<P> Bialik attended Walter Reed Junior High School (now Walter Reed Middle School) and graduated in 1993 from North Hollywood High School in North Hollywood, California . While completing filming on Blossom she received acceptance offers from UCLA, Yale, and Harvard . In acknowledgment of her acting commitments, she was granted a deferred acceptance and attended UCLA . She stated that she wanted to stay close to her parents and did not want to move to the East Coast . </P> <P> Bialik earned a B.S. degree in neuroscience, with minors in Hebrew and Jewish studies, and went on to study for a doctorate in neuroscience . She took a break from studies in 2005 to return to acting . Bialik returned to earn her Ph. D. in neuroscience from UCLA, in 2007 . Her dissertation was an investigation of hypothalamic activity in patients with Prader--Willi syndrome, entitled "Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive - compulsive, affiliative and satiety behaviors in Prader--Willi syndrome ." </P> <P> Bialik started her career as a child actress in the late 1980s . Her early roles included the horror film Pumpkinhead (1988), her first acting job, and guest appearances on The Facts of Life and Beauty and the Beast . In 1988 - 1989, she had a recurring role on the TV comedy Webster playing Frieda, Webster's classmate, in 8 episodes . It was for her Beauty and the Beast work, in which she played a sewer - dwelling girl named Ellie who had about 10 lines of dialogue, that Bialik obtained her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card . She appeared in three episodes of MacGyver as Lisa Woodman . She appeared in Beaches (1988), playing Bette Midler's character as a young girl . She also appeared in the video for the song "Liberian Girl" by Michael Jackson . In 1990, Bialik was tied to two television pilots, Fox's Molloy and NBC's Blossom . Molloy at first produced six episodes for a tryout run, followed by the shooting of the pilot special for Blossom . The latter actually aired two weeks before Bialik's Fox series and ultimately garnered higher ratings than the former . When Molloy folded after its six episodes, Blossom premiered as a mid-season replacement on January 3, 1991, and aired until May 22, 1995 . </P> <P> Bialik had a major part in the Woody Allen comedy film Don't Drink the Water in 1994 . On September 8, 1992, Bialik was a celebrity contestant guest in the episode "Disturbing The Heavenly Peace", the first episode of the second season of the game show Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? . Between 1995 and 2005, Bialik mostly did voice - over work for cartoons, such as The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Disney's Recess and Kim Possible, Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo, and Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! . She appeared in the feature film Kalamazoo? (2005) and appeared in three episodes of the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm as Jodi Funkhouser, the lesbian daughter of a friend of Larry David . Bialik also made guest appearances as a fictionalized version of herself in the series Fat Actress and made a guest appearance in an episode of Saving Grace . </P>

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