
Men, Women & Children put him in an ensemble with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner, but the drama flopped, taking in only about $2 million worldwide.
Q 12In Interstellar, Chalamet played the son of which actor's character?
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey's pilot leaves his teenage son Tom behind on Earth; Chalamet expected the part to be his breakout and said he wept at the film, partly because he was in it far less than he had thought.
Q 13Which 2015 Christmas comedy cast Chalamet as the grandson of Diane Keaton and John Goodman?
Love the Coopers
Q 21Chalamet donated his salary from which Woody Allen film to charity?
A Rainy Day in New York
A Rainy Day in New York earned him nothing by choice: he gave his whole fee to Time's Up, RAINN and New York's LGBT Center, and Amazon then shelved the film, which reached US cinemas only in 2020.
Q 22Chalamet played which English monarch in the Netflix film The King?
Henry V
Henry V here owes as much to the screenwriters as to Shakespeare: the film has Falstaff plan the victory at Agincourt and die in the battle, while in the plays the new king disowns him and his death is merely reported.
Q 23Chalamet played which character in Gerwig's Little Women?
Laurie
Love the Coopers gathers four generations for Christmas Eve while his grandparents, played by Diane Keaton and John Goodman, hide that they are separating after four decades of marriage.
Q 14Chalamet won a Lucille Lortel Award for the play Prodigal Son, written by whom?
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley based the play on his own stormy teens at a New Hampshire prep school, then directed it himself and had Paul Simon write its music.
Q 15Call Me by Your Name is based on a novel by which author?
André Aciman
André Aciman also turns up on screen: invited to watch the shoot, he was given a cameo as Mounir, one half of the couple who come to dinner with Elio's parents.
Q 16Who played Oliver, the American scholar Chalamet's Elio falls for, in Call Me by Your Name?
Armie Hammer
Armie Hammer joined him at Sundance in January 2017, where the first screening drew a standing ovation, and said his young co-star deserved every accolade he was going to get.
Q 17Chalamet became the youngest Best Actor Oscar nominee since which child star in 1939?
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney was 19 when Babes in Arms made him a nominee; Chalamet, at 22, came closer to that mark than anyone since, yet lost the Oscar to Gary Oldman, a man 37 years his senior.
Q 18Chalamet played Kyle, a rich hipster in a band, in which Greta Gerwig film?
Lady Bird
Lady Bird reached him through the theatre: Scott Rudin, who produced both the film and his Off-Broadway play, sent him to meet Gerwig, and he shot the part in just two weeks.
Q 19Which actor played Chalamet's father in Beautiful Boy?
Steve Carell
Steve Carell plays the journalist David Sheff, and to play his son Nic in the grip of addiction Chalamet shed 20 pounds from an already slim frame.
Q 20Which memoir by Nic Sheff about his methamphetamine addiction helped inspire Beautiful Boy?
Tweak
Tweak tells the same relapses from the son's side that his father's book tells from a parent's, and after getting sober Nic Sheff became a TV writer on shows including 13 Reasons Why.
Laurie, the rich boy next door, proposes to Jo, is turned down and ends up marrying her youngest sister Amy; the part was Chalamet's second for Gerwig, again opposite Saoirse Ronan.
Q 24Wes Anderson wrote Chalamet's student-revolutionary role in which film just for him?
The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch casts him as Zeffirelli, a student rebel whose manifesto the reporter covering him quietly rewrites; Anderson said he never thought of anyone else, partly because Chalamet speaks French.
Q 25Who directed Dune, in which Chalamet plays Paul Atreides?
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve's first Dune unsettled its star: Chalamet later said he felt 'thrown by the futurism' and intimidated by so huge a film after a run of small, naturalistic dramas.
Q 26Which Little Women co-star joined Chalamet again in Dune: Part Two as Princess Irulan?
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh, Oscar-nominated as Amy March in Little Women, plays the Emperor's daughter, whom Paul demands to marry so that he can take the throne, to Chani's dismay.
Q 27What kind of character did Chalamet play in Don't Look Up?
A skater punk
A skater punk and shoplifter named Yule, he proves to be a sincere Christian, and it is his prayer the heroes join hands for at their last supper as the comet arrives.
Q 28Chalamet and Taylor Russell play cannibal drifters in which 2022 film?
Bones and All
Bones and All reached him as a script while he was in Rome for Dune reshoots; he became a producer for the first time, and he and Luca Guadagnino deferred their fees to fund it without a studio.
Q 29Which British actor plays Lofty, the Oompa-Loompa who keeps stealing chocolate from Chalamet's Wonka?
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant, shrunk by motion capture into an orange, green-haired Oompa-Loompa, raids Wonka's chocolate to recover the value of cocoa beans taken from Loompaland on his watch.
Q 30Chalamet's Wonka sings 'Pure Imagination', first sung by whom?
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder introduced Pure Imagination in the 1971 film; Chalamet sings it on the new film's soundtrack and admitted he felt out of his league recording at Abbey Road.