<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> mayimbialik.net groknation.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Mayim Chaya Bialik (/ ˈmaɪ. əm biˈɑːlɪk /, MY - əm bee - AH - lik) (born December 12, 1975) is an American actress and neuroscientist . From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of NBC's Blossom . Since 2010, she has played Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler--like the actress, a neuroscientist--on CBS's The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she has been nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and won a Critic's Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series . </P> <P> Mayim Chaya Bialik was born on December 12, 1975, in San Diego, California, to Barry (d . 2015) and Beverly (née Winkleman) Bialik . Three of her four grandparents emigrated from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary . Bialik was raised as a Reform Jew, but now considers herself to be Orthodox Jewish . Her personal name, Mayim, originates in a mispronunciation of Miriam, her great - grandmother's name . It also means "water" in Hebrew . </P>

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