Actress Melissa Ivy Rauch was born in the United States on June 23, 1980. She is well-known for her role as Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, for which she received a 2013 Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Rauch contributed regularly to the VH1 programme Best Week Ever from 2004 through 2008.

Moreover, Rauch had roles in the American adaptation of Kath & Kim’s Tina and the HBO fantasy horror series True Blood’s Summer.

Melissa Rauch parents: Meet Susan Rauch, David Rauch

David and Susan Rauch, a Jewish family from Marlboro Township, New Jersey, are Rauch’s parents. Ben is her younger brother.  While attending Marlboro High School, she became interested in performing.

The theme of her Bat Mitzvah was “Melissa’s Comedy Club”.  Rauch earned his diploma from Marymount Manhattan College in 2002.

As a regular contributor to VH1’s Greatest Week Ever television programme, Rauch did some of his early work.

In the third season of the television series The Big Bang Theory, Rauch started portraying the recurring role of Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, Penny’s coworker at The Cheesecake Factory who started dating Howard Wolowitz.