Sara Gilbert was born Sara Rebecca Abeles in Santa Monica, California on January 29, 1975, and is an American actress best known for her role as Darlene Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and its spin-off, The Conners (2018–present).
She is also the creator and former co-host of the CBS daytime talk show The Talk and had a recurring role as Leslie Winkle on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory.
Gilbert is the daughter of Barbara Cowan and Harold Abeles. Both her parents are Jewish. Her maternal grandfather was The Honeymooners creator Harry Crane.
Gilbert has two older half-siblings and two older adoptive siblings. Her two adoptive siblings on her mother’s side, Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert, were stars of Little House on the Prairie.
In 1984, Sara took the last name Gilbert from Paul Gilbert, her mother’s first husband. Gilbert also has two siblings on her father’s side, sister Patrice and brother Joseph.
Gilbert graduated from Yale University in 1997, with honors, majoring in art with an emphasis on photography.
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Sara Gilbert was born Sara Rebecca Abeles in Santa Monica, California on January 29, 1975, and is an American actress best known for her role as Darlene Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and its spin-off, The Conners (2018–present).
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Gilbert appeared in two films alongside Drew Barrymore,
Poison Ivy in 1992 and Riding in Cars with Boys in 2001. Gilbert also had a feature role in Light It Up in 1999.
She has had several minor roles following Roseanne, including the short film $30 (aka 30 Bucks) as part of the Boys Life 3 feature, and High Fidelity.
She directed her short film Persona Non-Grata in 1998. In 2000, Gilbert appeared in a production of The Hot L Baltimore as part of the Williamstown (Mass.) theater festival
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Gilbert regained a regular spot on prime-time television in the fall of 2005 in the sitcom Twins on The WB network.
She also had a recurring role on the short-lived CBS sitcom The Class as Fern Velch.
From 2007 to 2010, Gilbert appeared in episodes of the CBS TV series The Big Bang Theory as Leslie Winkle, a scientist friend of Leonard Hofstadter played by Johnny Galecki, who had previously played Gilbert’s love interest David Healy on Roseanne.
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In 2001, Gilbert began a relationship with television producer Ali Adler. They have two children—a son, Levi Hank, born to Adler in October 2004, and a daughter, Sawyer Jane, born to Gilbert in August 2007.
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Sara Gilbert was born Sara Rebecca Abeles in Santa Monica, California on January 29, 1975, and is an American actress best known for her role as Darlene Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and its spin-off, The Conners (2018–present).
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