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'''Rami Said Malek''' (born May 12, 1981)<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.biography.com/.amp/people/rami-malek-9212016|title="Rami Malek's Biography "}}</ref> is an American actor.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/features/gq-middle-east-launches-with-cover-star-rami-malek|title=Rami Malek is the Leading Man the World Needs}}</ref> He won a [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series|Critics' Choice Award]] and the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series]] for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the [[USA Network]] television series ''[[Mr. Robot]]''. He also received [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama|Golden Globe Award]], [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series|Screen Actors Guild Award]] and [[TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama|TCA Award]] nominations.
'''Rami Said Malek''' (born May 12, 1981)<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.biography.com/.amp/people/rami-malek-9212016|title="Rami Malek's Biography "}}</ref> is an American actor to [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] parents.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/features/gq-middle-east-launches-with-cover-star-rami-malek|title=Rami Malek is the Leading Man the World Needs}}</ref> He won a [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series|Critics' Choice Award]] and the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series]] for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the [[USA Network]] television series ''[[Mr. Robot]]''. He also received [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama|Golden Globe Award]], [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series|Screen Actors Guild Award]] and [[TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama|TCA Award]] nominations.


Malek has acted in supporting roles for other film and television series including the [[Night at the Museum (film series)|''Night at the Museum'' trilogy]], ''[[The Pacific (miniseries)|The Pacific]]'' (2010), ''[[The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2]]'' (2012), and the dramatic film ''[[Short Term 12]]'' (2013), among others. In 2018, Malek portrayed musician [[Freddie Mercury]] in the [[Biopic|biographical drama]] ''[[Bohemian Rhapsody (film)|Bohemian Rhapsody]]'', earning critical acclaim for his performance.<ref name="obsvr">{{cite news |last1=Lamont |first1=Tom |title=Rami Malek: ‘Being offered the part of Freddie Mercury was a gun-to-the-head moment’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/14/rami-malek-being-offered-the-part-of-freddie-mercury-was-a-gun-to-the-head-moment- |accessdate=15 October 2018 |publisher=The Observer |date=14 October 2018}}</ref>
Malek has acted in supporting roles for other film and television series including the [[Night at the Museum (film series)|''Night at the Museum'' trilogy]], ''[[The Pacific (miniseries)|The Pacific]]'' (2010), ''[[The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2]]'' (2012), and the dramatic film ''[[Short Term 12]]'' (2013), among others. In 2018, Malek portrayed musician [[Freddie Mercury]] in the [[Biopic|biographical drama]] ''[[Bohemian Rhapsody (film)|Bohemian Rhapsody]]'', earning critical acclaim for his performance.<ref name="obsvr">{{cite news |last1=Lamont |first1=Tom |title=Rami Malek: ‘Being offered the part of Freddie Mercury was a gun-to-the-head moment’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/14/rami-malek-being-offered-the-part-of-freddie-mercury-was-a-gun-to-the-head-moment- |accessdate=15 October 2018 |publisher=The Observer |date=14 October 2018}}</ref>

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Rami Malek
Malek at South by Southwest 2016
Born
Rami Said Malek

(1981-05-12) May 12, 1981 (age 43)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationNotre Dame High School
Alma materUniversity of Evansville
OccupationActor
Years active2004–present

Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981)[1] is an American actor to Egyptian parents.[2] He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and TCA Award nominations.

Malek has acted in supporting roles for other film and television series including the Night at the Museum trilogy, The Pacific (2010), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012), and the dramatic film Short Term 12 (2013), among others. In 2018, Malek portrayed musician Freddie Mercury in the biographical drama Bohemian Rhapsody, earning critical acclaim for his performance.[3]

Early life

Malek was born in Los Angeles, to Egyptian immigrant parents, and is also of one-eighth Greek heritage.[4] His father was a tour guide in Cairo who later sold insurance.[5] His mother Nelly is an accountant.[6] Malek was raised in his family's Coptic Orthodox faith and grew up speaking Arabic at home until the age of four.[7][8][9] Malek has an identical twin brother named Sami who is younger by four minutes and is a teacher.[10][11] Malek's older sister, Yasmine, is a medical doctor.[12]

Malek attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, where he graduated in 1999 along with actress Rachel Bilson,[13] Kirsten Dunst also attended but was a year younger, though the two shared a musical theater class. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003 from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana, which later honored Malek with the 2017 Young Alumnus Award.[14][15]

Career

Malek at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International

2004–09: Early work

In 2004, Malek began his acting career with a guest-starring role on the TV series Gilmore Girls. That same year he voiced "additional characters" for the video game Halo 2, for which he was uncredited.[16] In 2005, he got his Screen Actors Guild card for his work on the Steven Bochco war drama Over There, in which he appeared in two episodes.[17] That same year, he appeared in an episode of Medium and was cast in the prominent recurring role of Kenny, on the Fox comedy series The War at Home.[18][19]

In 2006, Malek made his feature film debut as Pharaoh Ahkmenrah in the comedy Night at the Museum and reprised his role in the sequels Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014).[3]

In the spring of 2007, he appeared on-stage as "Jamie" in the Vitality Productions theatrical presentation of Keith Bunin's The Credeaux Canvas at the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles.[18][20]

2010–15: Breakthrough

While shooting the Night at the Museum films, Malek returned to television in 2010 in a recurring role as the suicide bomber Marcos Al-Zacar on the eighth season of the Fox series 24. Later that same year, he received critical acclaim[improper synthesis?] for his portrayal of Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton on the Emmy Award-winning HBO World War II mini-series The Pacific.[21][22][23][24][25] After the intensity of filming The Pacific, he chose to leave Hollywood and live briefly in Argentina.[26]

During the filming of The Pacific, Malek met executive producer Tom Hanks, who was impressed with his performance and would later cast him as college student Steve Dibiasi in the feature film Larry Crowne, released in July 2011.[21][22][24]

After this period, Malek acted in supporting roles in many major films. In August 2010, it was announced that Malek had been cast as the "Egyptian coven" vampire, Benjamin, in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.[27][28][29] In 2013 he played Nate, a new employee of a group home for youths, in the indie film Short Term 12, opposite Brie Larson.[30] He appeared in two Spike Lee films during this time, the 2012 remake of the South Korean film Oldboy in a part that was significantly trimmed,[31] and later in the crowdfunded Da Sweet Blood of Jesus.[32] He also had minor roles in Battleship, Oscar-nominated The Master, and Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

He appeared as Josh, one of the main characters, in Until Dawn, a 2015 horror game released on the PlayStation 4 on August 25, 2015. He lent his voice and likeness to the character and was fully motion captured for the game.[33]

2015–present: Mr. Robot and critical success

Since 2015 he has played the lead role in the USA Network computer-hacker, psychological drama Mr. Robot. His performance earned him nominations for the Dorian Award, Satellite Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as wins in the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and was the first nonwhite actor to win an Emmy for that category since 1998.[34] Speaking about being an Egyptian-American actor in a main role, Malek said, "People didn’t know where to place me with my ethnicity, and never was I ever up for leading anything. The fact that Rami Malek got to play the lead character, called Elliot Alderson, in Mr. Robot was somewhat of a coup, I think. I never saw that possibility when I was younger."[7]

Buster's Mal Heart, the first movie in which Malek plays a starring role, premiered in September 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. In it Malek plays one man with two lives, Jonah and Buster.[35] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review writing : "Fans of Mr. Robot won't be disappointed in the least by this vehicle for Emmy-winning series star Rami Malek, which both fits in with Mr. Robot's delusion-prone paranoia and lets the charismatic actor stretch out in his first feature lead."[36] In August 2016 it was announced that Malek would co-star with Charlie Hunnam as Louis Dega in a contemporary remake of the 1973 film Papillon and it premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[37][38]

In 2017 he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the push for diversity continues among its members after the criticism regarding lack of diversity of the 88th Academy Awards.[39][40]

In November 2016, it was announced that Malek would star as Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. To prepare for the role of Mercury, Malek moved to London where he had a dialect coach, a movement coach and took piano and singing lessons.[7] For four hours each day, he studied videos of Mercury with his movement coach which included watching the 1985 Live Aid concert video on YouTube at least 1,500 times to perfect the performance for the movie.[7][41] He also had to get used to singing and speaking in a set of false teeth which mimicked the singer's overbite.[7] The film premiered in London on October 23, 2018 and as of November 18, 2018, Bohemian Rhapsody had grossed $127.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $256.4 million in other territories (including $37.8 million in the UK), for a total worldwide gross of $387.9 million, against a production budget of about $52 million.[42][43][44] His performance as Freddie Mercury has received much critical acclaim including winning the Breakthrough Performance Award at the 30th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival two weeks after the movie's release.[45]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Night at the Museum Pharaoh Ahkmenrah
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2011 Larry Crowne Steve Dibiasi
2012 Battleship Lt. Hill
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Benjamin
The Master Clark
2013 Ain't Them Bodies Saints Will
Short Term 12 Nate
Oldboy Browning Deleted scenes
2014 Need for Speed Finn
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Pharaoh Ahkmenrah
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Seneschal Higginbottom
2016 Project X[46] Co-Narrator Short film
Buster's Mal Heart Jonah / Buster
2017 Papillon Louis Dega
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury
2020 The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle Chee-Chee (voice) Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Gilmore Girls Andy Episode: "In the Clamor and the Clangor"
2005 Over There Hassan 2 episodes
Medium Timothy Kercher Episode: "Time Out of Mind"
2005–2007 The War at Home Kenny Al-Bahir 21 episodes
2010 24 Marcos Al-Zacar 3 episodes
The Pacific Merriell "Snafu" Shelton 6 episodes
2012 Alcatraz Webb Porter Episode: "Webb Porter"
The Legend of Korra Tahno (voice) 3 episodes
2014 Believe Dr. Adam Terry Episode: "Pilot"
2015–present Mr. Robot Elliot Alderson Main role
Also producer (season 3)[47]
2017–2018 BoJack Horseman Flip McVicker (voice) 10 episodes

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Halo 2[48] Additional Voices Uncredited
2014 The Legend of Korra Tahno
2015 Until Dawn[49] Joshua "Josh" Washington Also likeness

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Rami Malek

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