CAREER HIGHLIGHT(S):
One of Screen International’s Arab Stars of Tomorrow (2017) and Toronto International Film Festival's 2018 Rising Stars Programme. He was nominated for Best Lead Actor in AACTA Awards for the Australian film THE FURNACE (2020), which world premiered at the Venice Festival and earned him praise in the Screen Daily review for his "eye-catching” performance." He previously starred in Mohamed Diab’s CLASH which opened Un Certain Regard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and in SHEIKH JACKSON which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. Also, GQ Middle East awarded him the Breakthrough Actor award in 2020.

TWELVE-MONTH HIGHLIGHT(S):
Malek was featured alongside an all-star cast in Marwan Hamed’s box office smash KIRA & EL GEN and followed up with a co-starring role in Netflix’s THE SWIMMERS, which opened the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. He finished shooting on the BBC series BOILING POINT alongside four times BAFTA nominee, Stephan Graham.