13 Facts About Melissa Rauch

Melissa Rauch is best known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2009 to 2019, for which she was nominated for the Critics Choice Television Award in 2013.

From 2004 to 2008, Rauch worked as a regular contributor on the VH1 series Best Week Ever.

Melissa Rauch starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the 2015 sports comedy-drama film The Bronze and provided the voice of DC character Harley Quinn in the 2017 animated film Batman and Harley Quinn.

Melissa Rauch had supporting roles in I Love You, Man, Ice Age: Collision Course and Flock of Dudes, and Ode to Joy and The Laundromat.

Melissa Rauch was born to David and Susan Melissa Rauch in Marlboro Township, New Jersey.

Melissa Rauch developed an interest in acting while attending Marlboro High School.

Melissa Rauch earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting and graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City in 2002.

In 2009, Melissa Rauch began playing the recurring role of Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, a co-worker of Penny's at The Cheesecake Factory who began to date Howard Wolowitz, in the third season of CBS's The Big Bang Theory.

Melissa Rauch co-wrote and co-produced the film The Bronze, in which she starred as Hope Ann Greggory, a bronze medal-winning gymnast clinging to her glory days of 12 years earlier.

In 2017, Melissa Rauch voiced Harley Quinn in the animated film Batman and Harley Quinn and she voiced Light Thief in "Light Riders" from Blaze and the Monster Machines.

Melissa Rauch is married to writer Winston Melissa Rauch, who collaborated with her on The Miss Education of Jenna Bush and other projects.

Melissa Rauch announced her 2017 pregnancy by writing an essay in Glamour magazine where she reflected on a miscarriage she had previously suffered.

Melissa Rauch usually portrays Bernadette using a "sweet, high-pitched purr", and switches to an "eerie, haranguing imitation" of Mrs Wolowitz in interactions with Mrs Wolowitz.