Malcolm Barrett (born April 22, 1980) is an American actor best known for playing time traveler Rufus Carlin in Timeless on NBC.

Barrett was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School[1] in Manhattan in 1998 with fellow actors Telly Leung and Billy Eichner.

Barrett played Dr. Lem Hewitt on the ABC television show, Better Off Ted and was a supporting character in the Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker.

He also had a small role in the movie Larry Crowne, as a classmate of Tom Hanks' character.

From 2016 to 2018, Barrett played the main role of Rufus Carlin in the NBC series Timeless.