Simon Helberg 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 seventh 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.
Personal life Helberg was born on December 9, 1980, in Los
Angeles, California, to Jewish parents.
He is the son of actor Sandy Helberg and casting director Harriet Helberg.
Inspired by the film The Karate Kid, Helberg trained extensively in karate during his childhood
and earned a black belt at the age of 10.
He was raised in Judaism, "Conservative to Reform but more Reform as time went on."
Helberg attended middle and high school at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California,
with Jason Ritter, who later became his roommate at NYU.
He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained at the Atlantic
Theater Company.
Helberg is married to actress Jocelyn Towne; they dated for several years before marrying
in 2007.
Jocelyn's uncle is screenwriter Robert Towne.
Helberg and Towne purchased a US$3 million 4,179 square foot Hollywood estate from Brooke
Mueller, Charlie Sheen's ex-wife.
Helberg and Towne had their first child, a daughter Adeline, on May 8, 2012.
A son Wilder Towne Helberg was born on April 23, 2014.
The birth was kept secret until June 2014.
Career For many years, Helberg performed with comedian
Derek Waters as the sketch comedy duo Derek & Simon.
In 2007, the two starred together in Derek & Simon: The Show, a web series they created
with comedian Bob Odenkirk for the comedy website Super Deluxe.
They also made two short films "Derek & Simon: The Pity Card" and "Derek & Simon: A Bee and
a Cigarette" and had a pilot deal with HBO in 2005.
One of Helberg's earliest jobs in television was briefly joining the cast of MADtv for
one season in 2002.
Helberg appeared in the 2002 feature film Van Wilder as one of the geeky students for
whom Van Wilder was throwing a party.
He had a minor role in the 2003 movie Old School.
In 2004, he was in two episodes of Reno 911!: Student Driver in Raineesha X and Hooker Buying
Son in Not Without My Mustache.
He had a small role in the sixth episode of Quintuplets, Get a Job, as a man called Neil
working behind the counter at a shoe shop where Paige and Patton were working.
He also played a small role in the film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as a Jewish record
producer.
In 2004 he appeared in the film A Cinderella Story starring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael
Murray.
Helberg played the minor role of Terry in George Clooney's 2005 film Good Night, and
Good Luck, where he had one line.
In 2005 he had a bit part on Arrested Development as Jeff, an employee of the film studio where
Maeby worked.
From 2006-07, he had a minor supporting role as Alex Dwyer in the drama Studio 60 on the
Sunset Strip.
In 2006, he appeared in a series of comical TV commercials for Richard Branson's UK financial
services company Virgin Money.
He made a short appearance on The Soup on 2011.
He also appeared as the character Moist in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and had a
small role in the pilot of the Judd Apatow-produced sitcom Undeclared.
In the 2009 Coen brothers film A Serious Man he played junior Rabbi Scott Ginsler.
He had a minor role in the Season 4 finale of The Guild as one of the Game Masters.
Beginning in 2007, Helberg has been playing Howard Wolowitz, a geeky, wannabe "Casanova"
with an eccentric fashion sense, in the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory.
Filmography Film
Television References
External links Simon Helberg at the Internet Movie Database
Simon Helberg's Official Twitter Account