Mayim Bialik

Mayim Chaya Bialik (, MY-əm bee-AH-lik) (born December 12, 1975) is an American actress and neuroscientist. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of NBC's Blossom. Since 2010, she has played Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler – like the actress, a neuroscientist – on CBS's The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she has been nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and won a Critic's Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. 2Early life Mayim Chaya Bialik was born on December 12, 1975, in San Diego, California, to Barry (d. 2015) and Beverly (née Winkleman) Bialik. Three of her four grandparents emigrated from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Bialik was raised as a Reform Jew, but now considers herself to be Orthodox Jewish. Her personal name, Mayim, originates in a mispronunciation of Miriam, her great-grandmother's name. It also means "Water" in Hebre