<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> <P> She had a recurring role as the high school guidance counselor in ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager . In 2009, Bialik was nominated by Clinton Kelly for a makeover on TLC's What Not To Wear . She joined the cast of The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler . Her first appearance was in the season 3 finale as a potential love interest for the character of Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons). In Season 4, she began as a recurring character playing Sheldon's "friend that's a girl, but not a girlfriend ." Beginning with Season 4, Episode 8, she became part of the main cast . Amy is a neurobiologist, which is a field related to Bialik's real - life academic career in neuroscience . Bialik's performance in The Big Bang Theory earned her Emmy Award nominations in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series . Bialik was one of seven actresses who had a "quirky" personality to audition for the role . Prior to her joining the cast, in the episode "The Bat Jar Conjecture", Raj suggests recruiting the real - life Bialik to their Physics Bowl team, saying "You know who's apparently very smart is the girl who played TV's Blossom . She got a Ph. D. in neuroscience or something ." She is cast as one of the guest stars on the Steve Carell 2014 improvisational sketch show Riot . </P> <P> In August 2014, Bialik began hosting a revival of Candid Camera on TV Land alongside Peter Funt . On March 6, 2012, her book, Beyond the Sling: A Real - Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way, was released . Her most recent movie appearance was in a Lifetime Christmas movie, The Flight Before Christmas in 2015 . </P>

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