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Jim Parsons

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Jim Parsons

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Also known as James Joseph Parsons

American actor (born 1973)

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Jim Parsons is an American television, stage, film, and voice actor who began his professional career in 1999. Born in Houston, Texas, on March 24, 1973, he is a citizen of the United States. He is best known for his role as Sheldon Cooper in *The Big Bang Theory*. Other notable works include *A Kid Like Jake*, *The Boys in the Band*, and *Hidden Figures*. Parsons has received several awards, including an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, a Theatre World Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

He was educated at the University of Houston and the University of San Diego. Parsons speaks English and has a net worth of 80,000,000. He resides in Gramercy Park, Los Angeles, and New York City. His personal life includes coming out and marriage. He is a Christian and has a relative named Louis-François Trouard. Parsons is recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection.

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Person · Open Library

Works
19

Top works

  • Beetle Creek
  • Blake the Bored
  • Natural Justice - Economic Satyagraha
  • Canadian Journal for Teacher Research - Teacher and Student Efficacy
  • Canadian Journal for Teacher Research

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Film & TV

Acting · Houston, Texas, USA

Jim Parsons is an American television and film actor, best known for playing Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory.

Known for

  • Animal Farm — Carl (voice)2026
  • The Leader — Warren2026
  • Reclaim the Flag — Self2025
  • Jordageddon — Sheldon Cooper2023
  • Spoiler Alert — Michael Ausiello2022
  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation — Truman Capote (voice)2021
  • Harvey — Elwood P. Dowd2021
  • The Boys in the Band — Michael2020
  • The Boys in the Band: Something Personal — Self2020
  • Staged — Jim2020

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1973

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
438
Total plays
1,586

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James Joseph "Jim" Parsons (born March 24, 1973) is an American television and film actor. He is best known for playing Sheldon Cooper on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, with his performance often cited as a significant reason for the program's success.[1][2][3] He has received several awards for his performance, including the Television Critics Association award for the highest individual achievements in comedy,[4] the National Association of <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Parsons">

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,416x

  2. The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

    · 2009 · cited 14,214x

  3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,201x

  4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 6,815x

  5. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,794x

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Encyclopedic overview

James Joseph Parsons (born March 24, 1973) is an American actor. Known for his work on both stage and screen, his accolades include four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for a Tony Award. From 2015 to 2018, Forbes named him the world's highest-paid television actor.

A graduate of the University of Houston and the University of San Diego, Parsons started his career on the stage and had his screen debut in 2002. From 2007 to 2019, he played Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, winning four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He was further Emmy-nominated for the television film The Normal Heart (2014), the short form series Special (2019), and playing Henry Willson in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood (2020).

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