If Chase Infiniti Payne wasn't already on your radar fro her acting roles — Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning One Battle After Another and the haunting Handmaid's Tale prequel The Testaments — then after her show-stopping Met Gala debut, she definitely will be.
Everything you need to know about Chase Infiniti, below.
Is Chase Infiniti her real name?
Yes. Her full name is Chase Infiniti Payne.
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Her upbringing and family life
Infiniti, born on May 5, 2000, is a Taurus and a proud musical theatre graduate from Indianapolis.
With a strong background in theatre and training as a dancer, she has long been drawn to the magic of stage and screen, especially the charm of movie musicals. She openly admits her love for Disney, telling intervieweres: “I’d be lying if I said I was not obsessed with Tangled or The Princess and the Frog.”
Her passion for performing began early, auditioning for a school musical at the age of 10, a moment that set her on the path to her artistic career. In 2022, she graduated from Columbia College Chicago, further cementing her dedication to her craft.
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She campaigned for Lead Actress at the Oscars for One Battle After Another
Upon its release in 2025, the film was immediately recognised as a strong awards-season contender. When campaign representatives exclusively confirmed to Variety that Infiniti would compete in the Best Actress category at the 98th Academy Awards, the announcement came as little surprise. Despite the buzz surrounding her performance, Infiniti unfortunately did not receive a nomination. Though, the film did collectively win six Oscar awards that evening. Remarkably, the role also marked her feature film debut, where she made a striking impression as Willa Ferguson, the daughter of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Bob, a former radical.
“For me, this is the dream,” Infiniti said of the experience. “Being in an action film, doing fight choreography – you can’t script something like this. I grew up watching these kinds of movies, and now I get to live them.”
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How did she get the role?
Infiniti auditioned for Anderson four times. At first, she had almost nothing to go on – no script, no title, and only the barest outline of a character. It wasn’t until after she completed a chemistry read with DiCaprio that she finally received a script.
That audition happened on the eve of the 2023 actors’ strike. Months later, the day after the strike ended, Anderson sent her a simple text: Can you come to LA? Once there, she spent a week in mixed martial arts training under the director’s watchful eye.
One evening, as Infiniti sat in the hotel lobby, Anderson approached her casually. “So if you didn’t know,” he said, “you got the part.”
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What else has she been in?
You may recognise her as Jaden Sabich in the Apple TV+ limited series Presumed Innocent (a remake of the 1990s legal thriller). The show was the first time Infiniti acted on camera. “I got better after the second and third day,” Infiniti told Vogue in a recent interview. “But I was definitely shaking.”
More recently, she's leading the cast of the dystopian series The Testaments. Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel and set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the series once again features Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia and centres on the intertwined stories of three women living under Gilead’s regime. Infiniti portrays one of them, a character named Agnes.
Otherwise might have glimpsed her in Tyler, the Creator's Darling, I music video.
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What's she got coming up?
Infiniti is set to share the screen with Corey Mylchreest in The Julia Set, director Niki Byrne’s sophomore feature, scheduled to begin shooting in Los Angeles at the end of the month.
She's also a Louis Vuitton ambassador
As of December 2025, Chase Infiniti is a Louis Vuitton ambassador. This comes to no surprise after all the red carpet events where she was wearing custom looks from the house. She even went to her first show with them in Paris for their autumn winter 2026 show.
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She nailed her first Met Gala
The dress code for Infinit's first Met Gala was 'Fashion is Art'. And while there was some questionable choices on the carpet this year (as there always are), Infiniti nailed it with her custom Thom Browne dress.
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