Melissa Rauch is commonly known for her character Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski Wolowitz on the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory. She was born on June 23, 1980 as Melissa Ivy Rauch. She is a versatile, talented and notable American actress and comedian. She has also tried her hands in Film Producing and script writing. She was born in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, United States of America as a daughter to Susan and David Rauch. She graduated in 2002 from Marymount Manhattan College and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts in Acting. She used to perform stand-up comedy and soon was famous in the NYC comedy scene. Her main break came in 2009 when she was cast the recurring role of Bernadette in the third season of The Big Bang Theory. She became a show regular as her character got engaged to and married other character Howard Wolowitz in the following seasons respectively. She was nominated as a part of the cast of the series for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and the series has been nominated for four consecutive years from 2011. Besides that, she has also participated in VH1’s TV show Best Week Ever. She has also appeared in numerous TV shows including True Blood, The Office, 12 Miles of Bad Road among others and films like Delirious, I Love You, Man, The Condom Killer, In Lieu of Flowers and others.
Taking about her personal life, Melissa Rauch married the writer Winston Beigel. She had met her future husband as they worked together on The Miss Education of Jenna Bush, The Condom Killers and other projects. The couple had met at college and has stayed married for long. Divorce is nowhere near and the actress has not been pregnant yet. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles, California.