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Introduction
Melissa Rauch is an American actress. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, for which she was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013. From 2004 to 2008, Rauch worked as a regular contributor on the VH1 series Best Week Ever. Rauch’s other acting credits include playing Tina on the American remake of Kath & Kim and Summer on the HBO fantasy horror drama True Blood.
Rauch also starred in, co-wrote and co-produced the 2015 sports comedy-drama film The Bronze and provided the voice of the DC character Harley Quinn in the 2017 animated film Batman and Harley Quinn. Rauch also had supporting roles in I Love You, Man (2009), Ice Age: Collision Course and Flock of Dudes (both 2016), and Ode to Joy and The Laundromat (both 2019). She currently stars in the Night Court revival series playing Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of Judge Harold T. Stone from the original Night Court series.
Early life
| Name | Melissa Rauch |
| Net Worth | $20 million |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 42 years |
| Height | 1.59m |
Melissa Ivy Rauch was born on June 23, 1980 (age 42 years) in Marlboro, New Jersey, United States. She is the daughter of Susan and David Rauch, a Jewish family living in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. She has a younger brother, Ben. She developed an interest in acting while attending Marlboro High School. Her Bat Mitzvah had a “Melissa’s Comedy Club” theme. Rauch graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City in 2002.
Career
Melissa Rauch began acting in the early 2000s. Some of Rauch’s early work was as a regular contributor to VH1’s Best Week Ever television show. In 2009, Rauch began playing the recurring role of Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, a co-worker of Penny’s at The Cheesecake Factory who began to date Howard Wolowitz, in the third se ason of TV’s The Big Bang Theory. The following season her character became Howard’s fiancée and Rauch was promoted to a series regular. The characters married in the season five finale.
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Rauch and fellow cast members of The Big Bang Theory in December 2011 received the first of four nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Other acting credits include True Blood (on which she had a recurring role in 2010 as Summer, a girl who likes Hoyt), The Office, the American remake of the Australian TV series Kath & Kim, Wright v Wrong, and the film I Love You, Man.
She is also part of the cast of the comedic stage show The Realest Real Housewives with Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael, Jessica St. Clair and Danielle Schneider. The show began running at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2011. Rauch co-wrote and co-produced the film The Bronze, in which she starred as Hope Ann Greggory, a bronze medal-winning gymnast clinging to her glory days of 12 years earlier. It opened the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Variety said, “Rauch, who co-wrote the screenplay with her husband Winston, has never carried a film before. But she delivers the best breakthrough comedic performance by an actress since Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids.” Sony Pictures Classics acquired the film in September 2015. In 2017, Rauch voiced Harley Quinn in the animated film Batman and Harley Quinn and she voiced Light Thief in “Light Riders” from Blaze and the Monster Machines.
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Melissa Rauch currently stars in the Night Court revival series playing Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of Judge Harold T. Stone and Gina Stone from the original Night Court series. Season 1 premiered on NBC on January 17, 2023, and is co-produced by Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston Beigel, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television.
Husband
Melissa Rauch is currently married to Winston Beigel, they had their wedding in 2007. Her husband is a writer and collaborated with her on The Miss Education of Jenna Bush and other projects. Rauch announced that she was pregnant on July 11, 2017, and disclosed that she’d had a miscarriage previously. On December 4, 2017, Rauch announced on Instagram that she had given birth to a girl named Sadie. On May 4, 2020, Rauch announced the birth of their son, Brooks. As of March 2023, Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston Beigel are still married.
Melissa Rauch net worth
How much is Melissa Rauch worth? Melissa Rauch net worth is estimated at around $20 million. Her main source of income is her primary work as an actress. Melissa Rauch’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $2.5 million dollars annually. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and most influential actresses in the United States. She stands at an appealing height of 1.59m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.