Rami Malek

Rami Malek

Born: May 12, 1981
Age: 43
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
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Biography

Rami Malek (Arabic: رامي سعيد مالك‎‎) (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor of Egyptian heritage. He is best known for playing the lead role of Elliot Alderson in the critically acclaimed USA Network television series Mr. Robot, for which he won a Critics' Choice Award and received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Malek has also portrayed notable characters in film and television such as King Ahkmenrah in Night at the Museum trilogy, Fox comedy series The War at Home (2005-07), HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012), independent film Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) and the critically praised dramatic film Short Term 12 (2013).

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Early life

Malek was born in Los Angeles, California, to Egyptian parents. His father was a tour guide in Cairo. Malek has an identical twin brother named Sami; Rami is the older twin by four minutes. He also has an older sister. Malek attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California where he graduated in 1999 along with fellow actress Rachel Bilson. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003 from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.

Career

In 2004, Malek began his acting career with a guest-starring role on the TV series Gilmore Girls. That same year he worked voicing "additional characters" for the video game Halo 2, for which he was uncredited. 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. That same year, he appeared in an episode of Medium, and was cast as the prominent recurring role of Kenny, on the Fox comedy series The War at Home.

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). 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.

In 2010, Malek returned to television in a recurring role as the Egyptian American suicide bomber Marcos Al-Zacar on the eighth season of the Fox series 24. Later that same year, he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton on the Emmy Award-winning HBO World War II mini-series The Pacific.

During 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. In August 2010 it was announced that Malek had been cast as the Egyptian vampire Benjamin in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.

Malek plays the lead role in the critically acclaimed USA Network computer-hacker psychological drama, Mr. Robot, which premiered on June 24, 2015. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Satellite Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Dorian Awards. He won a Critic's Choice Television Award.

He appears as one of the main characters (Josh) in Until Dawn, a 2015 horror game released on the Playstation 4 on August 25. He lent his voice and was fully motion captured for the game.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Night at the Museum King Ahkmenrah
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2011 Larry Crowne Steve Dibiasi
2012 Battleship Lt. Hill
2012 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2 !The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Benjamin
2012 Master 2012 !The Master Clark
2013 Ain't Them Bodies Saints Will
2013 Short Term 12 Nate
2013 Oldboy Browning
2014 Need for Speed Finn
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb King Ahkmenrah
2014 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Seneschal Higginbottom
2017 Buster's Mal Heart TBA Post-production, leading role

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Gilmore Girls Andy Episode: "In the Clamor and the Clangor"
2005 Over There Hassan 2 episodes
2005 Medium Timothy Kercher Episode: "Time Out of Mind"
2005-2007 War at Home !The War at Home Kenny 21 episodes
2010 24 Marcos Al-Zacar Guest star, 3 episodes of season 8
2010 Pacific !The Pacific Merriell "Snafu" Shelton 6 episodes
2012 Alcatraz Webb Porter Episode: "Webb Porter"
2012 Legend of Korra !The Legend of Korra Tahno (voice) 3 episodes
2014 Believe Dr. Adam Terry Episode: "Pilot"
2015-present Mr. Robot Elliot Alderson Lead role, 10 episodes

Video Games

Year Title Voice role Notes
2004 Halo 2 Additional voices Uncredited
2014 The Legend of Korra Tahno
2015 Until Dawn Joshua "Josh" Washington

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Title Result Ref.
2016 Critics' Choice Television Award Best Actor in a Drama Series Mr. Robot Won
Golden Globe Award Best Actor - Television Series Drama Nominated
Satellite Award Best Actor - Television Series Drama Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Nominated
Dorian Awards TV Performance of the Year - Actor Nominated
"We're Wilde About You!" Rising Star Award Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]


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