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Mayim Bialik captured the hearts of many in 2010 withthe bookish but complex Amy Farrah Fowler in the popular TV seriesThe Big Bang Theory.She appeared in 203 episodes of the show and for her portrayal, she won two Critics’ Choice Awards, four Emmy Award nominations, and a SAG Award nomination.
There’s no doubt that she got famous by joining theTV’s hottest sitcom but all that fame didn’t come easy to the actress. And she knows the cost of the fame very well.
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Mayim Bialik’s Hidden Struggles Before $25M Prosperity
Looking from the outsideMayim Bialik‘s life seems all sorted but as said,“success comes with a price tag,”that’s what happened in her case.She candidly discussed her struggles via her other unexpected roles as a podcaster and social media influencer.
Bialik walked away with 5 seasons ofBlossom, so it would be easy to assume that she might have a bulging bank account at that time but that wasn’t it. Shedidn’t make a lot of money from her TV show. Back then, TV actors, especially young women in successful but not super popular sitcoms, didn’t earn as much as they do today.
Bialik had to work hard, tutoring and doing various jobs, to pay for college because her TV salary wasn’t enough. She wants people to know that she didn’t become super rich from the show and that it didn’t even go into reruns. As the 48-year-old said in theEver Actorpodcast:
“When I went to college, I was not an independently wealthy, I-never-have-to-work-again person. I tutored, I did all the things that people do to make ends meet. I budgeted… We did not make the kind of money that set us up for the entire universe.”
But besides all the struggles she faced in life, Mayim Bialik has reached the heights of success.
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Mayim Bialik’s Journey from Child Actor to The Big Bang Triumph
Despite her fame as a child actor, Bialik felt out of place.She grew up inSan Diego and got her first acting job in 1988’sPumpkinheadwhen she was just 12 years old. Her breakthrough role camein 1990 when she was cast inBlossom.In recent years, she held recurring roles on ABC Family’sSecret Life of the American Teenagerand Fox’sTil Death.
But the real success game for her started when she was cast inThe Big Bang Theory.In the show, she as Amy was a neurobiologist. In real life, Bialik, too owns a Ph. D. in neuroscience from UCLA, with degrees in neuroscience, Hebrew, and Jewish studies.
During the middle seasons ofBBT, the actress earned $200,000/episode—totaling $4.5M/season. In 2017, her earnings were raised earnings to $450,000/episode for the final two seasons—reaching $10M/season. Bialik earned $1 million per year as the co-host ofJeopardy!
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She is also the author of books includingBeyond the Sling, Mayim’s Vegan Table, Girling Up,andBoying Up.Her bookGirling Upachieved #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List.
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Meet Shreya, FandomWire’s go-to Pop-Culture Writer. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism and a pop culture obsession that rivals even the most die-hard ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel fans.Her articles have been published in Animated Times, Creator Mail, and The Luxxe Mag. When Shreya’s not busy dishing out hot takes, she is lost in the world of rom-coms.
