Simon Helberg
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). 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.
73 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 73
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Young Sheldon
2017
Conan
2010
The Big Bang Theory
2007
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Arrested Development
2003
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996
The Tom and Jerry Show
2014
Reno 911!
2003
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
2011
Drunk History
2013
The Soup
2004
Poker Face
2023
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
The Guild
2007
Joey
2004
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
2010
Less than Perfect
2002
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Popular
1999
The Audacity
2026
Son of the Beach
2000
Entertainment Tonight
1981
A Cinderella Story
2004
Undeclared
2001
Old School
2003
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015
Quintuplets
2004
Evan Almighty
2007
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2008
Norm Macdonald Live
2013
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002
The Weber Show
2000
The Jake Effect
2006
Dug Days
2021
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
A Serious Man
2009
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
Derek and Simon: The Show
2007
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
Life on a Stick
2005
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Reporters
2007
Annette
2021
For Worse
2026
For Your Consideration
2006
We'll Never Have Paris
2014
Mumford
1999
Space Oddity
2023
Mama's Boy
2007
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
2006
The TV Set
2007
The Making of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
2007
Paint It Black
2016
The Funkhousers
2002
As They Made Us
2022
Let Go
2011
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
American Symphony
2023
Careless
2007
Guys Next Door
2025
I Am I
2013
Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell
2019
Commentary! The Musical
2008
Hollywood Adventures
2015
The Pity Card
2006
Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus
2021
The Selling
2011
Triumph of the Will
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End of the Line
2018
Derek & Simon: A Bee and a Cigarette
2006