Mayim Bialik

  Mayim Chaya Bialik ( born December 12, 1975) is an American actress host for a game show and author. She was the title character on Blossom, an NBC sitcom Blossom from 1991 until 1995. She was the lead character of the sitcom on NBC from 1991 to 1995. In 2019, she played CBS Sitcom's neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler. She was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Supporting Actress and also the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series, in 2015. And 2017. Bialik was raised as a Reform Jew, but she now considers herself Modern Orthodox Jewish. Bialik had a Bat Mitzvah and has called herself a "staunch Zionist".Her name, Mayim ("water" in Hebrew), originates in a family nickname of her great-grandmother, Miriam.The Hebrew-language poet Hayim Nahman Bialik was her great-great-great-granduncle.In August 2021, it was announced that Bialik would host the primetime version of Jeopardy! Bialik began hosting the syndicated version simultaneously alongside Ken Jennings after Mike Richards retired from the show.