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Simon Helberg

Actor

Simon Helberg

Born December 9, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA30 films

Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for playing Howard Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

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He has appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv, and has appeared in films such as Old School (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), A Serious Man (2009), and Annette (2021).

He wrote, directed (along with his wife Jocelyn Towne), and starred in the film We'll Never Have Paris (2014), which is based on he and his wife's relationship.

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A Serious Man posterFirst watchA Serious Man20096.7as Rabbi ScottIt is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
A Cinderella Story poster6.6A Cinderella Story2004Old School poster6.6Old School2003Good Night, and Good Luck. poster7.1Good Night, and Good Luck.2005Florence Foster Jenkins poster6.7Florence Foster Jenkins2016Evan Almighty poster5.6Evan Almighty2007National Lampoon's Van Wilder poster6.0National Lampoon's Van Wilder2002Annette poster6.7Annette2021Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story poster6.6Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story2007

Filmography

30 films as actor
  1. TBATriumph of the Will
  2. 2026For WorseMediator
  3. 2023Space OddityDimitry
  4. 2022As They Made UsNathan
  5. 2021AnnetteThe Accompanist
  6. 2018End of the LineLittle Man
  7. 2016Paint It BlackJeremy
  8. 2016Florence Foster JenkinsCosmé McMoon
  9. 2015Hollywood AdventuresTranslator
  10. 2014We'll Never Have ParisQuinn
  11. 2013I Am ISeth
  12. 2011Let GoFrank
  13. 2011The SellingYoung Husband
  14. 2009A Serious ManRabbi Scott
  15. 2008Commentary! The Musical
  16. 2007Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryDreidel L'Chaim
  17. 2007Mama's BoyRathkon
  18. 2007Evan AlmightyStaffer
  19. 2007CarelessStewart
  20. 2007The TV SetTJ Goldman
  21. 2006For Your ConsiderationJunior Agent
  22. 2006Derek & Simon: A Bee and a CigaretteSimon
  23. 2006Bickford Shmeckler's Cool IdeasAl
  24. 2006The Pity CardSimon
  25. 2005Good Night, and Good Luck.CBS Page
  26. 2004A Cinderella StoryTerry
  27. 2003Tracey Ullman in the Trailer TalesAdam (DGA Trainee)
  28. 2003Old SchoolJerry
  29. 2002National Lampoon's Van WilderVernon
  30. 1999MumfordCollege Roommate