Jim Parsons
Born 24/03/1973
(51 years old)
Houston, Texas, USA
Biography
Jim Parsons has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, and received Screen Actors Guild Award and People's Choice Award nominations, for his starring performance as Sheldon Cooper on one of television's Top 10 series, The Big Bang Theory. The acclaimed show was back for an eighth season in the fall of 2014.
Mr. Parsons received a Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut as Tommy Boatwright in Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe's staging of Larry Kramer's classic play The Normal Heart, starring opposite Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey, and Joe Mantello. The production won multiple Tony Awards, and with his fellow actors from the ensemble he shared the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. He re-created the role of Tommy for the HBO telefilm directed by Ryan Murphy from Mr. Kramer's own screenplay adaptation, joining Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer, and Taylor Kitsch in the cast. The latter feature aired in May 2014.
He returned to Broadway to play Elwood P. Dowd in a revival of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey, directed by Scott Ellis. Mr. Parsons has performed in many other stage productions, including The Castle, with the Manhattan Ensemble Theater; The Countess, at the Globe Theatre; and The Tempest and As You Like It, both for the Houston Shakespeare Festival. He earned a Masters in Fine Arts degree from the Old Globe Theatre/University of San Diego; and a BA from the University of Houston.
Mr. Parsons' movies include James Bobin's The Muppets, playing in the sequence showcasing the Academy Award-winning song "Man or Muppet;" Wish I Was Here director Zach Braff's previous feature, Garden State; David Frankel's The Big Year; Chris Terrio's Heights; Todd Phillips' School for Scoundrels; Kevin Connolly's Gardener of Eden; and Danny Leiner's The Great New Wonderful.
He can soon be heard as a lead voice in Tim Johnson's animated fantasy adventure Home, opening nationwide in March 2015. Based on Adam Rex's award-winning book The True Meaning of Smekday, the DreamWorks Animation feature also counts among its cast Rihanna and Steve Martin. He also completed production on Kevin Greutert's thriller Visions, with Isla Fisher, Gillian Jacobs, and Eva Longoria.
Actor
Movies | |
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2022 |
Spoiler Alert |
2020 |
The Boys in the Band |
2019 |
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile |
2018 |
A Kid Like Jake |
2017 |
Michael Jackson's Halloween (TV movie) |
2016 |
Hidden Figures |
2015 |
Home |
Visions |
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2014 |
The Normal Heart (TV movie) |
Wish I Was Here |
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2012 |
Sunset Stories |
2011 |
The Big Year |
The Muppets |
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2007 |
Gardener of Eden |
2006 |
10 Items or Less |
School for Scoundrels |
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The Big Bang Theory: Unaired Pilot (TV movie) |
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2005 |
Heights |
The Great New Wonderful |
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2004 |
Garden State |
2003 |
Nowhere to Go But Up |
Documentaries | |
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2018 |
The 2000s (series) |
The Platinum Age of Television (E01) |
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2017 |
First in Human (series) - narrator |
2016 |
Behind Closed Doors (series) - a.f. |
For the Love of Spock |
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2013 |
Who Do You Think You Are? (series) |
Jim Parsons (S04E08) |
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2012 |
Family Guy: 200 Episodes Later (TV movie) - a.f. |
The Big Bang Theory: Access All Areas (TV movie) |
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The Big Bang Theory: It All Started with a Big Bang (TV movie) |
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2011 |
The Big Bang Theory Live! (TV movie) |
2010 |
The Big Bang Theory: Take Out with the Cast of the Big Bang Theory |
2009 |
The Big Bang Theory: Physicist to the Stars |
The Big Bang Theory: Testing the Infinite Hilarity Hyphothesis of the Big Bang Theory |
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2008 |
The Big Bang Theory: Quantum Mechanics of the Big Bang Theory |
2004 |
Who Do You Think You Are? (series) |
Short | |
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2014 |
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (TV movie) |
Producer
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2022 |
Spoiler Alert |
2018 |
A Kid Like Jake |
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2017 |
Young Sheldon |
Pilot (S01E01) |
Performer
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