ACTRESS Mayim Bialik will guest host Jeopardy! from May 31 to June 11.
The Big Bang Theory star currently produces the series Call Me Kat on Fox.
Mayim Bialik, 45, is a neuroscientist, author, and actress.
She took a 12-year break from acting to attend college at the University of California, Los Angeles to pursue a degree in neuroscience in 2000.
Seven years later, Bialik received her doctorate in neuroscience.
Bialik dished to BrainandLife about the inspiration to pursue a degree in neuroscience, crediting her biology tutor as a major player, saying: “I was a diligent student, but science didn’t come naturally to me.
“Because of that, I didn’t think it was open to me as a career.
Adding: “I specifically fell in love with the action potential and the electrical properties of the neuron when I was in my first semester at UCLA.
“I love understanding the way we think and feel and communicate—and neuroscience is the science of all that.”
She later played neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2010 to 2019.
Bialik dished to People about the opportunity to host Jeopardy!, saying: “I think also there’s a lot of iconic pressure. When I was looking over some of the scripts, I was thinking, how would Alex [Trebek] say this?
“And that’s probably not who I’m expected to be, Alex Trebek, but in my head, I am Alex Trebek – that’s who I want to be.”
She added: “It wasn’t like, a cultural cornerstone of my parents’ and my life growing up, but obviously I’ve watched it.
“I’ve been an answer, I think two or three times, which is crazy.”
She said stepping up to the podium will be one of the highlights of her career.
“I’ve been saying it’s really one of the most iconic things I think that I’m ever going to do in my career,” Bialik adds.
“It’s going to feel like Forrest Gump, like I’ve been inserted into the Jeopardy! Set.”
Bialik has a reported net worth of $25million.
She has been starring in Hollywood productions since she was a child, appearing in the 1988 horror movie Pumpkinhead.
The actress also went on to star in all 114 episodes of NBC’s Blossom in the 1990s.
Her show, Call Me Kat was renewed for a second season in May 2021.
