Pauline Chalamet

Chalamet was born in New York City, the first child of Nicole Flender and Marc Chalamet, and grew up in the federally subsidized artists' building Manhattan Plaza, in Hell's Kitchen. Her younger brother is actor Timothée Chalamet. Her mother, Nicole Flender, is a third-generation New Yorker, of half Russian Jewish and half Austrian Jewish descent. Flender is a real estate broker at The Corcoran Group, and a former Broadway dancer; Flender earned her bachelor's degree in French from Yale University, and has been a language and dance teacher. Her French father, Marc Chalamet, is an editor for the UNICEF and former New York correspondent for Le Parisien. Marc Chalamet is from Nîmes and is of a Protestant Christian background. Chalamet's paternal grandmother, who moved to France, was Canadian.
Chalamet is bilingual in English and French. In 2001, she began taking classes at the School of Ame…