Meet Timothée Chalamet’s sister Pauline: a ballerina-turned-actress who stars in HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fanatic
- Pauline once appeared in a small role opposite SNL’s Pete Davidson in The King of Staten Island in 2020 and now stars in a Mindy Kaling-produced teen comedy
- The actress loves Paris, initially wanted to become a ballerina – even attending the School of American Ballet – and shares her fave books on Instagram
It’s not every day that a Hollywood star’s sibling follows in their footsteps. But that’s exactly what Pauline Chalamet, 29, did as she currently stars in Mindy Kaling’s teen comedy show The Sex Lives of College Girls, which premiered on HBO Max on November 18.
Pauline actually started acting at the age of seven in the soap opera One Life to Live and made her debut in a small role opposite Pete Davidson in The King of Staten Island in 2020. But the role of Kimberly in The Sex Lives of College Girls is her first major acting job.
She comes from an accomplished family
Her American mum, Nicole Flender, is a former Broadway dancer and a language teacher who graduated from Yale University. Meanwhile, her French dad Marc Chalamet is an editor for Unicef and the former New York correspondent for Le Parisien. If that’s not enough, her uncle is the director Rodman Flender and her aunt is writer and producer Amy Lippman.
Raised in Manhattan Plaza, a subsidised housing complex for artists, Pauline said that the love for art “was in my family, and it was also really in the building in which I grew up,” according to Vanity Fair.
She is a Parisian at heart
Pauline wanted to become a ballerina at first and attended the School of American Ballet. She enrolled in the prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and earned her bachelor’s – she was a double major – from Bard College.
She then moved to Paris to study at the Studio Théâtre d’Asnières and even dabbled in directing a few short films. She lived in Paris for several years and still has her flat in the French city today.