Rami Malek is recounting his at-times complicated upbringing as an Egyptian-American growing up in Southern California.

During a recent interview, Rami Malek recalled an alleged encounter with LA police, in which the actor said he was racially profiled after a robbery.

Rami Malek recently shared an incident in which he was racially profiled and thrown against a police car in Los Angeles for a robbery he didn't commit. This was just one of many times in which he had to reconcile his Egyptian-American identity.