Bialik has had a lengthy career in TV, starting when she was just 11 years old and taking off when she was 14.
Among a variety of shows, arguably her biggest pre-Big Bang role was the titular teen on Blossom, but unlike a lot of other child stars, Bialik looks back fondly at her young career and appreciates it as one of a simpler time.
While Mayim Bialik is most well known to newer generations as Amy Fowler, the crazy smart partner of the perhaps equally intelligent (if more awkward) Sheldon Cooper on the wildly successful CBS series The Big Bang Theory, those of us with a longer lifespan already knew her well by that point.