Mayim Bialik

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Mayim Bialik
Born December 12, 1975
San Diego, California
Spouse(s) Michael Stone
Notable roles Blossom on Blossom

Mayim Hoya Bialik (born December 12, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early-1990s NBC television sitcom Blossom.

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Bialik was born in San Diego, California to Jewish American parents Barry Bialik and Beverly Winkelman. Her grandparents were European refugees from the Holocaust, immigrating from Poland and Czechoslovakia/Hungary. Bialik was raised in the Reform Jewish religion.[1] Her name means water in Hebrew.

Bialik had a career as a child actress in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989, Bialik won the Young Artist Award for "Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Fantasy" for her role in Beaches (1988). She also made a notable guest appearance as Lisa Woodman in MacGyver. After more than ten years away from show business, Bialik appeared in the feature film Kalamazoo?, released in late 2005. She also recently appeared in an episode of the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing Jodi Funkhouser, the daughter of a friend of Larry David. Bialik also had a major part in the first season of Fat Actress.

At the end of Blossom, she chose to attend UCLA, despite the fact that she was accepted at both Harvard and Yale. She stated that she wanted to stay close to her parents and did not want to move all the way to the East Coast. She earned a bachelor's degree in 2000 in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies, and went on to the Ph.D. program in neuroscience. She took a break from these studies in 2005 to return to acting.[2] As of 2006, she is completing work on her thesis, an investigation of Prader-Willi syndrome.[3]

She is married to Michael Stone. She gave birth to their first child, a son, at age twenty-nine on October 10, 2005. Bialik is now involved in Conservative Judaism.[1]

  1. ^ a b Goldman, Michele. "Religion Blossoms for Bialik", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2002-10-11. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
  2. ^ http://www.uclalumni.net//AlumniStories/Notable/Bialik.cfm
  3. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/2020/print?id=2677187

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