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Simon Helberg

Simon Helberg

Born: 1980-12-09 • Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

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
For Worse poster
For Worse
2026 • Mediator
American Symphony poster
American Symphony
2023 • Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Space Oddity poster
Space Oddity
2023 • Dimitry
As They Made Us poster
As They Made Us
2022 • Nathan
Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus poster
Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus
2021 • Self
Annette poster
Annette
2021 • The Accompanist
Unraveling The Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell poster
Unraveling The Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell
2019 • Self (archive footage)
End of the Line poster
End of the Line
2018 • Little Man
Paint It Black poster
Paint It Black
2016 • Jeremy
Florence Foster Jenkins poster
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 • Cosmé McMoon
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows poster
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016 • Self
Hollywood Adventures poster
Hollywood Adventures
2015 • Translator
We'll Never Have Paris poster
We'll Never Have Paris
2014 • Quinn
I Am I poster
I Am I
2013 • Seth
Let Go poster
Let Go
2011 • Frank
The Selling poster
The Selling
2011 • Young Husband
A Serious Man poster
A Serious Man
2009 • Rabbi Scott
Commentary! The Musical poster
Commentary! The Musical
2008
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog poster
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2008 • Moist
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story poster
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007 • Dreidel L'Chaim
The Making of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog poster
The Making of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2007 • Self
Mama's Boy poster
Mama's Boy
2007 • Rathkon
Evan Almighty poster
Evan Almighty
2007 • Staffer
Careless poster
Careless
2007 • Stewart
The TV Set poster
The TV Set
2007 • TJ Goldman
For Your Consideration poster
For Your Consideration
2006 • Junior Agent
No Image
Derek & Simon: A Bee and a Cigarette
2006 • Simon
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas poster
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
2006 • Al
The Pity Card poster
The Pity Card
2006 • Simon
Good Night, and Good Luck. poster
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 • CBS Page
A Cinderella Story poster
A Cinderella Story
2004 • Terry
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales poster
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003 • Adam (DGA Trainee)
Old School poster
Old School
2003 • Jerry
National Lampoon's Van Wilder poster
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002 • Vernon
Mumford poster
Mumford
1999 • College Roommate
No Image
Triumph of the Will