رينيه زيلويغر

رينيه كاثلين زيلويغر (مواليد 25 أبريل 1969) ممثلة أمريكية من مدينة [كاتي ، تكساس] بولاية تكساس التحقت بمدرسة كاتي الثانوية عام 1981 وأصبحت رئيسة فريق تشجيع الفرق الرياضية، ثم التحقت بجامعة تكساس وتخرجت من جامعة تكساس في مدينة أوستن في تخصص اللغة الإنجليزية عام 1991.

البدايات
في عام 1993 قامت رينيه زيلويغر بأول أدوارها الفنية بقيامها بدور إحدى الضحايا في المسلسل التلفزيوني Murder In The Heartland والذي عرض على قناة ABC. تدور أحداث المسلسل حول تشارلي ستاركويذر الذي قتل عدة فتيات صغيرات في السن. شاركت في فيلم المخرج ريتشارد لينكليتر Dazed And Confused. شاركها البطولة ماثيو ماكونهي. وفي 1994 قامت بالتمثيل في الفيلم المرعب The Return Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. شاركها التمثيل ماثيو ماكونهي. كما أدت دوراً صغيراً في الفيلم Reality Bites. وأدت دور البطولة للمرة الأولى في الفيلم Love And A.45.

المشوار السينمائي
في عام 1995 لفتت زيلويغر إعجاب النقاد والمشاهدين لها من خلال الفيلم Empire Records. مدرسة تعمل في تكساس تقع في حب المؤلف روبرت إ. هوارد (فينسنت دونوفريو) في الفيلم الذي يحكي قصة حياته The Whole Wild World. حصلت على جائزة مهرجان ما ديل بلاتا للأفلام لفئة أفضل ممثلة. واستطاعت أن تتفوق على زميلاتها وينونا رايدر، بريجيت فوندا، ميرا سورفينو، وماريسا تومي لتحصل على دور شخصية المرأة المطلقة دوروثي بويد في الفيلم جيري ماغواير من إنتاج عام 1996. قام بالبطولة الرئيسية في الفيلم توم كروز وأخرجه كاميرون كرو. حصلت على جائزة بلوكباستر لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية في فيلم رومانسي كوميدي، جائزة النقاد السينمائيون لفئة أفضل ممثلة صاعدة، وجائزة مهرجان مجلس النقاد الوطني لفئة أفضل ممثلة صاعدة. و في 1997 قامت بالتمثيل في الجزء الثاني من الفيلم The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation، حصلت على جائزة مهرجان النجم الوحيد السينمائي والتلفزيوني لفئة أفضل ممثلة صاعدة. و في عام 1998 قامت بدور الزوجة غير السعيدة في فيلم المخرج بواز ياكين A Price Above Rubies. قامت بدور الصحفية قوية الشخصية التي تواجه مرض والدتها (ميريل ستريب) برفقة والدها الحنون (ويليام هارت) في الفيلم One True Thing. كما قامت بدور بسيط في الفيلم The Bachelor في عام 1999 .

في العام 2000 شاركت جيم كاري بطولة الفيلم الكوميدي Me, Myself & Irene. أصبحت نجمة حقيقية في مجال التمثيل من خلال دورها في الفيلم Nurse Betty. وحصل الفيلم على جائزة أفضل إخراج في مهرجان كان السينمائي الفرنسي. وتدور أحداث الفيلم حول نادلة في مطعم تعمل في كانساس تشاء الظروف أن تشهد في جريمة فتنتقل إلى كاليفورنيا لتتعرف على فتى أحلامها. حصلت على جائزة مهرجان العالم الذهبي الفني لفئة أفضل ممثلة رئيسية وجائزة مهرجان ساتالايت لفئة أفضل ممثلة في فيلم سينمائي رومانسي كوميدي. وفي عام 2001 حصلت على دور مهم في مسيرتها الفنية وهو بريجيت جونز في الفيلم Bridget Jones's Diary. وتدور أحداثه في المجتمع البريطاني واستطاعت أن تجيد اللهجة البريطانية بإتقان وترشحت للحصول على جائزة الأوسكار لأفضل ممثلة رئيسية. لكي تستطيع إقناع المشاهدين قررت زيادة وزنها 10 كيلوجرام لكي تؤدي المشاهد الثلاثة الأولى لها في الفيلم. حصلت على أجر بلغ 3.75 مليون دولار. اختارتها مجلة بيبول ضمن قائمة تضم خمسين امرأة الأجمل في السنة. اختارتها قناة E! ضمن قائمة تضم 20 ممثل وممثلة الأفضل في السنة. وفي 2002 قامت بدور ثانوي في الفيلم White Oleander. تحدت نفسها من خلال الغناء والرقص في الفيلم شيكاغو . والقصة مقتبسة من مسرحية تحمل نفس الاسم. أدت دور روكسي هارت التي قتلت حبيبها. ترشحت لجائزة الأوسكار لفئة أفضل ممثلة رئيسية وحصلت على جائزة مهرجان العالم الذهبي الفني لفئة أفضل ممثلة سينمائية في فيلم رومانسي كوميدي. حصلت على أجر بلغ 10 ملايين دولار. أدت دور دوريس داي أمام إيوان مكريغير في فيلم Down With Love في عام 2003. ولم يجتذب الفيلم المشاهدين في دور السينما. حصلت على أجر بلغ 6 ملايين دولار. شاركت جود لو ونيكول كيدمان بطولة الفيلم Cold Mountain. من إخراج أنتوني مينجيلا. تدور أحداث الفيلم حول روبي التي تساعد أدا في مواجهة مصاعب الحياة. من خلال هذا الدور حصلت على جائزة الأوسكار لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية، جائزة نقابة الممثلين لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية، جائزة العالم الذهبي لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية في فيلم سينمائي، جائزة الأكاديمية البريطانية في فئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية، جائزة النقاد السينمائيون لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية، جائزة مهرجان دالاس لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية، جائزة مهرجان تجمع نقاد سان دييغو السينمائيون لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية، وجائزة نقاد المنطقة الجنوبية الشرقية السينمائيون لفئة أفضل ممثلة ثانوية. حصلت على أجر بلغ 15 مليون دولار. تأثرت كثيرا بوفاة كلبها الذهبي اللون ديلان في شهر نوفمبر. في2004 بدأت بالتنويع في أدوارها بالقيام بدور السمكة أنجي في فيلم الرسوم المتحركة Shark Tale. وفي عام 2005 عادت لتقدم الجزء الثاني من الفيلم Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason. حصلت على أجر بلغ 11 مليون دولار. تزوجت من المغني كيني تشيسني في جزر العذراء الأمريكية في مفاجئة لجمهورها ثم بعد أربعة أشهر طلبت الطلاق منه. صبغت شهرها إلى اللون البني وقدمت أداء كبير في فيلم المخرج رون هاوارد Cinderella Man. وأدت دور ماي زوجة جيم برادوك راسل كرو. استلمت نجمتها في شارع المشاهير في هوليوود في 24 مايو. حصلت على جائزة قراء مجلة بيبول لفئة أفضل ممثلة عن مجمل أدوارها في السنة.وفي 2006 قدمت سيرة حياة الآنسة بوتر في الفيلم Miss Potter.

الجوائز والترشيحات
الترشيحات لجائزة الأوسكار:

أفضل ممثلة رئيسية عام 2002 عن فيلم Bridget Jones's Diary
أفضل ممثلة رئيسية عام 2003 عن فيلم Chicago
أفضل ممثلة مساعدة عام 2004 عن فيلم Cold Mountain و فازت بها
أفضل ممثلة رئيسية عام 2019 عن فيلم "جودي" وفازت بها.
الترشيحات لجائزة الجولدن جلوب:

أفضل ممثلة كوميدية أو أستعراضية عام 2001 عن فيلم Nurse Betty و فازت بها
أفضل ممثلة كوميدية أو أستعراضية عام 2002 عن فيلم Bridget Jones's Diary
أفضل ممثلة كوميدية أو أستعراضية عام 2003 عن فيلم Chicago و فازت بها
أفضل ممثلة مساعدة عام 2004 عن فيلم Cold Mountain و فازت بها
أفضل ممثلة كوميدية أو أستعراضية عام 2005 عن فيلم Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
أفضل ممثلة كوميدية أو أستعراضية عام 2007 عن فيلم Miss Potter
العائلة
الأب: إميل زيلويغر. مهندس معماري. سويسري المولد أسترالي النشأة تزوج من والدة رينيه في 1963.
الأم: كيلفريد زيلويغر. ممرضة وقابلة. نرويجية المولد.
الأخ: درو زيلويغر. مواليد 15/2/1967.
الحياة العاطفية
الصديق: سيمس إليسون. مواليد 10/3/1967. التقيا أثناء دراستهما في جامعة تكساس. انتحر في 6/6/1995.
الصديق: جوش بيت. تواعدا في نوفمبر 1996 أثناء تصوير فيلم Deciever ثم انفصلا لاحقا.
الصديق: جيم كاري. التقيا خلال فيلم Me, Myself & Irene. أعلنا للجميع عن علاقتهما في ديسمبر 1999. انفصلا في 2000 بعد مرور 18 شهر على علاقتهما.
الصديق: جورج كلوني. تواعدا لفترة محدودة في 2001.
الصديق: جاك وايت. تواعدا أثناء تصوير الفيلم Cold Mountain في يونيو 2003 ثم انفصلا ثم عادا لبعضهما في ديسمبر 2003 ثم انفصلا نهائيا في سبتمبر 2004.
الزوج: كيني تشيسني. مغني. التقيا في يناير 2005 أثناء حفل خيري لجمع تبرعات لضحايا زلزال تسونامي. تزوجا في 9/5/2005 واستمر حفل الزفاف 15 دقيقة فقط. انفصلا عن بعضهما في سبتمبر 2005.

Renee Zellweger

Renée Kathleen Zellweger (/rəˈneɪ ˈzɛlwɛɡər/; born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two BAFTA Awards. Zellweger was one of the world's highest-paid actresses by 2007 and was named Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year in 2009.[3][4]

Born in Texas, Zellweger studied English Literature at UT Austin. Initially aspiring to a career in journalism, she was drawn to acting following her brief work on stage during college. Following her film debut with a minor role in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993), Zellweger's first starring role came with the slasher film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). She rose to prominence with starring roles in Jerry Maguire (1996), One True Thing (1998), Me, Myself and Irene (2000), and Nurse Betty (2000), winning her first Golden Globe for the lattermost. For her portrayals of Bridget Jones in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Roxie Hart in the musical crime drama Chicago (2002), she garnered consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She reprised her role as Jones in two equally successful sequels, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016).

Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a loquacious farmer in the epic drama Cold Mountain (2003). She followed this with her portrayals of Mae Fox in Cinderella Man (2005) and author Beatrix Potter in Miss Potter (2006).[5] After starring roles in smaller scale films, such as Appaloosa (2008) and Case 39 (2009), she had a six-year hiatus from the screen. In 2019, Zellweger starred in the Netflix anthology series What/If and garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the biopic Judy, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas.[6][7] Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is from the Swiss town of Au, St. Gallen and descends from an Appenzell noble family.[8] He was a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business.[9] Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (née Andreassen),[9] is Norwegian of Kven and Sámi descent.[10][11][12][13] Kjellfrid grew up in Ekkerøy near Vadsø,[14] as well as Kirkenes, and was a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas.[15][16][17] Referring to her religious background, Zellweger has described herself as being raised in a family of "lazy Catholics and Episcopalians."[17]

Zellweger attended Katy High School, where she was a cheerleader, gymnast, speech team member,[18] and drama club member. She also participated in soccer, basketball, baseball, and football.[17] In 1986, her academic paper, "The Karankawas and Their Roots", won third place in the first ever Houston Post High School Natural Science Essay Contest.[19] After high school, she enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1991.[20] While at the university, Zellweger took a drama course as an elective, which sparked her interest in acting.[15]

In Zellweger's junior year, her father lost his job and was unable to support her at college, so she took a job as a cocktail waitress in Austin, Texas.[15][21] Zellweger said of the job, "I learned a lot. As much as I did in my classes that that club paid for... I learned not to judge people, [and] that things are not black and white."[15] Zellweger began getting small parts acting, and earned her Screen Actors Guild card for doing a Coors Light commercial.[22] Also while in college, she did "a bit part ... as a local hire" in the Austin-filmed horror-comedy film My Boyfriend's Back, playing "the girl in the beauty shop, maybe two lines. But the beauty shop [scene] got cut."[22] Her first job after graduation was working in a beef commercial, while simultaneously auditioning for roles around Houston, Texas.[15]

Career
1992–1995: Career beginnings
While still in Texas, Zellweger appeared in several independent and low-budget films. One was A Taste for Killing (1992),[20] followed by a role in the ABC miniseries Murder in the Heartland (1993).[20] In 1994, she appeared in Reality Bites,[23] the directorial debut of Ben Stiller,[24] and in the biographical film 8 Seconds, directed by John G. Avildsen.[25] Her first main role in a movie came with the 1994 horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, alongside Matthew McConaughey, playing a teenager who leaves a prom early with three friends who get into a car accident, which leads to their meeting a murderous family, led by the iconic Leatherface.[15] While the film went unnoticed,[26] Joe Leydon for Variety magazine lauded Zellweger, calling her "the most formidable scream queen since Jamie Lee Curtis went legit."[27]

In her next film, the crime comedy Love and a .45 (1994), Zellweger played a woman who plans a robbery with her boyfriend. Although the film received a limited release in theaters,[28] Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle applauded the main cast saying they were "all excellent in their roles" and noted that "Zellweger's character – all squeals and caged sexuality – seems a bit too close to Juliette Lewis' Mallory Knox (of Natural Born Killers) to be as fresh as it should be".[29] The part earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance. Zellweger subsequently relocated to Los Angeles, a move she had postponed several times because she believed she lacked the talent and experience to be a competitive actor in that city. She would next appear in the coming-of-age drama Empire Records (1995).[15] Rotten Tomatoes' consensus was: "Despite a terrific soundtrack and a strong early performance from Renee Zellweger, Empire Records is mostly a silly and predictable teen dramedy."[30]

1996–2000: Breakthrough and wider recognition
Zellweger became widely known to audiences with Jerry Maguire (1996), in which she played a single mother and the romantic interest of a glossy sports agent (Tom Cruise). The film received unanimous critical acclaim and grossed over US$273 million worldwide.[31][32] It was Cruise who chose her to play his love interest and later credited her with "revealing the core humanity of the movie".[33] Roger Ebert, showing approval of Zellweger and Cruise's chemistry in it, wrote: "The film is often a delight, especially when Cruise and Zellweger are together on the screen. He plays Maguire with the earnestness of a man who wants to find greatness and happiness in an occupation where only success really counts. She plays a woman who believes in this guy she loves, and reminds us that true love is about idealism."[34] She was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.[15]

In the religious drama A Price Above Rubies (1998), Zellweger starred as a young woman who finds it difficult to conform to the restrictions imposed on her by the community.[35] The film flopped at the box office,[36][37] but Zellweger was applauded by some critics such as Ebert, who, once again impressed by her, stated that she gave a "ferociously strong performance".[38] Zellweger also starred in the 1998 drama One True Thing, opposite William Hurt and Meryl Streep, as a woman forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. One True Thing took in a modest US$23 million in the US,[39] but had a positive critical response;[40][41] Variety magazine's Todd McCarthy stated about Zellweger: "Projecting gravity and impatience that she hasn't shown before, Zellweger is outstanding as the smart young woman who resents the interruption to her life's momentum but ends up growing in ways she never would have expected."[42]

After playing the female lead opposite Chris O'Donnell in the little-seen romantic comedy The Bachelor (1999),[43][44] Zellweger starred in the Farrelly brothers comedy Me, Myself & Irene (2000), with Jim Carrey,[45] as a woman on the run for what she believes is a false accusation set up by her mob-connected ex-boyfriend. The film was a commercial success,[46] grossing US$149 million worldwide.[47]

In Nurse Betty (also 2000), a black comedy directed by Neil LaBute and alongside Morgan Freeman,[15] Zellweger played a Kansas waitress who suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's murder.[48][49] San Francisco Chronicle found the actress to be "a performer who emanates kindness and a pure heart",[50] and Variety remarked: "Few actresses can convey the kind of honesty and humanity that Zellweger does here — it's hard to imagine the film without her dominant, thoroughly credible performance".[51] She won her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but she was in the bathroom when future co-star Hugh Grant announced her name.[15] Zellweger later protested: "I had lipstick on my teeth!"[52]

2001–2007: Critical acclaim and international stardom
In 2001, Zellweger gained the prized lead role of Bridget Jones, opposite Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, in the British romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Helen Fielding. The choice came amid much controversy since she was neither British nor overweight and did not smoke.[15] During casting, Zellweger was told she was too thin to play the chubby, chain-smoking Bridget, so she quickly embarked on gaining the required weight (20 pounds) and learning an English accent while she smoked herbal cigarettes.[53] Besides receiving voice coaching to fine-tune her accent, part of Zellweger's preparations involved spending three weeks working undercover in a "work experience placement" for British publishing firm Picador in Victoria, London.[15][54] Her performance as Bridget received praise from critics with Stephen Holden of The New York Times commenting, "Ms. Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real."[53] This role won her a second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and her first Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Leading Actress.[15] Bridget Jones's Diary was a major commercial success, earning US$281 million worldwide
Zellweger took on the role of a former actress serving as a foster mother, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, in the drama White Oleander, for which she received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Drama.[56] She also portrayed Roxie Hart in the 2002 musical film Chicago, directed by Rob Marshall and co-starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, and John C. Reilly. The movie garnered wide critical acclaim and won the Best Picture award at the 75th Academy Awards.[57][58] Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Tim Robey labeled Chicago as the "best screen musical [since 1972's Cabaret]",[59] and the San Francisco Chronicle commented, "Zellweger is a joy to watch, with marvelous comic timing and, in her stage numbers, a commanding presence".[60] She earned her second Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Leading Actress, winning her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.

In 2003, following the success of Chicago, Zellweger starred with Ewan McGregor in the little-seen[61] romantic comedy Down with Love, as a woman advocating female independence in the 1950s and early 1960s,[62][63] and appeared in Anthony Minghella's war drama Cold Mountain, opposite Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, playing a woman who helps a farmer following her father's death. The film garnered several award nominations and wins for its actors; Zellweger won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 76th Academy Awards, the 61st Golden Globe Awards, the 10th Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the 57th British Academy Film Awards.[64][65][66][67][68]

In 2004, Zellweger provided her voice for the DreamWorks animated feature Shark Tale,[69][70] and reprised her title role in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which made US$262 million around the globe[71] and earned her a fourth Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination.[72] In 2005, she played the wife of world heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock in Ron Howard's drama Cinderella Man, opposite Russell Crowe and Paul Giamatti.[73][74] In his review for the film, David Ansen of Newsweek, wrote that the actress "has an uncanny ability to make us swallow even the most movie-ish moments".[75][76] On May 24, 2005, Zellweger received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[77][78]

Zellweger portrayed acclaimed author Beatrix Potter in the biographical comedy Miss Potter, with Emily Watson and Ewan McGregor. She also served as an executive producer as she wanted to get more involved in the production.[79] William Arnold, of Seattle Post-Intelligencer concluded that Renée "strikes just the right chord of inspiration, eccentricity and uncompromising artistic drive,"[80] For her portrayal, she earned her sixth nomination for the Golden Globe Award (and her fifth one in the category of Best Actress – Musical or Comedy).[5] In 2007, she landed her voice in the animated family comedy Bee Movie and was awarded the Women in Film Crystal award.[81]

2008–2015: Career decline and hiatus
With George Clooney in his directorial venture, the period comedy Leatherheads (2008), about the early years of professional American football, Zellweger portrayed a Chicago Tribune newspaper reporter.[82][83] The film received largely mixed reviews and made US$13.5 million in its opening weekend, described as "disappointing" by website Box Office Mojo.[84][85] MTV.com praised the actress for "displaying an unexpected gift for drawling sarcasm",[86] but Kevin Williamson for website Jam! criticized her role, remarking that she, "as the kind of lippy heroine epitomized by Rosalind Russell, is miscast in a role that demands snark, not sleepy-eyed sweetness".[87] In the western Appaloosa (2008), Zellweger played a beguiling widow opposite Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. The film earned critical acclaim but grossed a modest US$20 million at the North American box office.[88][89][90] Zellweger produced the made-for-television feature Living Proof, starring Harry Connick Jr., about the true story of Dr. Denny Slamon. It was co-produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and premiered in October 2008 on Lifetime Television.[91]

Her next film was the 2009 comedy New in Town, in which she played a Miami high-powered consultant adjusting to her new life in a small Minnesota town. The movie rated poorly with reviewers and made a lackluster US$16 million in its domestic theatrical run.[92][93] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian stated that her "rabbity, dimply pout – surely the strangest facial expression in Hollywood – simpers and twitches out of the screen in this moderate girly flick that adheres with almost religious fanaticism to the feelgood romcom handbook".[94] In 2009, she also provided her voice for a supporting character in DreamWorks' computer-animated 3D feature film Monsters vs. Aliens,[95] and starred as the mother of actor George Hamilton in the comedy My One and Only,[96] which despite being distributed for a limited release to certain parts of the United States only,[97] was acclaimed by critics.[98] Bill Gray, of Entertainment Weekly felt that she played her part "to her strengths",[99] and reviewer Mick LaSalle found her performance to be a "standout".[100]

Zellweger took on the role of a social worker assigned to a mysterious girl in Case 39, a supernatural thriller she had filmed in 2006. The title had a lengthy post-production and was not released in theaters in the United States until 2010.[101][102] It was universally panned by critics and only earned US$5.3 million in its opening weekend,[103][104] leading Indiewire to write that Zellweger "faces an [u]ncertain [f]uture" as she was in "an unforgiving industry that doles out few juicy roles for women over 40."[105] The road drama My Own Love Song, in which she played a former singer suffering from paralysis, was screened at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival,[106] and released for DVD.[107][108][109][110]

After My Own Love Song was released, Zellweger took a six-year hiatus from screen acting,[107] as she found the time to "go away and grow up a bit". Reflecting on this period of time in a July 2016 interview with British Vogue, she explained: "I was fatigued and wasn't taking the time I needed to recover between projects, and it caught up with me [...] I got sick of the sound of my own voice".[111][112] In 2013, Zellweger co-created and executive produced Cinnamon Girl, an original drama series set in the Hollywood movie and music scenes of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the Lifetime network passed on the pilot.[113]

2016–present: Resurgence and Judy
Following her six-year hiatus from acting, Zellweger made her career comeback opposite Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), the third part in the Bridget Jones franchise, portraying Jones in her forties and single as she discovers that she is pregnant and must work out who the father is. It was met with a positive response by critics and grossed US$211.9 million worldwide.[114][115] Village Voice found the movie to be "the warmest and most satisfying of the series" and concluded that Zellweger's "wise, light-hearted performance anchors this happy reunion, a surprising and refreshing gift from a creative well that seemed to have run dry".[116] In the crime drama The Whole Truth, directed by Courtney Hunt and opposite Keanu Reeves, Zellweger took the role of Loretta Lassiter, the mother of a teenager suspected of murdering his wealthy father.[117][118][119][119] Filmed in New Orleans in July 2014, The Whole Truth was released on October 21, 2016, for selected theaters and video-on-demand, receiving average reviews.[120] Variety remarked: "Truth be told, [Reeves and Zellweger] deserve better than this predictable courtroom drama".[121]

In Same Kind of Different as Me (2017), a film adaptation of the autobiographical book by the same name, Zellweger starred with Djimon Hounsou, Olivia Holt and Jon Voight, as the wife of an art dealer whose struggling relationship is changed for the better by a homeless man.[122][123] The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a moderate commercial success. The Wrap, nevertheless, remarked: "Zellweger, in fact, delivers a gentle, thoughtful, yet headstrong performance as the wife who digs in her heels to get human decency out of the people she cares for the most".[124] She played the friend of a New York City singer who gets a life-changing medical diagnosis in the independent drama Here and Now (2018), opposite Sarah Jessica Parker.[125] Despite her brief appearance in the film, Entertainment Weekly saw it highlighted by "the magnetic [actress], barely concealing her suburban rage behind a cheerfully swirled glass of wine."[126]

In 2019, Zellweger first starred as Anne Montgomery in the Netflix thriller miniseries What/If.[127] Although the show received mixed reviews from critics, Zellweger's performance was praised with Haider Rifaat of The Express Tribune writing, "Not to forgo the incredible acting prowess of Zellweger, who impeccably embraces the character of Anne. Subtle gestures, symbolic interaction and character development are some commendable aspects that intensify the actors' performances."[128] In the same year, she starred as Judy Garland in the biopic Judy. Based on the West End and Broadway play End of the Rainbow, the film chronicles the last years of Garland's life, shortly before her death in 1969. Zellweger performed her own vocals in the film and her songs had to be performed in front of a live audience. Judy premiered at the Telluride Film Festival to positive reviews, with Zellweger's performance garnering widespread critical acclaim and being considered by many critics to be the best of her career.[129] Zoe Gahan of Vanity Fair found her to be "witty, sharp and devastating in the title role" and added that "it is hard to tell where Garland stops and Zellweger starts".[130] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone opined, "Zellweger performs miracles playing Judy Garland: singing her heart out, baring her bruised soul and acting with a ferocity that ultimately rises to a state of grace."[131] For her performance in Judy, Zellweger won numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Zellweger's win made her just the seventh actress to win an Oscar in both of the acting categories and the fourth to win Best Actress after Best Supporting Actress.

Public image
Zellweger has appeared on the covers and photo sessions of several magazines throughout her career; she appeared on the September 1997 cover of Vanity Fair,[132] and in subsequent years, the list has grown to include Vogue, Detour, Allure and Harper's Bazaar.[132] Zellweger often attracts attention for her style on awards shows and red carpet events,[133][134] specifically for her frequent use of dresses designed by Carolina Herrera,[135][136][137][138] a close friend who has worked with the actress for over 15 years after they met at a Costume Institute gala.[139] She also is a frequent guest star at New York Fashion Week, among other fashion events.[140][141][142]

In April 1997, Vanity Fair named her part of "Hollywood's Next Wave of Stars".[143] She was placed on E!'s "Top 20 Entertainers of 2001" list and was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 2003.[144] She also ranked number 72 in the "Top 100 Celebrities" list made by Forbes in 2006,[145] and the following year, she was placed at 20 among "the 20 richest women in entertainment", by the magazine.[146]

After Zellweger's appearance at the 21st-annual Elle magazine Women in Hollywood Awards in October 2014, there was media and social commentary that she was hardly recognizable, which resulted in speculation that she had undertaken substantial cosmetic surgery.[147][148] Zellweger responded, "Perhaps I look different. Who doesn't as they get older?! Ha. But I am different. I'm happy."[149]

Personal life
Relationships
From 1999 to 2000, Zellweger was engaged to Jim Carrey.[150] In 2003, she had a brief relationship with musician Jack White.[151] In May 2005, Zellweger married singer Kenny Chesney.[152] Four months later the couple obtained an annulment.[153]

In 2009, she started dating Bradley Cooper, after having met on the set of Case 39 in 2009.[154] They separated in 2011.[155][156]

From 2012 to 2019, she was in a relationship with Doyle Bramhall II, who is a musician, songwriter, and producer.[157][158][159]

Activism
Zellweger took part in the 2005 HIV prevention campaign of the Swiss federal health department.[160]

Zellweger is one of the patrons for gender equality foundation The GREAT Initiative; in 2011 she visited Liberia with the charity.[161][162] In April 2011, she collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger to design a handbag to raise money and awareness for the Breast Health Institute.[163] "Because of the experiences of close friends and family members who have had to endure and battle the challenges of breast cancer, I am a passionate supporter of breast health education and charitable causes," Zellweger stated about joining the campaign.[164]

Awards and nominations
Among her numerous accolades for her acting work, Zellweger has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Independent Spirit Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, a British Independent Film Awards, and awards from the London Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Her performance as Judy Garland in Judy made her the only the second actor after Cate Blanchett to win an Academy Award for portraying an Academy Award-winning actor.[165] Zellweger is only the fourth actress, after Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, and Blanchett, to win Best Actress after winning Best Supporting Actress

ديلي ألي

باميديلي جيرمين "ديلي" ألي (بالإنجليزية: Bamidele Jermaine "Dele" Alli) هو لاعب كرة قدم إنجليزي من مواليد 11 أبريل 1996 بمدينة ميلتون كينز في إنجلترا. يلعب في مركز الوسط، ويلعب حالياً مع نادي توتنهام هوتسبر، وقد سبق له اللعب مع نادي ميلتون كينز دونز. كما لعب بدأ مع منتخب إنجلترا لكرة القدم في 2015 ويبلغ طوله 188 سم. وكان من الأسماء التي مثلت المنتخب الأنجليزي في كأس العالم بروسيا 2018
مسيرته
ميلتون كينز دونز
بداية مسيرته
أنضم ديلي إلى ميلتون كينز دونز عندما كان عمره 11 عاماً في 2007. وكان أول ظهور له مع الفريق الأول في 2 نوفمبر 2012 عندما بلغ الـ16 عاماً من عمره حيث دخل كبديل في الدقيقة 64 ضد كامبريدج سيتي في كأس إنجلترا. وكان قد حجز مركزاً أساسياً مع الفريق في موسم 2013/14.

موسم 2014/15
بدأ ديلي موسمه بتميز فحقق جائزة لاعب الشهر في الدرجة الثانية. في فوز ميلتون كينز دونز الكبير على مانشستر يونايتد 4-0 سجل ديلي هدفاً مما جعله محط اهتمام العديد من كبار الأندية الأوروبية من بينها ليفربول و بايرن ميونخ. في 18 سبتمبر وسع عقده مع الفريق إلى 2017 وبعد ذلك بيومين سجل هاتريك ضد كرو ألكساندرا في فوز فريقه 6-1. وقد كان هذا الهاتريك الثاني في مسيرته. في يوم 2 فبراير من 2015 في الساعات الأخيرة من سوق الإنتقالات وقع ديلي لـ توتنهام هوتسبر لمدة خمس سنوات ونصف مقابل 5 مليون باوند. بعد انتقاله إلى توتنهام ديلي الي عاد بنظام الاعارة إلى فريقه ميلتون كينز دونز إلى نهاية الموسم. في 19 أبريل حصل على جائزة أفضل لاعب شاب في الدرجة الثانية وساعد فريقه على الحصول على وصافة الدرجة الثانية والتأهل للدرجة الأولى.

موسم 2015/16
في 8 أغسطس 2015 شارك ديلي الي كبديل للمرة الأولى مع توتنهام هوتسبر ضد مانشستر يونايتد ولعب آخر 13 دقيقة من خسارة فريقه 1-0. سجل أول اهدافه مع الفريق في 22 أغسطس ضد ليستر سيتي في التعادل 1-1. بعد بداية رائعة مع الفريق بتسجيله 5 أهداف وصناعة 3 في أول 18 لقاء مع الفريق وقع عقداً جديداً يمتد إلى 2021. بعد ذلك بـ11 يوماً سجلاً هدفاً تاريخياً ضد كريستيال بالاس حصل على جائزة هدف الموسم في الدوري الإنجليزي. ومع نهاية الموسم كان قد شارك في 46 مباراة وسجل 10 أهداف. وحصل على جائزة أفضل لاعب شاب في الدوري الإنجليزي.

موسم 2016/17
قبل بداية الموسم، غير ديلي الاسم في قميصه من "الي" إلى "ديلي" وبرر ذلك بأنه لا علاقة له بهذا اللقب بسبب انفصاله عن والدته. جاء أول اهدافه في الموسم في الفوز ضد ستوك سيتي 4-0 في 10 سبتمبر 2016. اتبع ذلك بهدف في مرمى مانشستر سيتي في الفوز 2-0 في 2 أكتوبر 2016. وتابع سجله التهديفي بثلاث ثنائيات متتالية ضد ساوثهامبتون، واتفورد و تشلسي وكسر رقم تشلسي في تحقيق 13 فوز على التوالي.

Dele Alli

Bamidele Jermaine Alli (born 11 April 1996; /ˈdɛli ˈæli/ DEL-ee AL-ee;[5]) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team.

Born and raised in Milton Keynes, he joined the youth system at Milton Keynes Dons aged 11 and broke into the first team five years later, during the 2012–13 season. Over the next two-and-a-half years he made 88 official appearances for the team, scoring 24 goals. He signed for Tottenham Hotspur in February 2015 for an initial fee of £5 million, being loaned back to the Dons for the remainder of the season. In each of his first two campaigns at White Hart Lane, Alli was voted the PFA Young Player of the Year and made the PFA Team of the Year.

Alli played for the England U17, U18 and U19 teams, before making his senior debut in 2015. He was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, helping England to the semi-finals of the latter.
Club career
Milton Keynes Dons
Early career
Alli joined the youth system at Milton Keynes Dons when he was 11 years old.[4] He made his debut for the first team as a sixteen-year-old on 2 November 2012, coming on as a 64th-minute substitute for Jay O'Shea in a 0–0 draw with Southern Football League club Cambridge City in the FA Cup first round at Milton Road.[6] His first touch in professional football was a back-heeled pass.[4] His first goal came in the replay against Cambridge eleven days later, where he scored in a 6–1 win at Stadium MK on his first start.[7] He made his league debut in a 2–3 defeat to Coventry City at home on 29 December, where he played 71 minutes before being replaced by Zeli Ismail.[8] His only other league appearance in the 2012–13 Football League One season, came as a second-half substitute for Patrick Bamford in the last match of the season, a 2–0 win over Stevenage at Broadhall Way.[9]

2013–14 season
The 2013–14 season saw Alli break into the MK Dons first team on a regular basis. He started the Dons' first league match of the season, a 0–0 draw away at Shrewsbury Town.[10] In his first Football League Trophy appearance, Alli scored to help MK Dons beat Northampton Town 2–0 and thus progress to the second round of the tournament.[11] On 28 September, Alli scored his first professional league goal in the 4–1 thrashing of Stevenage.[12] After being in and out of the first team picture in late 2013 due to injury setbacks, Alli would go on and establish himself as a first-choice player in 2014. He scored the opening goal in the 3–2 win over Shrewsbury Town at Stadium mk on 11 January, with a header from Stephen Gleeson's pinpoint pass.[13] On 11 March, against Notts County at Meadow Lane, aged 17 years and 11 months old, Alli scored a hat-trick to guide the 'Dons to a 3–1 victory.[14] His next and final goal of the 2013–14 season, came on 5 April against Coventry City at the Sixfields Stadium; Alli struck a thunderous volley from 25 yards out as MK Dons defeated Coventry, 2–1.[15] He made 37 appearances in all competitions during the 2013–14 season, scoring 7 times, with 33 appearances and 6 goals in the league.

2014–15 season
With the departure of Gleeson to Birmingham City in June 2014,[16] Alli became the first-choice central midfield partner to Darren Potter. He started the season brightly, playing the first league match of the season as the Dons overcame a 2–0 deficit to defeat Gillingham, 4–2.[17] He then helped the team to a 3–1 win over arch-enemies, AFC Wimbledon, in the League Cup first round.[18] His first goal of the 2014–15 season came in the first away league match, a 3–2 defeat to Peterborough United, where he scored a tap-in from Will Grigg's deflected shot.[19]

On 26 August, Alli played the full 90 minutes in the League Cup second round as MK Dons recorded a historic 4–0 win over Manchester United.[20] It was reported that numerous scouts from top clubs across Europe attended the match to watch him play, including representatives from Bayern Munich and Liverpool.[4][21] In the match after the 4–0 League Cup win over Manchester United, Alli continued his rich vein of form with a goal curled in from the edge of the box in a 2–0 win over Crawley Town.[22] After the international break, Alli played 77 minutes in the 5–3 win against Barnsley, assisting the Dons second goal and scoring their third goal himself with a chip over the Barnsley goalkeeper.[23] He was chosen as the Football League Young Player of the Month for August.[4]

On 18 September, Alli extended his contract with MK Dons until June 2017.[24] Two days later, in a match against Crewe Alexandra, he scored a hat-trick and achieved one assist in what turned out to be a 6–1 victory for the Dons. It was the second hat-trick of his career and the first he achieved at home, which also led to him winning the Man of the Match award.[25]

Tottenham Hotspur
On 2 February 2015, Alli signed for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur in the last hours of the mid-season transfer window on a five-and-a-half-year deal for an initial fee of £5 million.[26]

Milton Keynes Dons (loan)
Following his transfer to Tottenham Hotspur, Alli was immediately loaned back to MK Dons for the remainder of the 2014–15 season.[26] On 19 April, he was chosen as the Young Player of the Year at the Football League Awards.[27] The season ended on 3 May with Milton Keynes Dons promoted automatically to the Championship as runners-up behind Bristol City, after a 5–1 home win over relegated Yeovil Town.[28]

2015–16 season
On 8 August 2015, Alli made his Tottenham debut against Manchester United in the Premier League as a substitute in a 1–0 defeat away at Old Trafford, playing the last 13 minutes in place of Eric Dier.[29] Two weeks later, he scored his first goal for the club after coming on for Christian Eriksen in the 1–1 draw against Leicester City.[30]

On 13 September, Alli made his first start for Tottenham in a 1–0 win against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.[31] On 2 November, he started and scored the second goal in an eventual 3–1 win over Aston Villa.[32] Six days later he started his first North London Derby alongside fellow England youngster Dier in central midfield, and was awarded Man of the Match in the 1–1 draw between rivals Arsenal and Tottenham.[33] On 5 December 2015, he scored his third goal for Tottenham in the 2015–16 campaign in a 1–1 draw against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns.[34]

Following an impressive start to his Premier League career scoring five goals and making three assists in his first 18 league matches, he was rewarded with a new long-term contract until 2021 on 12 January.[35] Eleven days later he scored a 25-yard volley in a 3–1 win at Crystal Palace; BBC Sport pundit and former Spurs player Garth Crooks wrote "Well, I've seen some glorious goals scored in my time watching football matches but I doubt whether I will see a goal scored with such individual flair, and by a 19-year-old, as Dele Alli's goal at Selhurst Park – it was sheer class".[36] On 13 April, he was named on the six-man shortlist for 2015–16's PFA Young Player of the Year
On 18 April 2016, he scored his first brace for Tottenham in a 0–4 away win at Stoke City,[38] reaching ten goals in his debut Premier League season.[39] He was voted the season's PFA Young Player of the Year.[40] On 28 April, Alli was banned by the Football Association for three matches, effectively ending his Premier League season, for an off-the-ball incident against West Bromwich Albion in which he punched midfielder Claudio Yacob in the stomach. He later apologised for the incident on Twitter, stating, "Gutted that my season is over. Shouldn't have reacted like I did. Will learn from this and come back stronger."[41]

2016–17 season
Ahead of the season, Alli changed his kit name to Dele, saying that he had "no connection" to his legal surname due to his separation from his mother.[42] His first goal of the season came in a 4–0 win against Stoke City on 10 September 2016.[43] Four days later, he made his UEFA Champions League debut in a 1–2 loss to AS Monaco at Wembley Stadium.[44] His first Champions League goal came against CSKA Moscow at the same stadium on 7 December 2016.[45] Between 18 December 2016 and 21 January 2017, Alli scored eight goals in six league matches, earning the award of Premier League Player of the Month award for January 2017. This included three consecutive braces against Southampton, Watford and Chelsea.[46]

On 23 February, Alli received his first red card for a dangerous tackle on Brecht Dejaegere in Tottenham's UEFA Europa League draw with K.A.A. Gent which saw Spurs eliminated at the Round of 32 stage of the competition.[47] On 20 April 2017, Alli was again named in the PFA Team of the Year,[48] having been included in the League One selection for 2015[49] and the Premier League selection in 2016.[50] On 23 April, he was named the PFA Young Player of the Year,[51] the day after scoring in Tottenham's 4–2 FA Cup semi-final loss to rivals Chelsea at Wembley Stadium.[52]

2017–18 season
Alli scored his first goal of the season in the opening game of the 2017–18 season away at Newcastle that finished in a 2–0 win.[53] However, he was criticised for his inconsistency this season, failing to perform as well as the previous season.[54][55] On 1 April 2018, Alli scored twice in the away fixture against Chelsea, helping Tottenham win 3–1, which was their first win in 28 years at Stamford Bridge.[56]

2018–19 season
On 11 August 2018, Alli scored his first goal of the season, scoring the winning goal in the opening league match against Newcastle United.[57]

On 26 September, Alli was named as captain for Tottenham's EFL Cup third round tie with Watford. The tie, played at Stadium MK due to delays in the completion of Tottenham's new stadium, marked Alli's return to the home ground of his boyhood club MK Dons, and the return to his home town of Milton Keynes for the first time as a Tottenham player. The tie finished 2–2, with Alli scoring both a penalty in normal time and the winning penalty in a deciding penalty shoot-out.[58]

In October 2018, Alli signed a new six-year deal at Tottenham, which would keep him at the club until 2024.[59] He also scored in the 3–1 home win against Chelsea, which was his sixth goal in five games against Chelsea, and the first defeat for Chelsea in the Premier League this season.[60] In January 2019 he was rule out until March with a hamstring injury.[61]

2019–20 season
Alli missed the start of the season due to a hamstring injury.[62] He returned to the team in the North London Derby on 1 September 2019, coming on as a substitute.[63] He scored his first goal of the season in the match against Watford, drawing 1–1.[64] In November 2019, Mauricio Pochettino was dismissed by the club to be replaced by José Mourinho. Mourinho played Alli as an attacking player just behind Harry Kane, reverting to his earlier position after playing in a deeper midfield role the previous two years. According to Mourinho, "Dele is not a midfield player".[65][66] The attacking role gave Alli greater freedom to score, and he scored three goals in his first three games under Mourinho, two of which came in the game against Bournemouth.[67]

In February 2020, shortly after the outbreak of the coronavirus, Alli posted a video on Snapchat in which he joked about the outbreak and appeared to mock an Asian man. Alli later deleted the post and released a video apology on Weibo.[68]

International career
Alli has made several appearances at U17 and U18 levels for England.[69] On 27 August 2014, Alli was called up to the England U19 squad following an impressive start to the campaign.[70] He made his debut for England U19 in the 1–1 draw against Germany U19. In the match, Alli assisted the opening goal feeding a through ball to Bradley Fewster who gave England a 1–0 lead
In February 2015, it was reported that John Fashanu would try to convince Alli to play for Nigeria.[72] However, on 1 October of that year, he was included in Roy Hodgson's England squad for the final UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying matches against Estonia and Lithuania.[73] He made his debut against the former on 9 October, coming on as a late substitute for Ross Barkley in a 2–0 win.[74]

On 17 November 2015, Alli made his first start for the England senior team, scoring the opening goal from a long range shot to beat Spurs teammate, goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in a 2–0 win against France at Wembley Stadium.[75] He was again named in the starting line-up for England's friendly match against world champions Germany on 26 March 2016. Alli was named man of the match by the BBC as England recovered from 0–2 down to win 3–2 at the Berlin Olympiastadion
Alli was selected for the 23-man England squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[77] On 7 July, Alli scored the second goal of the game in a 2–0 win over Sweden in the quarter-finals of the competition, as England reached the semi-finals for the first time in 28 years.[78] Alli played for England in the semi-final match against Croatia, winning a free-kick through which England took the lead, though they eventually lost 2–1 following extra-time.[79]

In October 2019 he was left out of the England squad for forthcoming Euro 2020 qualifying matches.[80]

Player profile
Style of play
Alli is widely considered one of the best young midfielders of his generation,[81][82][83] and has won PFA Young Player of the Year twice in a row while only 21.[84] He is also considered an all-round player who can play effectively as a second striker.[85] According to Mauricio Pochettino: "In the box, he looks like a striker, and outside the box, he plays like a midfielder." Rafael van der Vaart said of Alli that he is "fast, fluid and has a great skill set",[86] while Frank Lampard praised Alli's intelligence in his ability "to get into the box without being marked".[87]

Alli watches the best players to try to learn from their style of play, including Lionel Messi, Xabi Alonso, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi as well as his idol Steven Gerrard.[88] His teammate Harry Winks described Alli as being like Fernandinho, but Dele Alli has described his own playing style as "a cross between Gerrard and Yaya Touré."[89] Alli has been widely accused of diving and has received bookings for simulation.[90][91][92][93][94]

Reception
Alli is considered the world's most expensive midfielder from a transfer value perspective by the CIES.[95]

Personal life
Alli was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire,[96] to a Yoruba Nigerian father Kehinde[97] and English mother Denise. Kehinde moved to the United States a week after Alli's birth.[98] Alli was initially brought up by his mother, who suffered from alcohol problems.[98] At the age of nine, he moved to Nigeria with his father, where he spent two years in an international school before returning to Milton Keynes to live with his mother.[99] Alli went to Stantonbury Campus[88] and The Radcliffe School in Wolverton.[100]

At the age of 13, he moved into the family home of Alan and Sally Hickford, parents of another young footballer with MK Dons and whom he refers to as his "adoptive parents" although he was never legally adopted by them.[98][101] In the summer of 2016, Alli elected to stop wearing his surname on his match shirts because he felt no connection with the Alli family name, instead opting for "Dele".[42]

Alli was a Liverpool fan growing up with Steven Gerrard his childhood idol,[4] and saw Gerrard and Frank Lampard as good role models on how they act as professionals.[88] He is also a fan of British hip hop music, which led rapper Cadet to release a single referencing the footballer, "Advice"

Neil Robertson

Neil Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player. He made his first breakthrough into the top professional ranks in the 2006/2007 season. He won the 2010 World Championship and was the world number one later in the same year, a ranking that he attained again in 2013 and 2014. On the 10th November, Neil Robertson won the 2019 Champion of Champions tournament for the second time in his career.

Robertson is the only Australian to have won a ranking event, and was undefeated in his first six televised finals.[2] Robertson is also one of thirteen players to win both the world and UK titles, and one of eleven to win the Triple Crown of World Championship, UK Championship and Masters. As a prolific break-builder, Robertson has compiled more than 650 century breaks in professional competition. During the 2013/2014 season he became the first player to make 100 centuries in a single season.

Robertson is considered Australia's best ever snooker player, as well as one of the best players from outside the United Kingdom in the sport's history.[3] He plays left-handed
Life and career
Early career
Robertson began his snooker career at 14, when he became the youngest player to make a century break in an Australian ranking event.[5] He began his professional career in the 1998/1999 season.[6] Then, when he was 17 years old, he reached the third qualifying round of the 1999 World Championship.[7]

In July 2003, Robertson won the World Under-21 Snooker Championship in New Zealand.[5] This earned him a vital wildcard spot on the subsequent WPBSA Main Tour. In 2003, he won the qualifying tournament for a wildcard place at the 2004 Masters,[8] where he subsequently lost 2–6 to Jimmy White in the first round.

In 2004/2005 season, he moved up to the top 32 in the rankings, reaching the final stages of 6 of the 8 tournaments, despite having to play at least 2 qualifying matches for each one. He qualified for the final stages of the 2005 World Championship, losing 7–10 to Stephen Hendry in the first round.[9]

In the 2005/2006 season, he continued to progress, moving up to the top 16 of the rankings at the end of the season. He reached 4 quarter-finals in the season, including the 2006 World Championships, in which he fought back from 8–12 down to level at 12–12 against eventual champion Graeme Dott, before losing the final frame by inadvertently potting the final pink, which he needed on the table in his attempts to snooker the Scotsman.

Breakthrough: first ranking title
He made his breakthrough in the 2006/2007 season.[10] After finishing top of his group at the 2006 Grand Prix's round robin stage (he lost only one match: his opener against Nigel Bond by 2–3), Robertson then beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–1 in the quarter-finals of the event. So he went on to the semi-finals, being only the fourth Australian ever to do so in a ranking event. He beat Alan McManus 6–2 in the semis, to reach his first major final, where he faced a fellow first-time finalist, the unseeded Jamie Cope, whom he beat comfortably by 9–5 to win his first ever professional ranking tournament.[11] The win earned Robertson £60,000, his highest amount of money earned in one tournament.

Robertson had early exits in both the UK Championship and the Masters, but found his form again en route to the final of the Welsh Open. He defeated Stephen Hendry 5–3, making a break of 141 in the last frame, then recovered from 4–3 down to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–4 in the quarter-finals. He beat Steve Davis 6–3 in the semi-finals, and surprise finalist Andrew Higginson 9–8 in the final to take the title. He led 6–2 after the first session, then dropped six frames in a row to come within one frame of defeat, but took the remaining three frames to win the match.

He reached the second round of the 2007 World Championship, losing 10–13 to Ronnie O'Sullivan despite at one stage winning six frames in a row.[12]

Robertson started 2007/2008 season poorly, making early exits in three of the first four ranking events, plus the 2008 Masters[13] and 2008 Malta Cup. He did reach the quarter-finals of the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy after wins over Jamie Cope and Ian McCulloch. He finished the season ranked 10th, but outside the top sixteen on the one-year list.

2008–2010
After a disappointing start to the 2008/2009 season, Robertson reached the final of the 2008 Bahrain Championship, where he played Matthew Stevens. The match lasted almost 6 hours in total, with the Australian edging it 9–7. During the 2009 Masters Robertson and opponent Stephen Maguire set a record of 5 consecutive century breaks. Robertson made 2 centuries, and Maguire made 3, with the 3rd sealing a 6–3 win over the Australian. At the 2009 World Championship Robertson defeated Steve Davis, Ali Carter and Stephen Maguire to reach the semi-finals of the World Championship for the first time, before losing to Shaun Murphy 14–17 (after at one stage recovering from 7–14 behind to level at 14–14).

In October 2009, Robertson clinched the 2009 Grand Prix trophy in Glasgow with a 9–4 win over China's Ding Junhui in the final. His semi-final match with defending champion John Higgins was won on the final black of the deciding frame. Robertson's fourth title made him the most successful player from outside the UK and Ireland in ranking tournaments, although Ding equalled his total at that season's UK Championship.[14] He achieved his 100th career century during the 2009 Grand Prix.[15]

On 1 April 2010, Robertson made the first official maximum break of his career in his second round match in the 2010 China Open against Peter Ebdon.

At the 2010 World Championship, Robertson defeated Fergal O'Brien 10–5 in the first round. In his second round match against Martin Gould Robertson trailed 0–6 and 5–11 before recovering to win the match 13–12. In the quarter-finals he defeated Steve Davis 13–5. He faced Ali Carter in the semi-finals, winning 17–12 to reach the final. There he defeated 2006 champion Graeme Dott 18–13 to become only the third player from outside the UK (and only the second from outside the UK and Ireland), and the first Australian, to become world champion in the modern era of the game.[16] The win took him to a career-high ranking of No. 2 in the following season. Although the record books show Australian Horace Lindrum triumphed in 1952, that was the year when the sport's leading players staged a boycott and to this day in many circles Lindrum is not regarded as a credible world champion.[17]

2010/2011
Robertson started the new season by losing in the first round of the 2010 Shanghai Masters to Peter Ebdon. However, at the World Open Robertson was drawn in the last 64 against Graeme Dott in a repeat of their world final, Robertson won 3–1 and went on to beat David Morris, Andrew Higginson, Ricky Walden and Mark Williams before producing an assured display to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–1 in the final, to confirm his position as the eighth world number 1 in snooker.[18] Robertson was invited to the Premier League Snooker, where he reached the semi-final. He lost 1–5 against O'Sullivan.[19] Robertson reached the quarter-final of the UK Championship, where he lost 7–9 against Shaun Murphy.[20]

Robertson reached the quarter-final of the Masters, but lost 4–6 against Mark Allen.[21] Robertson lost in the first round of the German Masters 4–5.[22] At the next two ranking tournaments Robertson lost in the second round, 1–4 against Graeme Dott at the Welsh Open and 1–5 against Peter Ebdon at the China Open.[23][24] Robertson could not defend his World Snooker Championship trophy, as he lost 8–10 in the first round against eventual finalist Judd Trump.[25]

2011/2012
Robertson's season started in a disappointing fashion as he lost 4–5 to Dominic Dale in the last 16 of his home tournament – the Australian Goldfields Open.[26] However, his form soon improved and at the next world ranking event, the Shanghai Masters, he dismissed Liang Wenbo, Michael Holt and John Higgins, before losing 5–6 to Mark Williams in a tightly contested semi-final.[27] His first silverware of the season came in Warsaw at the PTC Event 6, where he beat Ricky Walden 4–1 in the final.[28] This success was quickly followed up by another PTC title in Event 8 where he again won by a 4–1 scoreline, this time against Judd Trump.[29] Victory ensured that Robertson maintained his record of never having lost in a ranking event final. He would later finish third in the Order of Merit and therefore qualify for the 2012 PTC Finals.[30] His fine form continued into the UK Championship in York, where he beat Tom Ford, Graeme Dott and Ding Junhui en route to his first semi-final in the event.[31] He played Judd Trump and lost in an extremely tight encounter, 7–9, with there never being more than 2 frames between the players throughout the match.[32]

Robertson won the 2012 Masters by defeating Shaun Murphy 10–6 in the final. He beat Mark Allen and Mark Williams in the opening two rounds, before facing Trump in the semi-finals for the second successive major tournament.[33] He exacted revenge for his defeat in York a month earlier by winning 6–3 and said after the match that he had been spurred on by fans cheering when Trump fluked shots.[34] Such was Robertson's feeling that he lacked support from the local crowd, he offered to buy a pint of beer for anyone attending his matches in an Australian hat or shirt,[35] but only one person heeded this call in his semi-final match against Mark Williams. In his first Masters final he opened up a 5–3 lead over Murphy in the first session and, although he lost the first frame upon the resumption of play, won four frames in a row to stand on the edge of the title. Despite a brief fightback from the Englishman, Robertson secured the frame he needed with a break of 70 to become the fourth man from outside the United Kingdom to win the event.[36]

Robertson did not advance beyond the second round in any of his next three ranking events and then saw his run of televised finals without defeat finally come to an end when he was beaten 4–0 by Stephen Lee in the PTC Finals.[37][38] He lost in the quarter-finals of the China Open 3–5 to Peter Ebdon, before drawing 1997 champion Ken Doherty in the first round of the World Championship.[37] Robertson won the match 10–4 and then beat qualifier David Gilbert 13–9 to set up a quarter-final clash with Ronnie O'Sullivan.[39] Robertson was 5–3 ahead after the first session, but his opponent produced a match defining run of six frames in a row and went on to win 13–10.[40] Robertson finished the season ranked world number 7.[41]

2012/2013
Robertson began the season poorly once more as he lost in the first round of the Wuxi Classic and the second round of the Australian Goldfields Open and the Shanghai Masters.[42] He returned to form at the minor-ranking Gdynia Open in Poland by defeating Jamie Burnett 4–3 in the final.[43] At the inaugural International Championship in Chengdu, China, Robertson saw off Ryan Day, Matthew Stevens, Lü Haotian and Shaun Murphy 9–5 in the semi-finals to reach the final.[42] There he led Judd Trump 8–6 but lost four consecutive frames to succumb to an 8–10 defeat.[44] He enjoyed a comfortable passage into the quarter-finals of the UK Championship with 6–1 and 6–2 wins over Tom Ford and Barry Hawkins respectively to face Mark Selby.[42] Robertson squandered a 4–0 lead to lose 4–6 in a match which finished after midnight.[45]

Robertson started 2013 by attempting to defend his Masters title. He produced a comeback in the first round against Ding Junhui by taking the final three frames in a 6–5 triumph, shouting "You beauty!" when he potted the clinching red.[46] Another deciding frame followed in the next round against Mark Allen, with Robertson making a 105 break in it to progress to the semi-finals and a more comfortable 6–2 win against Shaun Murphy.[47] Robertson won three frames from 3–8 down to Mark Selby in the final, before Selby held off the fightback by taking the two frames he required to win 10–6.[48] Robertson was beaten in the semi-finals of both the German Masters (2–6 to Ali Carter) and the World Open (5–6 to Matthew Stevens).[42] Robertson's victory in the Gdynia Open earlier in the season helped him finish fifth on the PTC Order of Merit to qualify for the Finals.[49] Wins over Jamie Burnett, Barry Hawkins, Xiao Guodong and Tom Ford saw him reach the final.[42] He faced Ding and from 3–0 ahead went on to lose 3–4 meaning Robertson who won his first six ranking finals had now lost his last three.[50]

Robertson returned to winning ways at the China Open by winning his seventh career ranking event. He advanced to final by defeating Jimmy Robertson 5–0, Mark Allen 5–1, Marcus Campbell 5–2 and Stephen Maguire 6–5 (after fighting back from 2–4 down).[42][51] He exacted revenge over Mark Selby for his 10–6 loss in the final of the Masters in January by beating the Englishman by the same scoreline, moving to world number two in the process.[52] Despite therefore appearing to be in top form for the World Championship he lost to Robert Milkins 8–10 in the first round, saying afterwards that he should have gone out to win the match rather than getting too involved in safety.[53] Robertson finished the season ranked world number two for the second time in his career.[54]

2013/2014
In May 2013, Robertson made the second official maximum break of his career in the Wuxi Classic qualifiers against Mohamed Khairy.[55] In the main stage of the tournament, he defeated John Higgins 10–7 in the final to secure his eighth ranking event title. He came from 2–5 down against Higgins to lead 8–5 before withstanding a fightback to complete the victory and ensure his second consecutive ranking event win in China.[56] In his home tournament, the Australian Goldfields Open, he made it past the second round for the first time in the three stagings of the event,[57] before continuing his run by beating Joe Perry 5–2 in the quarter-finals and Mark Selby 6–3 in the semis.[58] He would have become the first man since Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2003 to win back to back ranking events in the same season, but he lost 6–9 to Hong Kong's Marco Fu in the final.[59] On 8 December 2013, Robertson beat Mark Selby 10–7 in the final of the UK Championship, becoming the first overseas player to win all Triple Crown events
In January 2014, during the Championship League, Robertson reached 63 century breaks in a single professional season, breaking the previous record of 61 centuries held by Judd Trump.[63] By early February, Robertson had reached 78 centuries, a feat that Ronnie O'Sullivan called "probably the most phenomenal scoring in the history of the game."[64] In February, he made his 88th century of the season while playing Mark Williams in the last 32 of the Welsh Open, but went on to lose 4–3.[65] At the World Open, he extended his season total to 92 centuries, but lost 5–4 on a re-spotted black against Marco Fu in the last 32.[66] At the China Open he won a trio of deciding frames before beating Graeme Dott and Ali Carter to reach the final, where he lost 10–5 to Ding Junhui.[58][67] He added one more century break during the event and extended the total to 99 in his first two World Championship matches. Robertson also missed a black on a break of 94 that would have seen him reach the 100 milestone during his win over Mark Allen.[68] However, in the 22nd frame of his quarter-final clash against Judd Trump, Robertson made his 100th century break of the season, which also levelled the scores at 11–11. Robertson went on to win the match 13–11 (having trailed 6–2 and 11–8) to set up a semi-final against Mark Selby.[69][70] Selby, the eventual champion, defeated Robertson 17–15 in a high-quality match that saw Robertson make three more century breaks to end his tally for the season at 103.[71] He ended the campaign as the world number three.[72]

2014/2015
Robertson beat Shaun Murphy on the final black in the quarter-finals of the 2014 Wuxi Classic to win 5–4 and then beat Barry Hawkins 6–3 to reach the opening ranking event final of the 2014/2015 season.[73][74] He played friend and practice partner Joe Perry and from 3–0 behind rallied to lead 8–6, before Perry won three frames in a row to be one away from the title. Robertson then produced breaks of 87 and 78 to win the title 10–9 and paid tribute to Perry's influence on his own career after the match.[75] A week later he comfortably won through to the final of his home event, the Australian Goldfields Open, without any of his opponents taking more than two frames off him.[76] Robertson was beaten in the final of the event for the second year in a row, this time 9–5 against Judd Trump, but reclaimed the world number one spot afterwards.[77] He then had early exits at the Shanghai Masters and International Championship and was knocked out at the semi-final stage of the Champion of Champions 6–4 by Trump.[76]

Robertson trailed Graeme Dott 5–0 in the fourth round of the UK Championship, but then made five breaks above 50 which included two centuries to draw level, before falling short of a big comeback as Dott took the final frame to win 6–5.[78] He produced his best snooker to reach the final of the Masters by defeating Ali Carter 6–1 in the quarter-finals and Ronnie O'Sullivan 6–1 in the semis.[79] The latter victory marked the first time O'Sullivan had been eliminated at that stage of the event after 10 prior wins and also ended a run of 15 consecutive wins in all competitions.[80] However, in the final Robertson suffered the heaviest defeat in the Masters since 1988 as Shaun Murphy thrashed him 10–2.[81] He did not lose a frame in reaching the quarter-finals of the German Masters, but Stephen Maguire got the two snookers he required in the deciding frame when Robertson accidentally potted the black and went on to clear the table to win 5–4.[82] Robertson was forced to concede the fifth frame of his fourth round match with Gary Wilson at the Welsh Open when he failed to hit a red three times in a row and lost the next frame to exit the tournament.[83] Robertson won his only European Tour event this year at the Gdynia Open by beating Mark Williams 4–0, meaning he has now claimed three titles in Poland during his career
Robertson enjoyed comfortable 10–2 and 13–5 wins over Jamie Jones and Ali Carter to face Barry Hawkins in the quarter-finals of the World Championship. It was an extremely high quality encounter as both players compiled four centuries to match a Crucible record in a best of 25 frame match, but Robertson would lose 13–12.[85] He made 11 centuries in the event which included a 143 in the first round, a 145 in the second and 141 and 142 breaks in the final session of his match with Hawkins. Despite this Robertson, who had won four ranking titles since his world title in 2010, stated that he believed he had underachieved in his career.[86]

2015/2016
Robertson exited in round one of the first two ranking events in the 2015/2016 season and 6–4 to Mark Selby in the quarter-finals of the International Championship.[87] He then claimed his first major title in over 12 months by beating Mark Allen 10–5 in the final of the Champion of Champions.[88] Thepchaiya Un-Nooh missed the final black for a 147 in their third round UK Championship match, before Robertson made a 145 break in the next frame and went on to win 6–2.[89] He saw off Stephen Maguire 6–1 and John Higgins 6–5 and then thrashed Mark Selby 6–0.[90] Robertson became the first player to make a 147 break in a Triple Crown final in the sixth frame of his match with Liang Wenbo. It was also the first final in the event not to feature a player from the United Kingdom and Robertson would capture the title for the second time in three years with a 10–5 win.[91] Robertson and Judd Trump set a record of six centuries in a best-of-11 frame match (four from Trump and two from Robertson) in the second round of the Masters with Trump progressing 6–5. Robertson proclaimed the match as the greatest ever at the Masters.[92] Robertson was on the receiving end of a 147 break during his quarter-final match with Ding Junhui in the Welsh Open but the Australian prevailed 5–2.[93] He then overcame Mark Allen 6–4 in the semi-finals to set up a final with Ronnie O'Sullivan.[94] Despite leading 5–2, Robertson lost 9–5 as O'Sullivan produced a comeback by winning 7 frames in a row.[95] Following this he ended the season with three first round defeats.[87]

2016/2017
At the Riga Masters, Robertson did not lose more than one frame in any match as he reached the final. He secured his 12th ranking title with a 5–2 win over Michael Holt.[96] Robertson reached the semi-finals of the World Open, but lost 6–2 to Joe Perry.[97] He also played in the semi-finals of the European Masters where he was defeated 6–0 by Ronnie O'Sullivan and lost 6–3 to Peter Lines in the first round of the UK Championship.[98][99] He was beaten 6–3 by O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals of the Masters and was also knocked out at the same stage of the World Grand Prix, Gibraltar Open and Players Championship.[100] After losing 13–11 to Marco Fu in the second round of the World Championship in a performance he described as garbage, Robertson said that next season he would be playing with more passion and aggression to improve his game and make it more interesting for the viewing public
Robertson started the season at the 2018 Riga Masters, winning the event for the second time in three years by defeating Stuart Carrington in the semi-final and then Jack Lisowski 5–2 in the final.[102] Robertson also reached the final at the 2018 International Championship, but lost against Mark Allen 5–10.

He later won the Welsh Open winning 9–7 over Stuart Bingham, then Robertson became runner-up in the Players Championship and Tour Championship to Ronnie O'Sullivan. Neil also reached the semi-final of the Masters losing to eventual winner Judd Trump 6–3.

Robertson won the China Open after defeating Lisowski 11–4 in the final. Robertson ended his season at the World Snooker Championship. He defeated Michael Georgiou 10-1, before defeating Shaun Murphy 13-6 in the second round. Robertson played John Higgins in the quarter-finals, where he lost 10-13.

Personal life
Robertson was born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, but is now based in Cambridge, England.[103] He has previously practised at Willie Thorne's snooker club in Leicester[104] and Cambridge Snooker Centre, but is now based at WT's Snooker and Sporting Club in Cambridge.

Robertson has a son, Alexander, with his Norwegian fiancé, Mille Fjelldal,[105] whom he met in 2008. Mille had been due to give birth to Alexander while Robertson was playing in the World Championship final,[106] but he was not born until eight days later, on 12 May 2010.[107] On 17 March 2019, the couple welcomed their second child, daughter Penelope.[108] Robertson has been a vegan since 2014.[109] He is conscious that some of his clothes, including his snooker shoes, are not completely made of vegan materials.[110]

Robertson is friends with former England footballer John Terry.[111]

In June 2016, he became ambassador of electronic snooker simulator app Snooker Live Pro.[112] He was an avid gamer but gave up the hobby in April 2017, believing he was spending too much time playing games and it was affecting his snooker form.

تيموثي شالاماي

تيموثي شالاماي (بالإنجليزية: Timothée Chalamet) مواليد 27 ديسمبر 1995 في مانهاتن، نيويورك، الولايات المتحدة، هو ممثل أمريكي بدأ مسيرته الفنية سنة 2008. درس في جامعة كولومبيا وجامعة نيويورك
نشأته
نشأ في عائلة فنية ، ظهر في الإعلانات التجارية ومسرح مسرح نيويورك، وحضر المدرسة العليا للموسيقى والفنون والفنون المسرحية، حيث كان زميله في الصف الممثل أنسيل إلغورت (حصل الاثنان لاحقاً على أول ترشيح لهم ضمن جائزة غولدن غلوب في العام 2017). ثم التحق تيموثي بجامعة كولومبيا. والدته، من نيويورك، وهي من أصل يهودي روسي ويهودي نمساوي، أمّا والده، فهو من نيم الفرنسية، ويعود لأصل فرنسي وإنجليزي، وهو شقيق الممثلة بولين شالاميت، وابن أخ المخرج رودمان فليندر.

الأعمال
أفلام
بين النجوم (2014) (بدور: توم كوبر في شبابه)
حب عائلة كوبر (2015) (بدور: تشارلي كوبر)
آنسة ستيفنز (2016)
نادني باسمك (2017) (بدور:إليو)
مسلسلات
أرض الوطن (2012) (بدور: فين والدن)

Timothee Chalamet

Timothée Hal Chalamet[a] (born December 27, 1995) is an American actor. He began his acting career in short films, before appearing in the television drama series Homeland in 2012. Two years later, he made his feature film debut in the drama Men, Women & Children and subsequently appeared in Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film Interstellar.

In 2017, Chalamet gained wider recognition for his portrayal of Elio Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's romantic drama Call Me by Your Name, after which he appeared in the coming-of-age films Hot Summer Nights and Lady Bird as well as the western Hostiles. His performance in Call Me by Your Name earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, making him the third-youngest nominee in the category. He then portrayed a drug-addicted teenager in the drama Beautiful Boy (2018), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2019, Chalamet starred as King Henry V and Theodore "Laurie" Laurence in the period dramas The King and Little Women, respectively.

On stage, Chalamet has starred in John Patrick Shanley's autobiographical play Prodigal Son in 2016, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award and won a Lucille Lortel Award.
Chalamet was born in New York City's Manhattan borough and grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.[5][6] His parents are Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and former Broadway dancer, and Marc Chalamet, an editor for UNICEF.[6][7] His mother, a third-generation New Yorker, is Jewish (from a family of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent). His father is French, from Nîmes, and is from a Protestant background.[7][8][9][10][11] Chalamet's older sister, Pauline (born 1992), is an actress and lives in Paris.[6] Chalamet's maternal uncle is filmmaker Rodman Flender, his maternal aunt is television producer and writer Amy Lippman, his maternal grandfather was screenwriter Harold Flender, and his maternal grandmother, Enid Flender (née Rodman), is a former Broadway dancer
Chalamet is fluent in English and French.[13] He holds dual citizenship in the United States and France.[14] Growing up, Chalamet spent summers in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon,[15] a small French village two hours away from Lyon, at the home of his paternal grandparents. His paternal grandmother, who had moved to France, was originally Canadian.[16] Chalamet stated that his time in France led to cross-cultural identity issues.[17] "Once I was there, I became the French version of myself," he told La Presse. "I was completely imbued with the culture, and I even dreamed in French."[18] His childhood dream was to become a professional soccer player, "I was a coach at a soccer camp in France. I coached six to ten-year-olds when I was around thirteen."[15]

Chalamet attended PS 87 William T. Sherman School for elementary school, and later the selective Delta program at MS 54 Booker T. Washington Middle School, which he described as a "miserable three years" due to the lack of a creative outlet within the school's academically rigorous environment.[8] His acceptance into Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts was a turning point in his appreciation for acting. He stated, "I had some excellent teachers and really fell in love with it. I saw that it could be and should be treated as a craft".[19] Harry Shifman, his sophomore year drama teacher at LaGuardia,[20] was so impressed by his audition that he insisted on Chalamet's acceptance into the school even though he had been rejected in the interview, saying "I gave him the highest score I've ever given a kid auditioning."[21] He graduated in 2013, and starred in school musicals as Emcee in Cabaret and Oscar Lindquist in Sweet Charity.[22][23] He is also a YoungArts alumnus.[24]

After high school, Chalamet attended Columbia University for one year, majoring in cultural anthropology.[15][25] He later transferred to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study to pursue his acting career more freely,[26] having found it difficult to assimilate to Columbia directly after filming Interstellar.[27] Upon leaving Columbia, Chalamet moved to Concourse, Bronx.[28][6]

2008–2016: Early roles
As a child, Chalamet appeared in several commercials and acted in two horror short films like Sweet Tooth and Clown before making his television debut on an episode of the long-running police procedural series Law & Order (2009), playing a murder victim.[15] He followed this with a minor role in the television film Loving Leah (2009). In 2011, he made his stage debut in the Off-Broadway play The Talls, a coming-of-age comedy set in the 1970s, in which he played a sexually curious 12 year-old Nicholas. The chief theatre critic of New York Daily News wrote "Chalamet hilariously captures a tween's awakening curiosities about sex."[29][30] In 2012, he had recurring roles in the drama series Royal Pains and in the critically acclaimed spy-thriller series Homeland, in which he played Finn Walden, the rebellious son of the Vice President. Along with the rest of the cast, Chalamet was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
In 2014, he made his feature film debut in a minor role in Jason Reitman's critically-panned Men, Women & Children.[32] Later that year, he played the role of Tom Cooper, the son of Matthew McConaughey's character, in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.[33] The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the cast's performances, and grossed over $675 million worldwide.[34][35][36] Also in 2014, Chalamet played the younger version of the co-lead role in Worst Friends, a comedy which had a limited theatrical release and received positive reviews.[37] In 2015, Chalamet co-starred in Andrew Droz Palermo's fantasy-thriller One & Two, playing the role of Zac, a son who along with his sister, begins to explore unusual abilities and dark family secrets when their mother falls ill. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it received mainly mixed reviews, before its limited theatrical release.[38][39][40] His next role was playing the teenage version of James Franco's character, Stephen Elliott, in Pamela Romanowsky's The Adderall Diaries.[41] In his final role of 2015, Chalamet played Charlie Cooper, the sullen grandson of Diane Keaton and John Goodman's characters in the Christmas comedy Love the Coopers, which received negative reviews.[42]

Chalamet noted a period of time after Interstellar —a role he imagined would have served as a career breakout—[6] in which his auditions were resoundingly unsuccessful, including such works as The Neon Demon, The Theory of Everything, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and White Boy Rick.[28]

In February 2016, he starred as Jim Quinn in the autobiographical play Prodigal Son at Manhattan Theatre Club. Handpicked by its playwright and director John Patrick Shanley and producer Scott Rudin, Chalamet portrayed a younger Shanley, a misfit Bronx kid in a prestigious New Hampshire prep school set in 1963.[43] He received rave reviews for his performance and was nominated for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play.[44][45][46][47] Chalamet also co-starred opposite Lily Rabe in Julia Hart's Miss Stevens as the troubled student Billy. Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "He is compelling even when he's just watching silently and reacting to the other characters. When he has to explode with rage or manic energy, he's startling. And in the drama competition, his reading of a climactic speech from Death of a Salesman suggests that this young actor has a bright future in many different media. —I don't know if I've ever seen a better performance of that speech.—"[48] Stephen Holden of The New York Times compared him to James Dean.[49]

2017–present: Breakthrough

After being attached to the project for three years, Chalamet starred in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, based on the novel of the same name, by André Aciman.[50][51] The story revolves around a young man named Elio who, living in Italy during the 1980s, falls in love with Oliver (Armie Hammer), a university student who has come to stay with his family. In preparing for the role, Chalamet learned to speak Italian and play the guitar; he also practiced playing the piano.[27] The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival; Chalamet's performance was acclaimed.[52][53] Olly Richards of Empire wrote, "In a film in which every performance is terrific, Chalamet makes the rest look like they're acting. He alone would make the film worth watching".[54] Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "No performance this year felt as emotionally, physically and intellectually alive", and included Chalamet in the magazine's list of the best performances of the year.[55] The New York Times featured Chalamet in their list of the best actors of the year.[56] For his work in Call Me by Your Name, Chalamet won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor,[57] and received nominations for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, BAFTA Award and Academy Award, all for Best Actor.[58] He is the third-youngest person in history to be nominated at the Oscars in the Best Actor category, and the youngest since Mickey Rooney in 1939.[59][60][61][62]

In his second film of 2017, Chalamet played Daniel, a gawky teenager who gets swept up in the drug-dealing business over the course of a summer, in Elijah Bynum's directorial debut, Hot Summer Nights. It received a limited theatrical release in July 2018 and generated mixed reviews from critics, though Chalamet's performance was often highlighted.[63][64][65] Later that year, he played Kyle Scheible, a rich hipster in a band and the love interest of Saoirse Ronan's character in Lady Bird, the critically acclaimed solo directorial debut of Greta Gerwig.[66] Critics praised the ensemble cast, with Ty Burr of The Boston Globe taking particular note of Chalamet's "hilarious" performance.[67] December saw the release of Chalamet's final film of 2017, Scott Cooper's western Hostiles, in which he played soldier Philippe DeJardin, alongside Christian Bale.[17]

In 2018, Chalamet was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[68] Later that year, Chalamet portrayed Nic, a teenager addicted to methamphetamine who shares a strained relationship with his father, the journalist David Sheff (portrayed by Steve Carell), in the drama Beautiful Boy. The film is directed by Felix Van Groeningen and is based on a pair of memoirs—the elder Sheff's memoir of the same name and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff.[69] Owen Glieberman of Variety compared Chalamet's acting in Call Me by Your Name and Beautiful Boy, stating that "Nic, [whom he portrays] in his muffled millennial James Dean way, [as] skittery and self-involved" is a transformation from the "marvelous directness" he displayed in the former.[70] He received nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the SAG, Golden Globe and BAFTA award ceremonies.

The following year, Chalamet starred in Woody Allen's romantic comedy A Rainy Day in New York (2019).[72] Due to an accusation of sexual assault against Allen, Chalamet donated his salary to the charities Time's Up, LGBT Center of New York, and RAINN.[73][74][75] He next portrayed Henry V of England, a young prince who unwittingly ascends the English Throne, in David Michôd's Netflix period drama The King, based on several plays from Shakespeare's Henriad.[76][77] Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote, "Chalamet does robust work, straightening his lanky posture as he goes, rising up into the role like a man ascendant".[78] In his third film release of 2019, Chalamet portrayed Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, a lovestruck teenager, in Little Women, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. Marking his second collaboration with Gerwig and Ronan,[79] the film received positive reviews from critics,[80] two of whom—Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post—also praised Chalamet's performance; with Travers noting that Chalamet portrays the role with "innate charm and poignant vulnerability," while Hornaday highlighted Chalamet's "languidly graceful" performance and its "playful physicality."[81][82]

Upcoming projects

As of January 2020, Chalamet has at least four upcoming projects. He will star as the main character Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of the science fiction novel Dune,[83][84] and in Wes Anderson's ensemble drama The French Dispatch, which will be his third appearance with Ronan.[b][85][86] Chalamet will make his West End theatre debut in April 2020, in Amy Herzog's play 4000 Miles, co-starring Eileen Atkins.[87] He will also portray singer Bob Dylan in a biopic directed by James Mangold.