James Joseph Parsons

Jim Parsons - American actor, whose popularity brought roles in TV series. The sympathy of the majority of viewers was won by the brilliant theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper from the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", the main source of jokes in the film. When Parsons familiarized himself with the script, he found some resemblance to the character:

Fortunately, in life Jim is not a copy of his hero, he is perfectly able to communicate, and with personal life all right.

Jim Parsons was born in Houston, Texas. His father, Milton Joseph, owned his own repair shop and Judy's mother, Ann McKnight, a junior teacher. Jim has a sister, Julie Ann, who followed in her mother's footsteps and became a teacher.

As a child, Parsons was a shy but sympathetic child. Study at Klein Oak school was given without problems. After graduation, Jim was presented with an unusual certificate "The friendliest classmate." Oddly enough, the boy, shy in everyday life, was transformed when he went on stage for school productions. At the age of 6, he played the role of a bird Cola-Cola in the children's play "The Elephant" based on the fairy tale by Rudyard Kipling and since then was sure that he will be only an actor.

After receiving his degree, Jim enrolled at the University of Houston in The Dramatic Arts. Parsons was not required to take university subjects and standard performances. Therefore, a young man with several classmates organizes a student troupe "Hell's Grooms" and puts 17 additional productions.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1999, Parsons does not consider his education to be over and goes to the University of San Diego, where he is studying for a new 2-year program created by the university in conjunction with the Old Globe Theater. The program was designed for seven of the best graduate students in the United States, and Jim became one of them.

In 2001, Parsons moved to New York, where he performs on Broadway, and also makes commercials. On the actor's account commercials such as zuiznos, Intel, FedEx Express and Arby's. In addition, Jim participated in the social charity action "Fighting Cancer."

Jim Parsons's creative biography developed gradually and for a long time did not shine bright roles. Even in his youth, the actor got strange or inadequate characters. His debut on the screen was on the television series "Ed", where he played a timid young man Chet in one of the series.

Then in Parsons' filmography there was the French comedy "Happy End", the melodrama "The Great New Miracle" with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Olympia Dukakis, the drama "Heights" with Glenn Close and James Marsden. In the tragicomedy "Country of Gardens" Jim played an old friend of the main character, a Star Wars fan and a Renaissance explorer.

Romantic comedy "10 Steps to Success" gave the actor a cameo role, in which he once again demonstrated how cute can be not quite normal in the conventional sense people. In "Big Year," Parsons' character participated in an incomprehensible majority of the migrant bird counting competition. In "School of Rascals" and "Eureka" his characters are also, in general, unmemorable.

The first major role in the comedy television series "The Big Bang Theory" brought the actor worldwide fame and great popularity. Filming began in 2007 and ended in 2019. In the wake of the popularity of this movement "The Big Bang Theory" gained an army of fans, instantly spread on the Internet memes, quotes and humorous videos.

The main characters of the first seasons - two neighbors-scientists, renting one apartment, and an aspiring actress living next door. Jim Parsons plays Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper, a guy smart, but terribly boring, does not understand jokes, does not even have the rudiments of empathy and does not go to compromise.

Cooper's neighbor, also Dr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, played by Johnny Galecki, is shy and much more pleasant in character. Leonard is in love with a neighbor Penny (Kaley Cuoco), but because of the different circle of communication, complexes of the former school loser and interventions Sheldon courtship attempts look comical.

The main characters of the series include Leonard's friends, also scientists Howard Joel Wolowitz and Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali, played by Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayar respectively. The selection of actors is such that against the background of most rather short characters tall and thin Parsons (height 186 cm) looks even more fun.

The first seasons are built around attempts of friends-geeks to find girls, get to "Comic-cons", buy rare comics or get scientific grants. Since Season 5, the television series has been gradually changing. The main characters get girlfriends. Leonard achieves Penny, and even the unsociable Sheldon meets a dream girl in the person of Amy Farah Fowler, played by Mayim Bialik. Compounding the situation is that the loser Lobelas Howard even married.

In the plot there were more clarifications of relationships, and problems began to be built around family life and compromises in couples. Fans were ambivalent about the changes. Some lamented the loss of Geek jokes, others rejoiced that the series develops, not repeats itself.

Jim Parsons' comedic talent was fully revealed in this role, which was repeatedly noted by film critics and audiences. The actor won a Golden Globe award in 2011 and emmy and Television Critics Association awards in 2010 and 2011. In addition, Jim has been nominated for Sputnik more than once.

On the big screen, Parsons continued to play supporting roles. Jim starred in the tragicomedy "I Wish I Could Be Here" as a close friend of the main character, dreaming of acting fame. The key character is presented by the director and the author of the film script. The main female role was played by Kate Hudson.

In the drama "Hidden Figures" the actor received a minor role in his career - an engineer-researcher of outer space. At the center of the story is the work of black female mathematicians, whose calculations helped John Glenn become the first American astronaut to make an orbital space flight.

The film is lavishly flavored with scenes illustrating segregation. The main roles were considered viola Davis and Oprah Winfrey, eventually settled on Janelle Monae, Taraji Henson and Octavia Spencer. The ensemble of the film was awarded the Sputnik Awards, the Board of Film Critics and the Screen Actors Guild of America. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 3 nominations and 2 at the Golden Globes.

Another recognized project is the AIDS drama Ordinary Heart with Julia Roberts, Alfred Molina and Mark Ruffalo. Almost all the actors, including Jim, had prototypes - real people trying to draw the attention of the authorities to the plague of the 20th century. The film, shot by Ryan Murphy, author of "Glee" and "Eat, Pray, Love," won the Critics' Choice Television Awards and the Emmys.

Parsons also played Walter's biggest fan of the Muppets in the movie "The Muppets". In addition, the man often takes part in the voiceover of animated films. His voices are spoken by the characters of cartoons and animated series "Griffins", "Superhero Squad", "Glenn Martin", "Puppies from shelter number 17", "Daredevil Kik Butowski" and "Home".

In 2015, Parsons was given the lead role in the feature film. This picture was the horror "Visions." The actor, who played the doctor, appears in the frame briefly, when the heroine Isla Fisher, which comes visions, needs help.

In January 2017, in an interview for Empire, Jim Parsons talked about the plans of the creators of "The Big Bang Theory" to release a spin-off of the series. According to the actor, the screenwriters have created elaborate characters that are offensive not to reveal to the end, and enough material for a new film. The spin-off tells the story of Sheldon Cooper's childhood. Actors of the original series do not participate in the filming, and Parsons even recommended the future performer of the role of little Sheldon not to borrow and copy from "TTV", and play in his own style.

In the final project, Jim acted as a storyteller and producer. Casting for the role of the prodigy was a young artist Ian Armitage, who had time to prove himself in the drama film "Big Little Lies" in the form of the heroine's son Shailene Woodley. The creators of "Sheldon's Childhood" boy conquered the performance of a test task.

It was necessary to record a video to present scientific work to the Nobel Prize committee. Ian, according to the director, looked in the frame "extremely arrogant, which is very similar to the character's character." It's hard to judge whether Sheldon's child will be as successful as an adult, but the sitcom has continued until 2020.

The main character of the drama "The Guy like Jake" was a 4-year-old boy, savvy not for years, but at the same time plunging parents into a stupor by the fact that he likes to dress up as a girl and is interested in dolls. The situation can not cope with the father-psychotherapist, the role of which went to Jim Parsons. His mother played Claire Danes. The problem raised in the film, the media wrote, is relevant because there are many images of children of celebrities, who in a conscious age can not determine the gender.

Jim Parsons is an openly gay man, which he announced at the 2012 Emmy Awards. The actor lives in Los Angeles with her husband Todd Spivak, who works as an art director in a California studio. Young people played a wedding in New York in May 2017 according to Jewish canons, and before that for 14 years did not disclose the relationship and succeeded in conspiracy: the press does not have photos of the period where Parsons kisses a guy.

Jim's life is watched by millions of followers on Instagram. The main hobbies in the actor's life - playing the piano and watching sports on TV. Especially Parsons loves tennis, and also tries not to miss the matches of the baseball championship.

In November 2016, Jim topped forbes magazine's list of the highest-paid television actors. 2, 3rd and 4th places are also occupied by colleagues on the TV series "The Big Bang Theory." The celebrity made a fortune, earning $1 million per episode. For example, from June 2014 to June 2015, his bank account was replenished by $29 million, and this is not counting advertising contracts and performances on Broadway.

However, in 2017 Simon Helberg, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayar and Parsons made concessions and agreed to the amount of $900,000. for the series. The star's decision was made in favor of Mayim Bialik and Melissa Roych, whose fee was $200,000. The top five agreed to have the two actresses earn $450,000 each. per episode.

In 2015, Jim got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a couple of years later - his own show on SiriusXM radio called "Jim Parsons is too stupid for politics." The date of the first broadcast coincided with the day of Donald Trump's inauguration.

In early 2019, the premiere of the biographical thriller "Beautiful, Bad, Evil" took place. Such epithets awarded a law student Ted Bundy, who turned into a serial killer. The U.S. police attributed a hundred victims to the maniac, he confessed to 36 crimes. In addition to Jim Parsons as the prosecutor, the film stars Kai Smaderio, Lily Collins, John Malkovich and zac Efron in the title role.

The participation of the latter caused the greatest indignation of a number of viewers, who believed that the Hollywood handsome romanticizes the identity of the criminal. And other scripted moves, as if by accident, make the audience sympathize with Bundy.

The release date and cast of the series "Family Gene", co-produced by Parsons and Spivak, have not yet been announced. It is known that the picture in the genre of medical procedure is removed from the memoirs of a woman who has identified the primary gene mutation. Each series is a separate clinical case, which is dealt with by two sisters, a geneticist and a surgeon, the carriers of the deadly disease themselves.

2004 - "Country of Gardens"

2006 - "10 Steps to Success"

2011 - "Eureka"

2007-2019 - "The Big Bang Theory"

2011 - "Big Year"

2014 - "I Wish I Was Here"

2014 - "Ordinary Heart"

2014 - "Visions"

2016 - "Hidden Figures"

2017 - "Sheldon's Childhood"

2018 - "A child like Jake"

2019 - "Beautiful, Bad, Evil"

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