Ramy Youssef

Ramy Youssef (Arabic: رامي يوسف, Egyptian Arabic: [ˈɾɑːmi ˈjuːsɪf]; born March 26, 1991) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is known for his role as Ramy Hassan on the Hulu comedy series Ramy (2019–2022), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Peabody Award in 2020. He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

Ramy Youssef was born in 1991 in Queens, a borough of New York City, to Egyptian parents, and raised in Rutherford, New Jersey. Ten years after emigrating from Egypt, his father became a manager at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Youssef was raised in a Muslim household, observing Islamic holidays, and remains a practicing Muslim.

Youssef attended Rutherford High School. In high school, he and his friend Steve Way appeared on their high school television program. He went on to study political science and economics at Rutgers University, Newark, but he left before graduating to enroll at William Esper Studio to focus on acting.

Youssef speaks Arabic and English. His maternal grandfather was a French and Arabic interpreter at the United Nations.

Youssef was the 2023 Distinguished Graduate recipient awarded by Rutherford High School, the local high school he attended.

Youssef made his acting debut on the Nick at Nite sitcom See Dad Run, in which he had a main role. During the run of the show, he shadowed the writers' room, an experience he would bring to his own show in 2019.

In 2017, Youssef appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he performed his stand-up routine.

His television series Ramy debuted on Hulu on April 19, 2019, with 10 episodes. The show, in which Youssef plays the title character, tells the story of a millennial first-generation Muslim-American born to immigrant parents in the United States. Soon after its first season debuted, Hulu renewed it for a second season. He received a Golden Globe in January 2020 for this role, and was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, as both an actor and director.