Sara Gilbert

Sara Gilbert (born January 29, 1975, Santa Monica, California) is an American actress best known for her role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988 to 1997 and again in 2018 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne. She also guest stars as Leslie Winkle in CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
==Early life==
Gilbert was born Sara Rebecca Abeles in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are Barbara Crane (née Cowan) and Harold Abeles. Her two older adopted half-siblings, Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert, were stars of Little House on the Prairie. Melissa and Jonathan were adopted by Barbara and her first husband Paul Gilbert (born Paul MacMahon); Paul died in 1975. Abeles changed her surname to Gilbert to become an actress in 1984.
==Television career==
Gilbert decided at age six that she wanted to be an actress after her older sister, Melissa Gilbert, got a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Following appearances in television movies and a commercial for Kool Aid, at the age of thirteen she landed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, in Roseanne. Sara was a cast member during the show's nine-year run from 1988 to 1997, for which she also wrote a fourth-season episode called "Don't Make Me Over". Her contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers juggled story lines and taping schedules to allow her to study at Yale University while remaining part of the cast, shooting remote segments of Darlene at a sound stage in New York. At Yale, she majored in art with an emphasis on photography; she graduated with honors in 1997. On April 28, 2017, it was announced that a revival of Roseanne was in the works and that Goodman along with most of the original cast and some of the producers would return for the limited series that was being shopped around with ABC and Netflix the frontrunners to land the show. On May 16, 2017, it was confirmed that 8 episodes would air mid-season in 2018 on ABC. On May 29, 2018, in the wake of racist remarks made by Barr on Twitter regarding Valerie Jarrett (an advisor of former president Barack Obama), ABC canceled the revival after a single season. The next month, ABC ordered a ten-episode Roseanne spin-off titled The Conners, which stars the same cast as Darlene and opposite with Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), also without Barr.
Gilbert has made guest appearances on shows such as The Simpsons, 24, Will & Grace, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Starting in 2004, she had a recurring role as medical student Jane Figler on the long-running hospital drama ER.
She returned to prime time television in the fall of 2005 in the sitcom Twins on The WB network. The sitcom was canceled after one season, when the WB and UPN networks merged to become The CW and had to drop a number of shows. She also had a recurring role on the short-lived CBS sitcom The Class as Fern Velch.
Since 2007 she has appeared in many episodes of The Big Bang Theory on CBS as Leslie Winkle, a scientist friend (with benefits) to the character played by Johnny Galecki, who also portrayed her longtime boyfriend and husband David Healy on Roseanne. Starting with the second episode of the second season of The Big Bang Theory, Gilbert was elevated to the show's main cast, portraying once again a potential love interest of Galecki's character. At the end of January, it was announced that the writers didn't know how to write for her character full-time and her status was, once again, reduced from regular to recurring. She did make a guest shot for Sheldon's birthday party on the 200th TBBT episode.
Currently she is a co-host and executive producer of "The Talk" which premiered October 18, 2010. Gilbert appears alongside Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Aisha Tyler. On March 11, 2014, Mayim Bailik (Amy) visited "The Talk" and was interviewed by Sara Gilbert (Leslie Winkle). They both appeared on "The Lunar Excitation"; Amy's first appearance and Leslie's last.
After appearing in a sketch on "The Talk" with John Goodman revisiting their characters on "Rosanne", Sara helped revive the show and was telecast beginning in 2018 with fabulous ratings making it the number one show for ABC Television. Ratings stayed high, but the show was cancelled on 29 May 2018 after Rosanne continued to post derogatory tweets. The series was rebranded "The Conners" with most of the cast reprising their previous roles including Sara. 
==Film career==
Gilbert has appeared in two films alongside Drew Barrymore, in Poison Ivy in 1992 and Riding In Cars With Boys in 2001. She has had several other minor roles following Roseanne, including short film $30 (aka 30 Bucks) as part of the Boys Life 3 feature, and High Fidelity. She directed her own short film Persona Non Grata in 1998. As of 2015, she has appeared on over 700 episodes of The Talk. 
==Personal life==
In her teens, Gilbert became a vegetarian. Today, she supports numerous organizations such as PETA, Meals on Wheels, Freedom of Speech, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and AIDS Project Los Angeles. She stated on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in November 2008 that she has now adopted a vegan lifestyle.
Sara dated Roseanne boyfriend eventual husband and brief "Big Bang Theory" boyfriend Johnny Galecki for a short time before coming out to him in the late 90's to early 2010's. They remain close friends. She has been in a relationship with Allison Adler since 2002, and she came out as a lesbian in 2010. They have a son, Levi Hank, born in October 2004 and a daughter, Sawyer, born on August 2, 2007. Adler is the birth mother of Levi and Gilbert is the birth mother of Sawyer. Her and Allison have since split up.
== Appearances on The Big Bang Theory ==
*The Celebration Experimentation (2016)
*The Lunar Excitation (2010)
*The Cushion Saturation (2009)
*The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem (2008)
*The Barbarian Sublimation (2008)
*The Codpiece Topology (2008)
*The Bat Jar Conjecture (2008)
*The Hamburger Postulate (2007)
*The Fuzzy Boots Corollary (2007)
==Other Filmography==
Film 	Film 	Film 	Film
Year 	Film 	Role 	Notes
1992 	Poison Ivy 	Sylvie Cooper 	Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress
1994 	Dead Beat 	Martha 	
1997 	Walkin' on Sunshine: The Movie 	NeuralNurse 256 	
1998 	Desert Blue 	Sandy 	
1999 	Light It Up 	Lynn Sabatini 	
2000 	The Big Tease 	Gretle Dickens 	
2000 	High Fidelity 	Annaugh Moss 	
2000 	"Boys Life 3" 	Emily/Michelle 	Short filmSegment: $30
2001 	Riding in Cars with Boys 	Tina Barr 	
2004 	Laws of Attraction 	Gary Gadget's Assistant	cameo
Television 	Television 	Television 	Television
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1984 	Calamity Jane 	Jean 	TV-Movie
1988 	ABC Weekend Special 	Stephie 	Episode: "Runaway Ralph"
1988–19972018	Roseanne 	Darlene Conner-Healy 	224 episodesYoung Artist Award for Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television SeriesYoung Artist Award for Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television SeriesYoung Artist Award for Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television SeriesTV Land Award for Innovator AwardNominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy SeriesNominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy SeriesNominated — TV Land Award for Character Most Desperately in Need of a TimeoutNominated — Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series
Executive producer
1990 	Sudie and Simpson 	Sudie Harrigan 	TV Movie
Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Cable Special
1992 	The Simpsons 	Laura Powers 	Voice onlyEpisode: "New Kid on the Block"
1994 	Saturday Night Live 	Herself – Host 	Episode: "Sara Gilbert/Counting Crows"
1996 	ABC Afterschool Special 	Jessie 	Episode: "Me and My Hormones"
1997 	Broken Record 	 	TV Movie
2000–2001 	Welcome to New York 	Amy Manning 	13 episodes
2002 	24 	Paula Schaeffer 	5 episodes
2003 	Will & Grace 	Cheryl 	Episode: "Fanilow"
2004 	Strong Medicine 	Charlayne 	Episode: "Cinderella in Scrubs"
2004–2007 	ER 	Dr. Jane Figler 	15 episodes
2005 	In the Game 	 	Unsold TV-Pilot
2005 	The Clinic 	Mrs. Jennings 	Episode: 3.1
2005–2006 	Twins 	Mitchee Arnold 	18 episodes
2006 	Girls on the Bus 	Helen 	Episode: "Pilot"
2006–2007 	The Class 	Fern Velch 	6 episodes
2007 	Private Practice 	Kelly 	Episode: "In Which Sam Gets Taken For a Ride"
2007–2010 	The Big Bang Theory 	Leslie Winkle 	recurring season 1, season 2 regular and then back to recurring on season 3
2008 	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Caitlyn Ryan 	Episode: "Trials"
2010 	HawthoRNe 	Malia Price 	Episode: "No Excuses"Episode: "The Match"Episode: "A Mother Knows"
2010 	Grey's Anatomy 	Kim 	Episode: "Suicide is Painless"
2011–2019 	The Talk 	Herself/Host 	
2018–present 	The Conners 	Darlene Conner-Healy 	Main role
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