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Mayim Hoya Bialik (born December 12, 1975) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early-1990s NBC sitcom Blossom. Bialik started her career as a child actress in the late 1980s. Her early roles included the horror film Pumpkinhead, her first acting job; and guest appearances on The Facts of Life and Beauty and the Beast. In 1988, she appeared in Beaches (1988), playing Bette Midler`s character as a young girl. She was also featured in the video clip of Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson. Her greatest success to date came in 1991 when Blossom joined NBC`s Monday night lineup following The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Both shows enjoyed popularity, especially among younger viewers, for the first couple of years of their respective runs. Blossom aired until 1995.

At the end of Blossom, she chose to attend UCLA, despite having been accepted at both Harvard and Yale. She stated that she wanted to stay close to her parents and did not want to move to the East Coast. She earned a bachelor`s degree in 2000 in neuroscience, Hebrew, and Jewish studies, and went on to the PhD. program in neuroscience. A 2002 interview stated that Bialik is now involved in Conservative Judaism. She continues to study Judaism with the help of her Partners in Torah partner, Allison Josephs. She took a break from studies in 2005 to return to acting. Bialik completed her PhD in 2008, but is not pursuing an academic career in the near future; her dissertation was an investigation of Prader-Willi syndrome. She married Michael Stone on August 31, 2003, in a Victorian themed ceremony with traditional Jewish customs. They have two sons together; Miles Stone was born on October 10, 2005, and Frederick Heschel Stone was born August 15, 2008. She is a celebrity spokesperson for the Holistic Moms Network.

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