Mayim Bialik

• Birthplace: San Diego, California
• Birthday: December 12, 1975

This gifted juvenile performer first gained notice as the young Bette Midler in Garry Marshall's "Beaches" (1988). Compared by some to a young Midler or Streisand, the brash and multi-talented Bialik started her acting career in 1987 with a TV guest spot on the cult favorite, "Beauty and the Beast," and subsequently played a contemporary of the diminutive "Webster" on several episodes of that ABC sitcom. She continued to turn up in small roles on various TV shows until landing the titular role in "Molloy" (1990), a short-lived sitcom. Bialik st…more