Simon Helberg

Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–present), for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and as Cosmé McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Helberg has appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv and is also known for his role as Moist in Joss Whedon's web miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008). He has further performed in films such as Old School (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and A Serious Man (2009). 2Early life Helberg was born on December 9, 1980, in Los Angeles. He is the son of actor Sandy Helberg and casting director Harriet Helberg. He was raised in Judaism, "Conservative to Reform but more Reform as time went on." Helberg attended middle and high school at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, with Jason Ritter, who later became his roommate at New York University. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained at the Atlantic Theater Company. 2Career Since the early 2000s, Helberg performed with comedian Derek Waters as the sketch comedy duo Derek & Simo