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Mayim Bialik
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- #001
In addition to piano, trumpet and bass guitar, Mayim Bialik plays the harp, which she learned for The Big Bang Theory (2007).
- #002
Her grandparents were European refugees who fled the Holocaust and emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia/Hungary. Bialik was raised in the Reform Jewish faith.
- #003
Mayim's first on-screen kiss was with her Sex, Lies and Teenagers (1991) co-star Johnny Galecki, when both were just 14 years old.
- #004
Her name means "water" in Hebrew.
- #005
She was a good friend of the late Bill Bixby. While he publicly disclosed his illness, he directed her sitcom Blossom (1990) and continued working until his death on 21 November 1993.
- #006
Her name is pronounced "My-im, Bee-ah-lick".
- #007
Contrary to popular belief, she did not sing her own song for the role of young "C. C. Bloom" in Beaches (1988). Although Mayim could sing, Bette Midler decided she wanted to feature a singer whose voice sounded more like her own at age eleven, and another singer was used instead.
- #008
On 10 October 2005, she gave birth to her first child, Miles Roosevelt Bialik Stone, at age 29. The child's father is her now ex-husband, Michael Stone.
- #009
She is an accomplished dancer. She and Blossom (1990) co-star Jenna von Oÿ took lessons between breaks during the shooting season.
- #010
On 15 August 2012, she injured her right hand in a car accident in Los Angeles, but later tweeted that she would "keep all my fingers" following reports that her thumb had been nearly severed and that she would barely be able to use her right index finger. Afterwards, in five or more episodes of the sixth season, her right hand was hidden in certain ways and camera shots were arranged to conceal the injury, and she sometimes wore a glove to cover her hand while it healed.
- #011
She holds a doctorate in neuroscience.
- #012
She has not watched a single episode of the last three seasons of Blossom (1990).
- #013
She was the musical director of the UCLA Jewish a cappella group "Shir Bruin".
- #014
She has adopted a whale, a wolf and a sea bear.
- #015
On 15 August 2008, at age 32, she gave birth to her second child, her son Frederick Heschel Bialik Stone. The child's father is her now ex-husband, Michael Stone.
- #016
Her Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number is 11, one of the lowest on the planet. Her Erdös-Bacon number is 7 (also one of the lowest on the planet, with only 15 other people having lower scores and 6 others tied with her). An actor's Bacon number is the degree of separation from the actor Kevin Bacon. An Erdös number indicates degrees of separation in co-authored publications with the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös (1913-1996). A Sabbath number is the degree of separation of musical collaborations from the band Black Sabbath. For the rare person who can be counted on all 3 scales, the Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number is the sum of that person's 3 numbers.
- #017
She had separated from her husband of 9 years, Michael Stone.
- #018
She is not related to Carl Bialik, the online columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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