Sara Gilbert

Sara Gilbert
Gilbert at Comedies Premiere Party Area on La Cienega, Los Angeles - Sept. 17, 2008.
Born	Sara Rebecca Abeles (1975-01-29) January 29, 1975 (age 41) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Linda Perry (m. 2014)
Partner(s)	Allison Adler (2001-11)
Children	3

Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles; January 29, 1975) is an American actress, best known for her role as Darlene Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne from 1988 to 1997, for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She is also known as co-host and creator of the CBS daytime talk show The Talk and for her recurring role as Leslie Winkle on CBS's The Big Bang Theory.

Gilbert was born Sara Rebecca Abeles in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Barbara Cowan (née Crane) and Harold Abeles. Both her parents are Jewish. Her mother is the daughter of The Honeymooners creator Harry Crane. Gilbert has four older siblings. Her two older siblings on her mother's side, Melissa Gilbert and Jonathan Gilbert, were stars of Little House on the Prairie. In 1984, Sara took the last name Gilbert for Paul Gilbert, her mother's first husband. Gilbert also has two older siblings on her father's side, sister Patrice and brother Joseph.

Gilbert graduated from Yale University in 1997 with honors, majoring in Art with an emphasis on Photography.

Gilbert decided at age six that she wanted to be an actress after her older sister, Melissa Gilbert, got a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Following appearances in television movies and a commercial for Kool-Aid, at 13 she landed the role of Darlene Conner, the sarcastic middle child, in Roseanne. Sara was a cast member in the show's nine-year run (1988–97), for which she wrote a fourth-season episode story (the teleplay was written by the Guild Writers for the show) called "Don't Make Me Over". Her contribution was considered so important to Roseanne that the show's producers juggled storylines and taping schedules to allow her to study at Yale University while remaining in the cast, shooting remote segments of Darlene at a soundstage in New York.