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I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a brilliant young actor who won last year's

Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama Series and might well win this year's

too. The star of USA's massively acclaimed Mr. Robot on which he plays Elliot Alderson,

a cybersecurity specialist by day and master hacker by night who grapples with

psychological issues and drug addiction while trying to free the world from

heartless corporations. Rami Malik. The 36-year-old who was born in Los Angeles to Egyptian immigrants has been acting professionally

for the last 14 years, slowly but steadily building a name for himself.

Early career milestones included key supporting parts in Stephen Spielberg and

Tom Hanks Emmy winning HBO mini-series The Pacific. Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated film The

Master, the blockbuster fantasy flick The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn

Part 2, and the magnificent indie drama's short term 12.

And then came Mr. Robot.

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