Timothée Hal Chalamet was born on December 27, 1995, in New York City, and broke out in 2017 with Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, the latter earning him an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Elio Perlman. He’d already shown range in Scott Cooper’s Hostiles and Miss Stevens, but Elio signaled an actor unusually attuned to interiority.

Avoiding “sensitive young man” typecasting, Chalamet pursued harder material and auteur collaborations: a young man battling addiction in Beautiful Boy, a reunion with Guadagnino on the cannibal road movie Bones and All, and ensemble turns in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women.

His role as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Dune: Part Two made him a blockbuster lead, while his title turn in Wonka revealed unexpected musicality. Playing a young Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown earned a second Oscar nomination, and he most recently starred in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.