Rami Malek

At 43 years old, Rami Malek has this physical status:

Career

Malek wanted to attend grad school for theater after college; with college debt increasing, he moved to New York, where he shared a one-bedroom Lower East Side apartment with friends who were also in the theater community. His circle of friends included writers and producers, many of whom would come together to create the Slant Theatre Project, and they would perform their own plays around the area. Malek met casting director Mali Finn, who advised him to stay and look for jobs in Hollywood while visiting his family in Los Angeles. He began working at a Hollywood restaurant where he made ends meet after returning to his parents. He made falafel and shawarma sandwiches. Despite returning his resume to film companies, he found it impossible to work as an actor, resulting in bouts of depression and a loss of hope. Rather than opting for a career in acting, he considered getting a real estate license rather than going for an acting career.

Malek finally received a call from casting director Mara Casey after a year and a half. She wanted to talk to his agent. When she revealed that he did not have one, she told him to get one first. Malek suggested they meet anyway after a pleasant chat. He agreed, and the interview culminated in him playing his first role in Gilmore Girls, his first role; the episode in which he appeared in first aired in January 2004. He appeared in Johnny Boy at the 130-seat Falcon Theatre in Burbank, California, and later in the production Shoes opposite Kelli Giddish with the Slant Theatre Project in New York City. He also voiced "additional characters" for Halo 2, for which he was uncredited. He received his Screen Actor Guild card in 2005 for his role in two episodes of Steven Bochco's Over There. Later this year, he appeared on Medium in an episode of Medium and was cast in the recurring role of Kenny on the Fox comedy series The War at Home. GLAAD gave Kenny's "coming out" article an award. Pharaoh Ahkmenrah made his debut in 2006 as Pharaoh Ahkmenrah in the Museum's comedy Night. In the sequels Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum (2014), he reprised his role. Jamie in Keith Bunin's The Credeaux Canvas at the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles in the spring of 2007.

On the eighth season of Fox series 24's 'The suicide bomber Marcos Al-Zacar' appeared on television in 2010. He ordered his agent not to accept any role that portrays Arabs or Middle Easterners in a "poor image." He received critical praise for his portrayal of Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton in the Emmy Award-winning HBO World War II mini-series The Pacific later this year. After the intensity of filming The Pacific, he decided to leave Hollywood and lived briefly in Argentina, but he has "since found better ways of coping." Malek's performance was praised by executive producer Tom Hanks during the filming of The Pacific. In the feature film Larry Crowne, Hanks would later portray him as college student Steve Dibiasi.

Malek obtained supporting roles in a number of major films thanks to these opportunities. Benjamin Benjamin, the "Egyptian coven" vampire, was cast in The Twilight Saga: Part 2 in August 2010. In the indie film Short Term 12, opposite Brie Larson, he played Nate, a new employee at a charity for youths. During this period, the 2012 remake of the South Korean film Oldboy was cut significantly, and Dancing Blood of Jesus, a crowdfunded film, he appeared in two Spike Lee films. The two guys have remained colleagues for as long as they were together. He appeared in Battleship, Oscar-nominated The Master, and Ain't Them Bodies Saints. On August 25, 2015, Josh, one of the main characters in Until Dawn, a horror game that was released on PlayStation 4, appeared as Josh. He lent his voice and likeness to the character and was completely motion-captured for the game.

Sam Esmail had auditioned over 100 people to play Elliot Alderson, a mentally ill computer hacker), for a performance he was writing. Since struggling to perform the role, he considered re-writing the script entirely. However, Esmail said, "It opened my eyes to who Elliot really was" after witnessing Malek's audition in late summer 2014. Mr. Sullivan, the resultant psychological thriller. On the USA Network, Robot premiered on June 24, 2015, with Malek in the lead role. He talked to a psychologist in order to portray the character, who suffers from mental and social disorders. Critics reacted angrily, with USA Today naming it his "breakout success" on the role. Malek's "magnetic appearance" was the "right reason" to watch the movie, according to Entertainment Weekly. Malek "anchored the story" and that his "spin" on the anti-hero trope "promises a new direction for prestige television," Backstage remarked that "spin" on the anti-hero trope "promises a new direction for prestige television. His appearances earned him nominations for the Dorian Award, Satellite Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. He was named Best Actor in a Drama Series by the Critics' Choice Television Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He was the first non-white actor to win an Emmy since 1998. The show came to an end in December 2019, with Malek earning his third Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama.

Despite being one of 3000 actors to appear in Solo: A Star Wars Story, Malek appeared in Buster's Mal Heart, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016, to rave reviews. Malek plays a man who leads two lives, one as Jonah and another as Buster. Mr. Hancock's success with him in the role pretended. "I had no idea how massive and adored he would be," robot creator Sarah Adina Smith said. "Fans of Mr. Freddie," John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote about the actor's appearance. In the least by this vehicle for Emmy Award-winning series actor Rami Malek, which both fits in with Mr. Robot, he will not be dissatisfied. In his first film role, the robot's delusion-prone nihilation and allows the charismatic actor to stretch out." Louis Dega appeared in Papillon, a 1973 film starring Charlie Hunnam, and malek next appeared as Louis Dega. It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited box office release in August 2018. Malek appeared in BoJack Horseman (season 4), portraying Flip McVicker, a writer who does not believe in email.

In the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Malek portrayed Freddie Mercury in 2018. On October 23, 2018, the film premiered in London and became a big box office hit, grossing over $900 million worldwide on a $50 million production budget. It was the highest-grossing film of all time, and the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time. Despite mixed reviews overall, Malek's performance was lauded by critics. He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in the film. Malek came to London, where he worked with a dialect coach and a movement coach, as well as taking piano and singing lessons. He and his movement coach, Polly Bennett, watched Mercury videos for four hours each day. To get the best show, he had to watch the 1985 Live Aid concert video on YouTube at least 1,500 times. He also had to get used to speaking and singing with a pair of false teeth that mimicked Mercury's overbite. Malek's performance was so accurate that "we often forgot he was Rami," Queen's guitarist Brian May said. Malek considers that his Mercury role was the most important of his career, according to the narrator:

Malek will produce and appear in an eight-episode podcast called Blackout in December 2018. Scott Conroy, the creator of the podcast, a thriller about a small-town radio DJ who must "fight to save his family and the community from a coordinated attack that shatters the power grid and upends modern life." On March 19, 2019, the podcast debuted with two episodes, with six new episodes premiering weekly. It was named for Best Scripted Podcast on the 2020 Webby Awards (Fiction). In Dolittle, starring Robert Downey Jr., Malek also sang Chee-Chee the gorilla; the film was released in 2018 and released in January 2020. Malek appeared on the crime thriller The Little Things in May 2019, opposite Denzel Washington and Jared Leto. On January 29, 2021, the film was released. Malek played the main villain in James Bond's "No Time to Die" on April 25, 2019, as the main villain; he plays the "supervillain" Lyutsifer Safin. Principal photography on the film began in April 2019 and ended in October. Its initial launch date was set in April 2020, but the COVID-1923-related delays delayed it to October 2021. Malek hosted Saturday Night Live in October 2021 to promote the film's debut.

In David O. Russell's Amsterdam, Malek appears as part of an all-star ensemble cast; the film was released in early 2021 and will be released in November 2022. Malek was announced in December 2021 as having appeared in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer's ensemble cast.

Malek was directing a film for Universal Pictures as a child in 2018. Mr. Sam Esmail, based on Tamer Elnoury and Kevin Maurer's memoir American Radical, focuses on an undercover Muslim FBI agent working for the department after 9/11. Nazrin Choudhury was chosen to write the screenplay. Esmail said in April 2022 that the initiative was not going to be completed, but that he and Malek were determined to work on something else, and that they had already discussed another film project. Malek said he is working on a film, one he plans to write, produce, and direct himself on a modest budget, since it is a tale he believes "might get by studios looking for something a bit more general and commercial."

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