diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5a35fdd2a6..eae507f32b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Fixed an issue wrt unnecessary usage of habana mixed precision package for fp32 types ([#13028](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/13028))
 
 
+- Fixed issue where the CLI could not pass a `Profiler` to the `Trainer` ([#13084](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/13084))
+
+
 -
 
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
index 71cb47b139..d9dc550f10 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ from pytorch_lightning.plugins import (
 from pytorch_lightning.plugins.environments.slurm_environment import SLURMEnvironment
 from pytorch_lightning.profiler import (
     AdvancedProfiler,
-    BaseProfiler,
     PassThroughProfiler,
     Profiler,
     PyTorchProfiler,
@@ -171,7 +170,7 @@ class Trainer(
         weights_save_path: Optional[str] = None,  # TODO: Remove in 1.8
         num_sanity_val_steps: int = 2,
         resume_from_checkpoint: Optional[Union[Path, str]] = None,
-        profiler: Optional[Union[BaseProfiler, str]] = None,
+        profiler: Optional[Union[Profiler, str]] = None,
         benchmark: Optional[bool] = None,
         deterministic: Union[bool, _LITERAL_WARN] = False,
         reload_dataloaders_every_n_epochs: int = 0,