Mayim Chaya Bialik was born on December 12, 1975, in San Diego, California,[3][4][5] to Beverly (née Winkleman) and Barry Bialik.[6][7][8] Her family were Jewish immigrants who lived in the Bronx, New York City.[9] Three of her four grandparents migrated from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.[10] After being raised as a Reform Jew, she described herself as Modern Orthodox Jewish in 2013.[10][11][12] Bialik became a Bat Mitzvah and has called herself a "staunch Zionist".[13][10] Her name, Mayim ("water" in Hebrew),[14] originates in a family nickname of her great-grandmother, Miriam.[15] The Hebrew-language poet Hayim Nahman Bialik was her great-great-great-granduncle.[16]
Bialik has said she did not have the grades needed for medical school.[22] She went on to study for a doctorate in neuroscience. She took a break from studies in 2005 to return to acting.[23] She returned to earn her PhD degree in neuroscience from UCLA in 2007 under Dr. James McCracken.[3][24] Her dissertation was titled "Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive, affiliative and satiety behaviors in Prader–Willi syndrome".[3][25]
Career
1987–2009: Child actress and other roles
Bialik started her career as a child actress in the late 1980s. Her early roles included the 1988 horror film Pumpkinhead (her first acting job)[26] and guest appearances on The Facts of Life (two final-season episodes) and Beauty and the Beast. In 1988 to 1989, she appeared in eight episodes of the sitcom Webster as Frieda, Webster's classmate. It was for Beauty and the Beast, where she played a sewer-dwelling girl named Ellie (with about ten lines of dialogue) that she obtained her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card.[27] Bialik appeared in three episodes of MacGyver as Lisa Woodman. She appeared in Beaches (1988), playing Bette Midler's character as a young girl. Many reviews singled out her performance as a strong point in the film.[28][29][30] She appeared in the music video for Michael Jackson's song "Liberian Girl". In 1990, she was tied to two television pilots, Fox's Molloy and NBC's Blossom. Molloy produced six episodes for a tryout run, followed by the shooting of the pilot special for Blossom. The latter aired two weeks before the Fox series and garnered higher ratings. When Molloy folded after its six episodes, Blossom premiered as a mid-season replacement on January 3, 1991, and aired until May 22, 1995.[31]
She joined the cast of The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler in 2010. Her first appearance was in the season3 finale as a potential love interest for the character of Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons). In season 4, she began as a recurring character playing Sheldon's "friend that's a girl, but not a girlfriend." Beginning with the 8th episode of season4, she became part of the main cast.[33] Amy is a neurobiologist, a field that is related to Bialik's real-life doctorate in neuroscience. Bialik's performance in The Big Bang Theory earned her Emmy Award nominations in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Bialik was one of seven actresses who had a "quirky" personality to audition for the role.[34] Before she joined the cast, in the episode "The Bat Jar Conjecture", Raj suggests recruiting the real-life Bialik to their Physics Bowl team, saying "You know who's apparently very smart is the girl who played TV's Blossom. She got a Ph.D. in neuroscience or something." She is one of the guest stars on the 2014 Steve Carellimprovisational sketch show Riot.[35][36][37]
In August 2014, Bialik began hosting a revival of Candid Camera on TV Land along with Peter Funt.[38] Her most recent movie appearance was in a Lifetime Christmas movie, The Flight Before Christmas.[39] In 2019, Bialik appeared in a commercial for IBM.[40] On August 20, 2019, it was announced that she and her new production company, Sad Clown Productions, had signed exclusive contracts with Warner Bros. Entertainment. Mackenzie Gabriel-Vaught, a former executive at Chuck Lorre Productions, is Sad Clown's head of development.[41] Sad Clown Productions, in conjunction with Jim Parsons's That's Wonderful Productions, BBC Studios, and Miranda Hart, executive-produces a starring vehicle for Bialik, Call Me Kat, based on the British series Miranda. A co-production of Warner Bros. and Fox Entertainment, it premiered on Fox on January 3, 2021, and was renewed for a second season in May 2021.[42][43][44]
During her time on The Big Bang Theory, Bialik wrote two books in addition to co-authoring two books with pediatrician Jay Gordon. Beyond the Sling is about attachment parenting,[45][46] while Mayim's Vegan Table contains over 100 of Bialik's vegan recipes.[47][48] Her third book, Girling Up, is about the struggles of and ways in which girls grow up, showing the scientific ways in which their bodies change.[49] Its successor, Boying Up (2018) analyzes the science, anatomy, and mentality of growing up as a boy, and the physical and mental changes and challenges boys face while transitioning from adolescence to adulthood.[50]
2021–2023: Jeopardy! host and directorial debut
From May 31 to June 11, 2021, Bialik was a guest host of Jeopardy![51] On August 11, 2021, it was announced that she would host the series' future primetime specials and spinoffs.[52][53] When executive producer Mike Richards resigned as host after one week, it was announced that Bialik would guest-host the show for three weeks.[54] Her contract was extended to seven weeks; she would then alternate with Ken Jennings for the rest of the calendar year.[55] On December 8, 2021, it was announced that Bialik and Jennings would continue to host the show for the rest of the 2021–22 season.[56] On July 27, 2022, it was announced that Bialik and Jennings would be the show's permanent hosts in a job-sharing arrangement.[57] In May 2023, Bialik competed as a contestant on an episode of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune against Vanna White and Ken Jennings.[58] Bialik won $62,200 for Mental Wealth Alliance.[59]
In May 2023, it was announced that Bialik would temporarily leave Jeopardy! and would not serve as host for the rest of season 39 due to her support of the Writers Guild of America strike. Ken Jennings hosted the remainder of season 39 during Bialik's absence.[64] In December 2023, it was announced that she would no longer host the syndicated version of Jeopardy![65]
Advocacy and activism
Grok Nation
Bialik founded Grok Nation (originally styled "GrokNation") in August 2015 to facilitate conversations among people of different ages and backgrounds about issues. It aimed to engage readers in online conversations that lead to offline action, mobilizing them to change the world as a community. To grok means to understand in a profound manner. (The term comes from the 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.) Bialik had written on a similar idea for Jewish Telegraphic Agency–affiliated Jewish parenting site Kveller for five years. She announced and described her new creation on Kveller.[66][67][68]
Along with former Sassy writer and editor Christina Kelly, Bialik relaunched Grok Nation as a women's lifestyle site in March 2018.[69] The site ceased updates in March 2019, with new content shifting to Bialik's email newsletter.[70]
Bialik is a vegan and a founding member of the Shamayim V'Aretz Institute, a Jewish organization that advocates the ethical treatment of animals.[75][76] In 2017, she announced that she and vegan chef Ali Cruddas had opened Bodhi Bowl,[77] a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles. It closed permanently in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[78]
The New York Times op-ed
After the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations surfaced, Bialik wrote a New York Times op-ed in 2017 in which she described the entertainment industry as one "that profits on the exploitation of women... [and] the objectification of women".[79] With regard to protecting herself from sexual harassment, Bialik wrote that she dressed modestly and did not act flirtatiously with men, adding, "In a perfect world, women should be free to act however they want. But our world isn't perfect. Nothing—absolutely nothing—excuses men for assaulting or abusing women. But we can't be naïve about the culture we live in." Bialik's article drew backlash from critics who said she was insinuating that modesty and a conservative wardrobe can guard one against sexual assault. Patricia Arquette tweeted, "I have to say I was dressed non-provocatively at 12 walking home from school when men masturbated at me. It's not the clothes."[80] In response, Bialik said she regretted that the piece "became what it became" and participated in a Facebook Live event hosted by The New York Times to answer questions about it.[81][82][83][84]
Bialik married Michael Stone on August 31, 2003, in a Victorian-themed ceremony that included traditional Jewish wedding customs.[87] Stone, who was raised Mormon but left the church as an adolescent, converted to Judaism to marry Bialik.[88] They have two sons together.[89] Bialik returned to television in 2010, as opposed to continuing her scientific career, so she could spend more time with her children.[34] Bialik and Stone announced their divorce in November 2012,[90] and it was finalized six months later.[91]
Religious beliefs
In a 2012 interview, Bialik called herself an "aspiring Modern Orthodox".[12] She has also appeared in several YouTube cameos as Blossom and Amy Farrah Fowler, asking questions about Jewish beliefs.[92] The videos are produced by Allison Josephs, Bialik's Judaism study partner, whom she met with the help of Partners in Torah.[93] Bialik is a frequent contributor to the Jewish parenting website, Kveller.[94]
Vaccination beliefs
In a 2009 interview, Bialik said of her family: "We are a non-vaccinating family, but I make no claims about people's individual decisions. We based ours on research and discussions with our pediatrician, and we've been happy with that decision, but obviously there's a lot of controversy about it."[95] In October 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she said that though she had not received a vaccination in 30 years, she planned to be vaccinated against both the flu and the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that "As of today, my children may not have had every one of the vaccinations that your children have, but my children are vaccinated."[96] Bialik has also said that her children were not vaccinated at the time of her 2012 book Beyond the Sling, but that they have since received a "delayed" vaccination schedule.[97]
Bialik, Mayim; Jay Gordon (Introduction) (2012). Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way. Touchstone. ISBN978-1451662184.[102]
Bialik, Mayim; Jay Gordon (2014). Mayim's Vegan Table: More Than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family to Yours. Da Capo Lifelong Books. ISBN978-0738217048.[103]
Dapretto, Mirella; Hariri, Ahmad; Bialik, Mayim H.; Bookheimer, Susan Y. (1999). "Cortical correlates of affective vs. linguistic prosody: An fMRI study". NeuroImage. 9 (2): S1054. ISSN1053-8119.
^"Mayim Bialik's Big Bang". Haaretz. Archived from the original on April 17, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017. My great-grandmother's name was Miriam, and the grandkids had a hard time pronouncing the resh in the middle, so they just called her Mayam and she was known as Bobbe Mayam. And then my parents thought it was cool in 1975 to name me Mayim.
^Jacobson, Judie (August 18, 2012). "Q&A with Mayim Bialik". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved on March 15, 2016. Archived from the original on October 27, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
^Bialik, Mayim (September 4, 2012). Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way. Simon and Schuster. ISBN978-1451662184.
^Mayim Bialik. "Beyond The Sling". Simon and Schuster. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
^"Writing". Mayim Bialik. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
^Bialik, Mayim (2014). Mayim's Vegan Table: More than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family to Yours. Hachette Books. ISBN978-0738217048.
^Bialik, Mayim; Kelly, Christina (March 7, 2018). "Welcome to the New Grok Nation!". Grok Nation. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
^Bialik, Mayim (March 20, 2019). "Things are changing". Grok Nation. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
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