Simon Helberg
Actor
Biography
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.
As Director
Filmography
Evan Almighty
as Staffer 2007
A Cinderella Story
as Terry 2004
A Serious Man
as Rabbi Scott 2009
Old School
as Jerry 2003
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
as Vernon 2002
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Cosmé McMoon 2016
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as CBS Page 2005
Annette
as The Accompanist 2021
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
as Dreidel L'Chaim 2007
For Your Consideration
as Junior Agent 2006
Mumford
as College Roommate 1999
We'll Never Have Paris
as Quinn 2014
The TV Set
as TJ Goldman 2007
Mama's Boy
as Rathkon 2007
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
as Al 2006
American Symphony
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2023
Space Oddity
as Dimitry 2023