Mayim Hoya Bialik is best known for portraying Bette Midler as a child in Beaches as well as her subsequent lead role as Blossom Russo in the early-1990s NBC television sitcom Blossom. Bialik most recently appeared regularly on the #1 comedy in America, CBS's The Big Bang Theory , playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, a role for which she has been a four-time nominee for an Emmy and two-time winner of the Critics' Choice Award. She will star in an upcoming multi-camera sitcom, Call Me Kat , airing on FOX in fall 2020. Bialik earned a B.S. from UCLA in 2000 in neuroscience and Hebrew & Jewish studies, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience, also from UCLA, in 2007.

Her book about attachment parenting, Beyond the Sling , was published in March 2012 (Simon and Schuster). Her vegan cookbook, Mayim's Vegan Table , was published by Da Capo Press in spring of 2014. Bialik also has two New York Times bestsellers with Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular (Philomel Books, 2017) and Boying Up: How to Be Brave, Bold and Brilliant (Philomel Books, 2018).