Biography
Melissa Rauch is an American actress and comedian. Born on 23 June 1980 in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, she graduated with a BFA from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She began performing stand-up comedy in Manhattan while at college and appeared as a contributor on VH1's Best Week Ever.
Rauch is best known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2009 to 2019. She starred in and co-wrote the 2015 sports comedy-drama The Bronze, and appeared in films including I Love You, Man (2009), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) and The Laundromat (2019), in which she played Melanie. She also voiced Harley Quinn in Batman and Harley Quinn (2017).
Rauch has continued working in television, including a recurring role in True Blood and a lead role as Abby Stone in the revival of Night Court from 2023.
