Simon Helberg
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1980-12-09
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Doctor Cerberus
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Film & TV
Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA
Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for playing Howard Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe…
Known for
- For Worse — Mediator2026
- The Audacity — Martin Phister2026
- Guys Next Door — Les (voice)2025
- Space Oddity — Dimitry2023
- American Symphony — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2023
- Poker Face — Luca Clark2023
- As They Made Us — Nathan2022
- Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus — Self2021
- Annette — The Accompanist2021
- Dug Days — Squirrel (voice)2021
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- 3,385
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- 16,033
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Simon Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, currently in its eighth season, for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He has appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv and is also known for his role as Moist in the Joss Whedon-led web miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Simon+Helb
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,333x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,746x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,538x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,609x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 31,498x
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Key facts
- Born
- Simon Maxwell Helberg , ( 1980-12-09 ) December 9, 1980 (age 45) , Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- United States France
- Education
- New York University ( BFA )
- Occupations
- Actor comedian musician
- Years active
- 1999–present
- Spouse
- Jocelyn Towne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2007 )
- Father
- Sandy Helberg
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 9 December 1980
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- Jocelyn Towne
- Father
- Sandy Helberg
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor and comedian. From 2007 to 2019, he played Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role. His performance as Cosmé McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Helberg has also appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv as a cast member in season 8 (2002–2003), and his other film roles including Old School (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), A Serious Man (2009), and Annette (2021).
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