All Timothée Chalamet Fans Need To See Him In These Movies

A sword-wielding, future-seeing Chalamet fulfills his destiny as a soon-to-be powerful prophet in the first Dune film. He plays Paul Atreides, son of Oscar Isaac’s Leto, duke and steward of Arrakis. When rival nations stage a coup to claim a sandy desert planet with a coveted spice worth warring for, Paul and his mom, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), must find their way to safety — and to the girl of his literal dreams, Chani (Zendaya). Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, and Jason Momoa also join Dennis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel.

In Greta Gerwig’s reimagining of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, Chalamet plays Laurie, a gentlemanly (for the most part) neighbor who becomes smitten with Saoirse Ronan’s Jo March... only to later marry her sister Amy (Florence Pugh). Emma Watson, Laura Dern, and Meryl Streep also star in the critically-acclaimed period drama. Come for Timmy in a top hat, stay for him professing his love for Jo in the middle of a field and the look of jealousy that washes over his face when he realizes he likes Amy.

For a glimpse of a young Chalamet, consider the 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar, directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan. In it, Chalamet plays a young Tom, son of NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), who heads to space to try and save the world with Anne Hathaway. Unfortunately for young Tom, he seemed to be more of an afterthought through Cooper’s lifelong intergalactic gallop than his sister Murphy (Mackenzie Foy and Jessica Chastain).

The actor even joked about it years later with TIME, saying, “I remember seeing it and weeping. Sixty percent because I was so moved by it, and 40 percent because I’d thought I was in the movie so much more than I am.”

Perhaps Chalamet’s most iconic role to date is as Elio Perlman in the critically-acclaimed coming-of-age film Call Me by Your Name. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and based on the novel by André Aciman, Timmy plays the young Italian — yes, he speaks Italian in this — who falls in love with Oliver (Armie Hammer), an American exchange student temporarily staying with his family in the picturesque Italian countryside. Notable scenes are sprinkled throughout the movie, particularly Chalamet’s beautiful breakdown in front of a fire and the peach moment that sparked endless memes.

Even the Academy Award-nominating body approved of Chalamet’s performance, giving him a Best Actor nod at 22, making him the third-youngest actor ever to be nominated in the category. Of his “awesome” movie, the actor told W, “I probably won’t say this about everything I’m in in my career, but this is really a movie I’m very proud of.”

As King Henry V or Hal, Chalamet bears the new burden of leading a kingdom on the brink of war — all while sporting a bowl cut. His father just passed away, and the young monarch can’t trust anyone, especially not the French dauphin Louis, played by Robert Pattinson with a bonkers accent. Directed by David Michôd, the war film is also where Chalamet met his ex-girlfriend Lily-Rose Depp.

Speaking to Deadline about his casting decision, Michôd said, “I knew that if I was casting a 22-year-old New Yorker to play Henry V, he was going to have to do a lot of work. I had every faith that he would do it. I haven’t had that feeling before. I was just so sure that someone so young would just do it and find it and make it great."

Before Little Women, Chalamet starred opposite Ronan in Gerwig’s Lady Bird, an emotional portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship that raked in five Oscar nominations. The eccentric Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Ronan) doesn’t quite fit in at her Catholic high school, so she tries to fit in elsewhere — Chalamet’s gang of misfits. He plays the “worldly” (read: douchebag) Kyle Scheible, a bass drummer in the indie band L’Enfance Nue who Lady Bird desperately tries to impress, and the two develop a romance based on deceit (ugh, Kyle). Simply put, Chalamet in this role is “hella tight.”

Before Chalamet was acting in big-budget films, he first donned the persona of rapper Lil Timmy Tim. A true gift from the YouTube archives, a young — sorry, lil — Chalamet performs a rap medley during his time at prestigious Manhattan arts school Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. He asks the audience to jump several times before going on a semi-autobiographical verse: “Oui, je suis from France.” There’s even a mini striptease before he cosplays as Nicki Minaj and delivers “Roman’s Revenge” in a bubblegum pink wig. Let him impress you with his big dance moves and confidence, a complete persona shift from his typical demure demeanor.

“I just had it,” he told Graham Norton on The Graham Norton Show about Lil Timmy Tim before sharing he once rapped about — checks notes — statistics as part of his exam. He got a D for it.

Chalamet brought the true story of David and Nic Sheff, father-and-son memoirists, to life alongside Steve Carrell in Beautiful Boy. In the emotional film, based on Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Chalamet gives a harrowing performance as Nic, someone dealing with substance abuse issues. His scenes with Carell were such powerful glimpses into addiction that Timmy was nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards, among others, for his portrayal.

Timmy’s debut as an SNL host in December 2020 was a huge success, but his most memorable run on the show was when he harkened back to his rap roots and spit rhymes (sort of) with Davidson for the “Rap Roundtable” skit. With pink hair and multi-colored nails, they performed the obnoxious “Yeet! Remix” with the sparsest of lyrics — mostly skrrrts and yeets.