# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/winston-beigel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:11.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/winston-beigel"
name: "Winston Beigel"
slug: "winston-beigel"
description: "Melissa Ivy Rauch is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2009 to 2019, for which she was nominated for the Critics Choice Television Award in 2013. She starred in and executive produced three seasons of the revival of Night Court."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nGfpNBcKkcOpRJLQBf8r3zo1v4t.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.77
  momentum:             5.615216960570635
  historical:           2.208856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  71
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3440862/"
    handle:    "nm3440862"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Rauch"
    title: "Winston Rauch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64345406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1394926"
    title: "Winston Rauch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations