Meet Pauline Chalamet, sister to Dune star Timothée Chalamet: the ballerina-turned-actress stars in HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls – and just told Barbie director Greta Gerwig she’s a mum

Nov 1 , 2024

Timothee Chalamet and sister Pauline Chalamet. Photo: Getty Images

The actress is close to her famous brother, has a deep love of reading and feels ‘very much at home’ in Paris; she recently welcomed her first child with partner Rhys Raiskin

Dune actor Timothée Chalamet is officially an uncle. It was revealed in early October that Chalamet’s elder sister, Pauline Chalamet, 32, welcomed her first child in September with her partner, film producer Rhys Raiskin.

Although Pauline generally keeps her private life under wraps, she couldn’t help sharing the news to Barbie director Greta Gerwig at Stella McCartney’s Paris Fashion Week show. In a video that circulated on X (formerly Twitter), she gushed, “Yeah! We just had a baby! Three weeks ago.”

The actress is also set to reprise her role as Kimberly Finkle in The Sex Lives of College Girls as the TV show returns for season three this month.

As she enters her mum era, here are a few things to know about The Sex Lives of College Girls actress.

Pauline Chalamet is from an accomplished family

Pauline Chalamet in a photo spread for Flaunt Magazine. Photo: @pauline.chalamet/Instagram

Pauline’s 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 Chalamet feels a special draw to Paris, France. Photo: @pauline.chalamet/Instagram

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.