Leslie Winkle shared an apartment in Pasadena with colleague and friend Dr Sheldon Cooper for much of the series.
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35 Facts About Leslie Winkle
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Leslie Winkle's mother, Dr Beverly Hofstadter, is a neuroscientist and world-renowned psychiatrist with whom he has a strained relationship.
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Leslie Winkle is a cold, condescending, self-centered, and immature person but is rarely malicious.
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Leslie Winkle is obsessed with routines and any disruptions distress him enormously.
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Leslie Winkle defends this by pointing out that he has a master's degree in Engineering from MIT and that the equipment he designs is launched into space, unlike the theoretical work of his friends.
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Leslie Winkle is a fan of Harry Potter and Indian music, but appreciates the Indian lullabies his mother sang and the catchiness of Hindi phrases.
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Leslie Winkle was infatuated with Penny, and secretly wrote love poems about Bernadette.
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Leslie Winkle is very shy around women outside of his family, and during the first six seasons of the show, found himself unable to speak to women while in their presence unless he drank alcoholic beverages, or believed he had done so.
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Leslie Winkle eventually is able to get over this condition and starts to, unsuccessfully and for short periods, date women.
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Leslie Winkle, PhD is an experimental physicist who shares her lab with Leonard.
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Leslie Winkle is one of Sheldon's archenemies due to their conflicting scientific ideas and takes every opportunity to insult Sheldon for mistreating her.
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Leslie Winkle is a smart, short-tempered, ruthless, manipulative bully and often competitive young woman with a squeaky voice who sometimes displays a nice and friendly personality.
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Leslie Winkle makes an appearance as a child in the Season 2 finale where she is portrayed in a non-speaking role by Lily Sanfelippo.
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Leslie Winkle prefers to learn topics that interest him on his own—such as Faraday's law of induction and gravitational lensing—than the standard curriculum of grade school.
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Leslie Winkle is able to control Sheldon, with Leonard once describing her to Penny as "Sheldon's kryptonite".
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Leslie Winkle is nevertheless kind at heart and is tolerant of other faiths.
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Leslie Winkle is portrayed by Lance Barber, who previously portrayed Jimmy Speckerman in one episode of The Big Bang Theory.
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Leslie Winkle has been mentioned in The Big Bang Theory as one of Sheldon's childhood bullies, although in Young Sheldon, he is rather good-natured and at times is friends with Sheldon but is shown to be extremely dim-witted.
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Leslie Winkle made various other appearances, including forming a band with Raj and Howard in which he sang a song from the point of view of the boulder seen near the beginning of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Leslie Winkle is recently divorced, his wife having had an affair with a French chef, which he remains bitter over.
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Leslie Winkle has social anxiety issues, which allows Raj and her to connect.
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Leslie Winkle seems to be oblivious to Howard's work as an engineer and treats him as though he is still a child.
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Leslie Winkle is a master at Wheel of Fortune and guessing answers at game shows.
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Leslie Winkle frequently refers to Leonard, Sheldon, and Raj as Howard's "little friends" and often refers to Caltech as a "school".
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Leslie Winkle is noted to be on hormone replacement therapy, and she wants to "play doctor" with Raj when he asks to sleep over.
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Leslie Winkle comes to visit, and Penny feels compelled to involve Leonard in a ruse to make him think they are still together.
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Leslie Winkle takes a lively interest in the boys' scientific exploits, but sometimes becomes the butt of their jokes.
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Leslie Winkle reveals that he has sold his menu company and become rich from the profits, and invites her and Leonard to dinner at his yacht with him and his new wife, Marissa Johnson.
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Leslie Winkle ends up dating Meemaw after her breakup with Dr Sturgis.
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Leslie Winkle is rather childish like going to bed at 7:30 and asking Meemaw's permission to do things as if she were his mother.
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Leslie Winkle has higher social skills than Sheldon and is capable of being friends with nonintellectuals.
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Leslie Winkle takes an interest in him and because of that, refuses to give him a ticket.
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Leslie Winkle has a troubled relationship with his parents, having been treated badly by both of them after moving to the United States.
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Leslie Winkle has two sisters, Mai and Kim-Ly, with whom he has a good relationship.
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