Rami Said Malek is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which he won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win in that category.
Malek in 2015
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
Mr. Robot is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression and dissociative identity disorder. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists called "fsociety". The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of E Corp, the largest conglomerate in the world.
Series stars Christian Slater (left) and Rami Malek (right) speaking as part of the Mr. Robot panel during the 2015 PaleyFest. Slater has also served as a producer since the first season, while Malek began producing in season 3.
Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, and others accepting the 2016 Peabody Award for Mr. Robot
