Simon Helberg
Known for ActingBorn 1980-12-09Los 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).
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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.
Known for
Old School
2003 · as Jerry
A Cinderella Story
2004 · as Terry
A Serious Man
2009 · as Rabbi Scott
Evan Almighty
2007 · as Staffer
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002 · as Vernon
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 · as CBS Page
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007 · as Dreidel L'Chaim
Space Oddity
2023 · as Dimitry
Mama's Boy
2007 · as Rathkon
Annette
2021 · as The Accompanist
For Your Consideration
2006 · as Junior Agent
For Worse
2026 · as Mediator
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · as Cosmé McMoon
Careless
2007 · as Stewart
As They Made Us
2022 · as Nathan
Paint It Black
2016 · as Jeremy
Hollywood Adventures
2015 · as Translator
We'll Never Have Paris
2014 · as Quinn