ACTOR · BORN 1981
Rami Malek
- Born
- 12 May 1981
20 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
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- #001
Rami Malek's mother and father are Egyptian. He has also said that he has "an eighth Greek" ancestry.
- #002
The Freddie Mercury teeth Rami Malek wore while filming Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) were gold-colored.
- #003
Rami Malek's identical twin, Sami, who is four minutes younger than him, is a teacher.
- #004
Rami Malek attended high school with Kirsten Dunst and was a year ahead of her there. They had a musical theater class together.
- #005
Rami Malek's sister Yasmine is an emergency medicine doctor.
- #006
Rami Malek earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.
- #007
Rami Malek attended high school with Emily, the stepsister of his Mr. Robot (2015) co-star Christian Slater, and he dated her once.
- #008
Rami Malek graduated from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (June 1999). Two of his classmates were Rachel Bilson and Taylor Fry. Kirsten Dunst graduated from the same school a year later, and Katharine McPhee graduated three years after Rami.
- #009
Rami Malek won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2019 for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
- #010
Rami Malek was raised in the Coptic Orthodox faith.
- #011
Rami Malek is the fifth Oscar-winning actor to play a villain in a James Bond film, after Christopher Walken, Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem and Christoph Waltz.
- #012
Rami Malek nearly reprised his role as Freddie Mercury in a brief role in Rocketman (2019) before the producers ultimately decided against it.
- #013
Rami Malek won the 2019 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
- #014
Rami Malek is the second actor from an Arab country to win the Oscar for Best Actor. F. Murray Abraham, who won for his role in Amadeus (1984), is the first.
- #015
While in Paris, France, Rami Malek took part in the worldwide Women's March protest.
- #016
Rami Malek grew up in Los Angeles, California.
- #017
Rami Malek was in a relationship with his Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) co-star Lucy Boynton from 2018 to 2023.
- #018
Rami Malek's Best Actor Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) was presented to him by Gary Oldman and Allison Janney (Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles).
- #019
Rami Malek is good friends with Bassam Habib.
- #020
Rami Malek was the first American actor to play James Bond's main villain since Robert Davi in Licence to Kill (1989).
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