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25 Facts About Pauline Chalamet

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Pauline Hope Chalamet was born on January 25,1992 and is an American-French actress and producer.

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Pauline Chalamet made her feature film debut in Judd Apatow's comedy The King of Staten Island.

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Pauline Chalamet's mother, Nicole Flender, is a third-generation New Yorker, of half Russian Jewish and half Austrian Jewish descent.

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Pauline Chalamet's French father, Marc Chalamet, is an editor for the UNICEF and New York correspondent for Le Parisien.

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Marc Pauline Chalamet is from Nimes and is of a Protestant Christian background.

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Pauline Chalamet was named after the Eric Rohmer film Pauline at the Beach.

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Pauline Chalamet spent her summers in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in Haute-Loire, at the house of her paternal grandparents, which led her to incorporate some French customs into her life.

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Pauline Chalamet loved France so much that as a teenager, she asked her father not to answer her if she spoke in English to him.

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Pauline Chalamet trained at Studio Maestro and the Rosella Hightower dance school in Mougins, South of France.

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Pauline Chalamet attended the School of American Ballet until 2010, after a biking accident hindered any chances of furthering her dancing career.

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Pauline Chalamet was later accepted at Fiorello H LaGuardia High School, where she majored in drama, and graduated in 2010.

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Pauline Chalamet interned at International Crisis Group, and for a while thought of becoming a human-rights lawyer, but quickly discarded the idea.

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Pauline Chalamet decided to move to Paris without her family's knowledge.

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Pauline Chalamet attended Cours Florent but was disappointed with the experience.

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Pauline Chalamet started her career with small roles in television shows such as One Life to Live and Royal Pains.

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Pauline Chalamet starred in the Canadian television pilot La Ville.

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In 2019, Pauline Chalamet wrote another short, Entre Deux Mondes, directed by Myriam Doumenq, and starred as Marion in Comme des Grands, directed by Ania Gauer and Julien Gauthier, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the IndieXFilmFest section of the Los Angeles International Film Festival.

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In 2019, Pauline Chalamet was cast as Joanne in the Judd Apatow comedy The King of Staten Island, which premiered in 2020.

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In 2023, through Gummy Films, Pauline Chalamet co-produced the short film Lemon Tree, directed by fellow founder Rachel Walden.

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Pauline Chalamet starred in the film What Doesn't Float, which she co-produced, directed by Gummy Films' co-founder Luca Balser.

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In September 2023, Pauline Chalamet starred in the Meet Cute podcast series Kerri, and was honored by the Creative Coalition at the 2023 Television Humanitarian Awards.

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Pauline Chalamet appeared as Paola in Iris Brey's Split, a French television series, alongside Alma Jodorowsky and Jehnny Beth.

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Pauline Chalamet is in a relationship with director Rhys Raiskin.

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In June 2024, it was announced that Pauline Chalamet was pregnant with their first child.

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Pauline Chalamet is an avid reader and has a book club with her friends.