For his portrayal, Parsons won four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Award, and two Critics' Choice Television Awards.

Dr. Sheldon Cooper is a former senior theoretical particle physicist at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on string theory and its alter ego M-theory.

Meet a child genius named Sheldon Cooper (already seen as an adult in The Big Bang Theory (2007)) and his family. Some unique challenges face Sheldon, who is socially impaired.

Dr. Sheldon Cooper BS, MS, MA, PhD, and ScD is a theoretical physicist at Caltech who is married to neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, with whom he now lives in Apartment 4B after years of sharing an …

May 10, 2025 · Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory is based on a real person, and that same person also inspired another character on the show.

Apr 16, 2025 · Jim Parsons won four Emmys for his portrayal of quirky super-genius Sheldon Cooper before Iain Armitage carried the mantle as Sheldon’s younger counterpart. Young Sheldon follows his...

Apr 19, 2025 · Young Sheldon isn't so young anymore. The Big Bang Theory prequel series — which ran for seven seasons before its series finale in May 2024 — followed Sheldon Cooper and his family …

The character's childhood is the focus of Young Sheldon, in which he grows up as a child prodigy in East Texas with his family: twin sister Missy Cooper, father George Cooper Sr., brother George Cooper …

Instead of the adult genius we knew from The Big Bang Theory, we met Sheldon Cooper as a nine-year-old boy in East Texas, armed with brilliance far beyond his years but still struggling with...

Parsons was cast as Sheldon Cooper, a physicist with social apathy who frequently belittles his friends. The role required Parsons to "rattle off line after line of tightly composed, rhythmic dialogue, as well …