Rami Malek
American actor · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1981 · age 45 · also Egypt
He won an Oscar for becoming Freddie Mercury, then an Emmy for playing a paranoid hacker - two performances that demanded total physical and psychological transformation. The Academy Award made him the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win Best Actor.
Rami Malek is read about 7,212 times a day, in 75 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
NurembergFilm, Douglas Kelley2023
OppenheimerFilm, David Hill2021
Being James BondFilm2020
DolittleFilm, Chee-Chee (voice)2019Academy Award for Best ActorAwardBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaAwardSatellite Award for Best Actor - Motion PictureAwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleAward, 2019
The Kelly Clarkson ShowSeries, 2019
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live AidFilm, 20192018
Bohemian RhapsodyFilm, Freddie Mercury2016“Please tell me you're seeing this, too.”In their wordsIn his 2016 acceptance speech for his Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The line comes from the program Mr. Robot.Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama SeriesAwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesAward
Mr. Robot_dec0d3d.docFilm, 20162015
Da Sweet Blood of JesusFilm, Seneschal Higginbottom2014
BoJack HorsemanSeries, Flip McVicker / Jose Guerrero (voice)
Need for SpeedFilm, 2014Finn2013
Ain't Them Bodies SaintsFilm, Will2012
AlcatrazSeries, Webb Porter2011
Larry CrowneFilm, Steve Dibiasi2009
Night at the Museum: Battle of the SmithsonianFilm, Ahkmenrah2007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries2006
Night at the MuseumFilm, Ahkmenrah2005
MediumSeries, Timothy Kercher2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series2000
Gilmore GirlsSeries, Andy1988
LIVE with Kelly and MarkSeries1981Born12 May 1981People around Rami
Close ties
Chris Columbus Produced Night at the Museum (2006)
Shawn Levy Directed Night at the Museum (2007)
Michael Barnathan Produced Night at the Museum (2007)
Stephenie Meyer Produced The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Spike Lee Directed Oldboy and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Paul Thomas Anderson Produced The Master (2013)
Billy Burke Also in 24 and Gilmore Girls
Bill Condon Directed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Craig Robinson Rami produced Mr. Robot- Brad Turner Directed Day 8: 1:00 am - 2:00 am
Robin Williams Also in Night at the Museum (2006)
Ben Stiller Also in Night at the Museum (2006)
Owen Wilson Also in Night at the Museum (2007)
Ricky Gervais Also in Night at the Museum (2006)
Michael Sheen Also in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Steve Coogan Also in Night at the Museum (2006)
Brad Garrett Also in Night at the Museum (2006)
Grace Gummer Rami produced Mr. Robot
Sandrine Holt Rami produced Mr. Robot, also in 24
Patrick Gallagher Also in Night at the Museum (2006)
Mizuo Peck Also in Night at the Museum (2006)- Omar Metwally Rami produced Mr. Robot
Christopher Heyerdahl Also in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Casey LaBow Also in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Known for
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Oppenheimer 2023
Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
Being James Bond 2021
Short Term 12 2013
Nuremberg 2025
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 37
67 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 7
Malek in 2007
Malek at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con
Malek and Christian Slater (left) speaking as part of the Mr. Robot panel during the 2015 PaleyFest
Joe Mazzello (left), Malek, and Gwilym Lee (right) promoting Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018
Malek at the 2016 South by Southwest
Malek at the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards red carpetIn their own words 7
, My brother was like, We're going to have to change the locks and put bars on the windows!
Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating.
I really wanted Elliot's clothes to feel like it was a bit of an urban combat uniform. We needed the wardrobe to reflect his desire to disappear from the world.
Awards
About this person
Born in Torrance, California, to Egyptian immigrant parents of Coptic background, Malek studied theater and worked in New York plays before landing supporting turns - a Fox sitcom, the HBO miniseries The Pacific, a Twilight sequel, the Night at Museum trilogy. The USA Network series Mr. Robot (2015-2019) gave him Elliot Alderson, a computer hacker whose fractured interior life earned Malek a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Then came Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018: his Freddie Mercury won the Academy Award and made him the first actor of Egyptian descent to take Best Actor. Since then he's played a Bond villain in No Time to Die, a figure in Nolan's Oppenheimer, and leads in The Little Things, The Amateur, and Nuremberg - a run that shows range but hasn't yet matched the heat of that first peak.
