Simon Helberg Biography
Simon Helberg is an actor, comedian, and musician from the United States. He is best known for his roles as Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory on CBS, for which he won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
How old is Simon Helberg? – Age
He is 42 years old as of 9 December 2022. He was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. His real name is Simon Maxwell Helberg.
Simon Helberg Family – Education
Helberg is the son of actors Sandy Helberg and Harriet Helberg (née Birnbaum), as well as casting director Harriet Helberg. “Conservative to Reform, but more Reform as time went on,” he says of his upbringing as a Jew. Helberg went to the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, for middle and high school, where he met Jason Ritter, who later became his roommate at New York University. He studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company while at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Simon Helberg Wife
On July 7, 2007, Helberg married actress Jocelyn Towne, the niece of screenwriter Robert Towne. Adeline, the couple’s first child, was born on May 8, 2012. Wilder Towne Helberg, their son, was born on April 23, 2014. Since he was nine years old, Helberg has been friends with Nathan Hamill, the son of actor Mark Hamill. Jason Ritter and Helberg have been friends since they were 12 years old. They attended college together and continue to collaborate when the opportunity arises. Helberg became a French citizen through his wife Jocelyn in order to play the Conductor in French cult director Leos Carax’s English-language debut Annette, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
Simon Helberg Net Worth
Helberg has an estimated net worth of $45 Million.
Simon Helberg Career
Helberg played Seth Tobin, a nerdy engineer and Michael’s friend/rival who shared many similarities with one of Helberg’s later characters, Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory, in four episodes. Helberg began doing impressions the traditional way, imitating his high school teachers, before specializing in actors who “went off the deep end.”He appeared as Cosmé McMoon, a pianist and the accompanist to Jenkins in the 2016 biographical film Florence Foster Jenkins. Florence Foster Jenkins, a socialite heiress from New York City, founded theBayfield and her vocal coach, Carlo Edwards, act as if she’s fantastic. Bayfield McMoon, Kathleen McMoon’s husband, gave up his acting career to support his wife, and he encourages his friend to do the same for him.
McMoon is subjected to emotional blackmail by Bayfield in order for him to accompany Florence to her Carnegie Hall recital.Celebrities such as Cole Porter and Tallulah Bankhead attend the concert, which is sold out. Bayfield is told by the reviewer that he will write a negative review and refuses his bribes. He appeared as the Squirrel in the streaming series of computer-animated shorts Dug Days. The miniseries picks up after the events of Up and follows the adventures of Dug, a Golden Retriever dog who lives with his owner, 78-year-old widower and childless Carl Fredricksen, in their new suburban home.
Simon Helberg Movies and TV Shows
♦ 2021 – Annette
♦ 2016 – Florence Foster Jenkins
♦ 2015 – Hollywood Adventures
♦ 2014 – We’ll Never Have Paris
♦ 2013 – I Am I
♦ 2011 – The Selling
♦ 2011 – Let Go
♦ 2009 – A Serious Man
♦ 2007 – Careless
♦ 2007 – Evan Almighty
♦ 2007 – Mama’s Boy
♦ 2007 – Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
♦ 2006 – Derek & Simon: A Bee and a Cigarette
♦ 2006 – The Pity Card
Simon Helberg TV Shows
♦ 2007 – The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
♦ 2007–2019 – The Big Bang Theory
♦ 2006 – The Jake Effect
♦ 2006–2007 – Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
♦ 2005 – Unscripted
♦ 2005 – Life on a Stick
♦ 2005 – Arrested Development
♦ 2004 – Quintuplets
♦ 2004 – Reno 911!
♦ 2004–2006 – Joey
