Before
Rami Malek, 37, played rock star
Freddie Mercury in
Bohemian Rhapsody — even before he appeared as the morphine-shooting, hoodie-wearing Elliot on USA's Mr. Robot — he portrayed Kenny on
Fox's
The War at Home. (Reaching even further back, he played an overeager Seventh-Day Adventist on Gilmore Girls in his 2004 television debut.)
A multicamera sitcom, War at Home ran for two seasons, from 2005 to 2007, and centered on the Golds, a somewhat dysfunctional Long Island Jewish family. The Hollywood Reporter was not thrilled with what it saw when the show premiered in the time slot after
The Simpsons. "You know ...