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The Big Bang Theory (season 4)
The fourth season of the American sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' began airing on CBS on September 23, 2010. Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik auditioned and were promoted to the main cast during this season as Dr. List of The Big Bang Theory characters#Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, Bernadette Rostenkowski and Amy Farrah Fowler, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler respectively. Johnny Galecki received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards for the episode "The Big Bang Theory (season 4)#ep78, The Benefactor Factor". Jim Parsons won the same award for the episode "The Big Bang Theory (season 4)#ep84, The Agreement Dissection". Production During the season, Kaley Cuoco's character Penny was absent from episodes 5 and 6 after she fell off a horse and the horse broke her leg. When returning to the series, she was shown working as a bartender instead of waiter, waitressing at her usual workplace, The Cheesec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Galecki
John Mark Galecki (born April 30, 1975) is an American actor. He played Leonard Hofstadter in the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' (2007–2019) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and David Healy in the ABC sitcoms '' Roseanne'' (1992–1997; 2018) and ''The Conners'' (2018–2019). Galecki also appeared in the films ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'' (1989), '' Prancer'' (1989), '' Suicide Kings'' (1997), ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' (1997), ''Bookies'' (2003), ''In Time'' (2011), and ''Rings'' (2017). Galecki was one of the highest paid television actors in the world, with his role in ''The Big Bang Theory'' earning him approximately US$900,000 per episode between 2017 and 2019. In 2018, he was estimated to be the world's second highest-paid male TV actor by ''Forbes'' (behind only his ''The Big Bang Theory'' co-star Jim Parsons), earning $25 million. Early life Galecki was born in Bree, Limburg, Belgium to American parents of Polish, Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Cooper
Sheldon Lee Cooper, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Doctor of Science, Sc.D., is a Character (arts), fictional character in the CBS television series ''The Big Bang Theory'' and its spinoff series ''Young Sheldon'', portrayed by actors Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage respectively (with Parsons as the latter series' narrator). For his portrayal, Parsons won four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Awards, TCA Award, and two Critics' Choice Television Awards. The character's childhood is the focus of ''Young Sheldon'': the series' first season is set in 1989 when nine-year-old child prodigy, prodigy Sheldon has skipped ahead five grades, to start high school alongside his older brother. The adult Sheldon is a senior Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist at California Institute of Technology, The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and for the first ten seasons of ''The Big Bang Theory'' shares an apartment with his colleague and best friend, Leonard Hofsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Sussman
Kevin Sussman (born December 4, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He played Walter on the ABC comedy-drama ''Ugly Betty'' and Stuart Bloom on the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory''. Starting with the sixth season of ''The Big Bang Theory'', he was promoted to a series regular. Early life Sussman is one of four brothers born to Jewish parents. He grew up in Staten Island and graduated from New Dorp High School. He attended the College of Staten Island for one year and went on to graduate from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. He later studied with acting teacher Uta Hagen for four years. Career Sussman got his start in commercials, playing geeks or nerds, during the dot-com boom for companies such as FedEx. At the time, he worked as a computer consultant. In 1999, he made his film debut in ''Liberty Heights'' as Alan Joseph Zuckerman. Sussman moved to Los Angeles when he was cast in ''Ugly Betty''. He played the character Stuart Bloom on ''The Big Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Metcalf
Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. Often described as a character actor, she's known for her complex and versitile roles across the stage and screen. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including two Tony Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Metcalf began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and frequently works in Chicago theatre. She made her Broadway debut in the 1985 play ''My Thing of Love''. She went on to receive six Tony Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Play in 2017 for her performance in ''A Doll's House, Part 2'' and Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee's ''Three Tall Women''. Her other Tony-nominated roles were for ''November'' (2008), '' The Other Place'' (2010), '' Misery'' (2016), and ''Hillary and Clinton'' (2019). She gained nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Ann Susi
Carol Ann Susi (February 2, 1952 – November 11, 2014) was an American actress whose career spanned 40 years. Her best known roles were probably her first and last; she debuted as the recurring character of semi-competent but likable intern Monique Marmelstein on '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker''. More than three decades and countless supporting roles later, her level of celebrity was elevated for having provided the voice of recurring off-screen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series ''The Big Bang Theory''. Career Susi made her first on-screen appearance in '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', where she played the recurring role of intern Monique Marmelstein. Other television and film credits included: ''McMillan & Wife'', '' Coyote Ugly'', ''Just Go with It'', ''The Big Bang Theory'', ''Cheers'', ''Becker'', the 1990 biker comedy ''Masters of Menace'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''That '70s Show'', ''Out of Practice'', ''Cats & Dogs'', '' Just Shoot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernee Watson-Johnson
Vernee Christell Watson-Johnson (née Watson; born September 28, 1949) is an American actress, author, and acting coach. Watson-Johnson is best known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' (1975–1979) and as Viola "Vy" Smith on ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' (1990–1996), playing the mother of Will Smith's character. She is often featured in guest or recurring roles as a nurse. She is currently playing Gloria Tyler (the head nurse) on '' Bob Hearts Abishola''. Early life Vernee Christell Watson was born in New York City on September 28, 1949, where she was also raised. She graduated from Cathedral High School and New York University with a major in drama. She began her professional career at age 17 with the Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble in Manhattan and would tour with the group for 5 years. Career Watson-Johnson played Blue's love interest in the 1972 film ''Trick Baby''. She was also a regular cast member of the 1985–1986 situation c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 19901995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on Mirror symmetry (string theory), mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the Flop-transition, flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, ''The Elegant Universe'', ''Icarus at the Edge of Time'', ''The Fabric of the Cosmos'', ''The Hidden Reality'', and related Public Broadcasting Service, PBS television specials. He also appeared on ''The Big Bang Theory'' episode "The Big Bang Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeVar Burton
Levar Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host, best known for playing Geordi La Forge in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994). He also played Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries ''Roots'' (1977), and was host of the PBS Kids educational television series ''Reading Rainbow'' for more than 23 years (1983–2006). He received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of ''Reading Rainbow''. His other roles include Cap Jackson in ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977), Donald Lang in ''Dummy'' (1979), Tommy Price in ''The Hunter'' (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in ''Ali'' (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book ''The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.'' In 1990, he was honored for his achievements in television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson ( or ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe" column for '' Natural History'' magazine, some of which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Takei
George Takei (; ja, ジョージ・タケイ; born Hosato Takei (武井 穂郷), April 20, 1937) is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the fictional starship USS ''Enterprise'' in the television series ''Star Trek'' and subsequent films. Takei was born to Japanese American parents, with whom he lived in U.S.-run internment camps during World War II. He began pursuing acting in college, which led in 1965 to the role of Sulu, to which he returned periodically into the 1990s. Upon coming out as gay in 2005, he became a prominent proponent of LGBT rights and active in state and local politics. He has been a vocal advocate of the rights of immigrants, in part through his work on the 2012 Broadway show ''Allegiance'', about the internment experience. Although Takei was born and raised in California, he spoke both English and Japanese growing up and remains fluent in both languages. He has won several awards and accolades for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katee Sackhoff
Katee Sackhoff (born April 8, 1980) is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004–2009), Niko Breckenridge on the Netflix series '' Another Life'' (2019–2021), Victoria "Vic" Moretti on the A&E / Netflix series '' Longmire'', Bo-Katan Kryze on the Disney+ series ''The Mandalorian'' as well as providing the voice for the character in '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' (2012–2020) and ''Star Wars Rebels'' (2017), and the voice of Bitch Pudding on ''Robot Chicken'' (2005–present), as well as several other characters throughout her career. She was nominated for four Saturn Awards for her work on ''Battlestar Galactica'' and won the award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005. Sackhoff also starred in the short-lived TV series ''The Fearing Mind'' (2000–2001) and ''The Education of Max Bickford'' (2001–2002); had recurring roles in the TV series '' Bionic Woman'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, inventor, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, with business partner Steve Jobs, he co-founded Apple Computer, which later became the world's largest technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalization. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution. In 1975, Wozniak started developing the Apple I into the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year. He primarily designed the Apple II, introduced in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers, while Jobs oversaw the development of its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed its switching power supply. With human–c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
