Where Does Timothée Chalamet Live? Hint: It’s Not His Native NYC

He was born and raised in Manhattan, but where does Timothée Chalamet live now? For years, the star of A Complete Unknown held onto his New Yorker identity when he wasn’t traveling for work, but he took the plunge and invested in a Beverly Hills home base about three years ago. The move conveniently brought him closer not only to Hollywood, but also to his current girlfriend of two years, the one and only Kylie Jenner.

Read on for the details of the Dune actor’s digs.

Childhood home

Manhattan Plaza, the apartment building where Chalamet was raised. (Photo: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Chalamet grew up in Manhattan Plaza, a 46-floor complex in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood that has provided subsidized housing for middle-income families as part of New York’s Mitchell-Lama Housing Program since its completion in 1977. In particular, Manhattan Plaza houses performing artists, which is why it also has the nickname Broadway’s Bedroom. Other famed tenants have included Colman Domingo, Alicia Keys, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rourke, and Larry David (the real-life inspiration for Seinfeld’s Kramer resided next door). At one point, Samuel L. Jackson worked there as a security guard. The Wonka star’s parents still reside in the structure, which Chalamet regularly visits when he’s in NYC.

“I could draw the picture of an unconventional upbringing. I grew up in arts housing, Manhattan Plaza, which is a funky way to grow up,” the actor said of the home in Rolling Stone last year. “I could try to paint it negatively to you. I could try to paint it positively, but it’s a bit of everything. It’s nuanced.” Chalamet described some of his complicated feelings towards growing up in the arts residence during an interview with Anderson Cooper in February. “This building truthfully made me scared of acting,” he said, “because it’s a tough lifestyle, and a lot of people aren’t doing fantastically.”

NYC rentals

After graduating high school in 2013, the Little Women actor bounced around rentals and hotels in the Big Apple. He studied for a year at Columbia, then retreated to an apartment near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx while trying to nab a role on his next big project after 2014’s Interstellar. Then he moved to an apartment with two roommates in the East Village during a stint at NYU before dropping out of there, too, to focus on acting full time.

In the summer of 2020, Chalamet secured a Manhattan apartment of his own for the first time. The French Dispatch star “relished the mundanity of setting up his own place,” according to an interview with GQ, but he needed a little help along the way. “Zendaya helped me set up my first apartment in New York years ago,” he said of his Dune costar in February 2024. “The vibe was very teenage boy,” Zendaya added. “We just needed a few necessities. You know, cups and plates, knives and forks, things to clean.” The Euphoria star brought Chalamet to Bed Bath & Beyond to help him hook up his bachelor pad with “all the big boy stuff,” she said.

Beverly Hills home

Chalamet eventually decided he wanted to spread his wings and fly a little further from home. “After one too many days of doing the same thing, I just got this overwhelming sense that I was still playing the same hand of cards I’d had for a long time—but that I had a better hand to play,” he told GQ. “I was living in this rental place that didn’t feel like home. I was getting the same bacon, egg, and cheese at the same deli. Resisting any lifestyle change.” Ready to take a new leap, the Oscar-nominated actor gave up his New York apartment and bought a house in Beverly Hills. “I was able to spend 10 days in it before I went to Dune [2], and just having it as the home base, it psychologically helped.”