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

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.

Rami Malek reflected on an alleged incident where he claims to have been racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department in a new profile for The Guardian.