All About Timothée Chalamet's Sister, 'Sex Lives of College Girls' Star Pauline Chalamet

Mar. 15, 2025

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Timothée Chalametisn’t the only famous Chalamet in Hollywood — theDuneactor has an older sister,Pauline Chalamet, who also acts.

The born and raised New Yorker stars inMindy Kaling’s hit Max series,The Sex Lives of College Girls.

While she and her brother are both accomplished actors, success has not affected their relationship. “It has nothing to do with either of us. He didn’t choose that. I didn’t choose him as a brother; he didn’t choose me as a sister,” PaulinetoldVanity Fairin 2021. “So it feels normal, but because it doesn’t impact our lives at all. It doesn’t impact our relationship.”

The famous siblings are supportive of each other’s careers. Pauline previously toldVanity Fairthat she is “in awe of” her brother’s work and that Timothée “has come to almost every screening of a short film I’ve written or directed or acted in.”

In addition to being a talented actress, Pauline is also a mom. Shewelcomed her first childin September 2024 with film producer Rhys Raiskin, according toThe Mirror.

So, who is Pauline Chalamet? Here is everything to know about Timothée Chalamet’s sister.

She is older than Timothée

Timothee Chalamet and Pauline Chalamet attend The 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards in 2018.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Timothée is younger than his sister. Pauline was born inJanuary 1992, while her brother was born in December 1995.

During an interview to promoteLittle Women, Timothéespoke about his sisterbeing his best friend and having an “incredible relationship” with her now. However, he also shared that growing up, she’d put his shoes in places he couldn’t reach.

She grew up in an artist colony

Pauline Chalamet at La Samaritaine in Paris, France in 2023.Christian Vierig/Getty

Christian Vierig/Getty

Speaking toVanity Fair,Pauline said a love of art “was in my family, and it was also really in the building in which I grew up,” adding, “It was always there.”

She used to do ballet with Sarah Hyland

Pauline Chalamet, Sarah Hyland.Randy Shropshire/Getty

Randy Shropshire/Getty

When she was a kid, Pauline did ballet withModern FamilystarSarah Hyland.

OnTheEllen DeGeneres Show, Timothée’s sister shared, “We would go together for pizza a lot after ballet or before, and she actually taught me that I could put parmesan cheese on top of my pizza. I didn’t know that until Sarah.”

She went to Bard College

Pauline Chalamet attends the 12th Champs Elysees Film Festival in 2023.Lyvans Boolaky/Getty

Lyvans Boolaky/Getty

Pauline studied at Bard College in New York, where she double-majored in political studies and theater and performance. “I became a really good student at Bard and I fell in love with learning,” shetoldNylonin 2021. “I cannot say I liked going to Bard. For me, I think it was very small. I felt money pressure. I really felt you needed to have a certain amount of money to be there.”

She added, “I was dating a boy at the time who was a photographer and so sweet, and I really credit him with why I stayed. I had this shift around sophomore year, where I was like, ‘I’m either making the most of this or I’m leaving.’ ”

On the red carpet at the 2018 Critics Choice Awards,Timothée revealedthat his sister “changed her major at college” because of directorGreta Gerwig. Pauline agreed, saying, “Yeah.”

She is an actress

Pauline Chalamet attends the Variety and Golden Globes Breakthrough Artists Party at Cannes Film Festival in 2023.Victor Boyko/Variety/Getty

Victor Boyko/Variety/Getty

Pauline plays Kimberly onThe Sex Lives of College Girls, which debuted in 2021.

Prior to starring on the Max series, Pauline had a role inJudd Apatow’s 2020 movie,The King of Staten Island.

Pauline wasn’t always certain that she wanted to be an actress. “I did and I didn’t. I went about it in many different ways,” she said onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I had a long path to getting where I am.”

Timothée loves his sister’s show

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Pauline’s younger brother is a fan ofThe Sex Lives of College Girls.

“My brother loves it,” shetold E! Newsin 2022. “You’ll have to get the story from him, because I believe he did watch it with one of my parents. So that is that.”

She is bilingual

Pauline Chalamet attends the Los Angeles Premiere Of “The Sex Lives Of College Girls” in 2021.Leon Bennett/WireImage

Leon Bennett/WireImage

Timothée’s big sister speaks both English and French. PaulinetoldInterviewMagazinethat it was difficult pretending she didn’t speak French for her character inThe Sex Lives of College Girls.

“There was an accent coach on set for the people who spoke French. She heard me try and put on [a] bad accent and started to work with me,” Pauline said. “It was interesting to learn which words are difficult if you don’t grow up speaking the language.”

She is musically talented

Pauline Chalamet in 2024.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Not only can Pauline act, but she can sing and play the piano. In 2020, she posted a video of herself singing a song in Italian.

“It came to me from my childhood and probably started with musicals,”she toldL’Officielin 2021 of her passion for music. “Because in fact, when you go to see a musical, there are the scenes that are acted and then, it’s like there’s a point when acting and speaking are no longer enough and you have to go through singing to communicate with the person in front, and that, I liked. That was a bit of my discovery of music.”

The actress shared that she takes “enormous pleasure in making and listening to music” because it relaxes her.

She is a mom

According toThe Mirror, the mystery man is filmmaker Rhys Raiskin.

“Icalled her. I was like, ‘Ok, we’re about to start, and, surprise!’ And she was like, I mean, you were just so supportive and had the best advice because also she’s just…Mindy does it all,” she said.

During a December 2024 appearance on Theo Von’sThis Past Weekendpodcast, Timothée said he couldn’t wait to get back to New York and “be with my new little niece.”

source: people.com