Biography
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 (2007β2019), for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as CosmΓ© McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor β Motion Picture.
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.
Filmography (73)
For Worse
2026
The Audacity
2026
Guys Next Door
2025
Space Oddity
2023
American Symphony
2023
Poker Face
2023
As They Made Us
2022
Baby Annette, Γ l'impossible ils sont tenus
2021
Annette
2021
Dug Days
2021
Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell
2019
End of the Line
2018
Young Sheldon
2017
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
Paint It Black
2016
Hollywood Adventures
2015
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
We'll Never Have Paris
2014
The Tom and Jerry Show
2014
I Am I
2013
Norm Macdonald Live
2013
Drunk History
2013
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
The Selling
2011
Let Go
2011
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
2011
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
2010
Conan
2010
A Serious Man
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Commentary! The Musical
2008
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2008
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
Mama's Boy
2007
Careless
2007
The TV Set
2007
Evan Almighty
2007
The Making of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2007
The Big Bang Theory
2007
Reporters
2007
Derek and Simon: The Show
2007
The Guild
2007
For Your Consideration
2006
The Pity Card
2006
Derek & Simon: A Bee and a Cigarette
2006
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
2006
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
The Jake Effect
2006
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
Life on a Stick
2005
American Dad!
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
A Cinderella Story
2004
Joey
2004
Quintuplets
2004
The Soup
2004
Old School
2003
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
Reno 911!
2003
Arrested Development
2003
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002
Less than Perfect
2002
The Funkhousers
2002
Undeclared
2001
Son of the Beach
2000
The Weber Show
2000
Mumford
1999
Popular
1999
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Triumph of the Will
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