Like her older sister Melissa (Little House on the Prairie), actress Sara Gilbert grew up on a television series, in this case, the long-running ABC sitcom Roseanne (1988-1997). She and her sister and her older brother, Jonathon Gilbert, are the third generation of a showbiz family. Her grandfather, Harry Crane, was a writer for The Honeymooners, her grandmother, Julia Crane, was a former Miss Brooklyn and a dancer, and her mother is a producer and talent manager. Gilbert made her professional debut in a television commercial at age six, and from there appeared in the television series Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang (1982). She then played a small role in the made-for-TV movie Calamity Jane, which starred Jane Alexander. Gilbert's career slowed down after that and she did not appear on television until 1988 when she appeared in Runaway Ralph as part of the ABC Weekend Special. As Darlene Connor in Roseanne, Gilbert believably played a cynical, smart-mouthed, but sensitive foil for Roseanne. Gilbert showed versatility as a confused Daddy's girl who is victimized by a calculating Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy (1989) and as a Southern child with a dark secret who is befriended by a gentle black man in the well-wrought Sudie and Simpson (1990). Gilbert has been twice nominated for an Emmy and has won three Youth in Film Awards. During the last couple seasons of Roseanne, Gilbert began attending Yale University where she studied art and photography. She has also been an avid supporter for various environmental causes through her affiliation with Earth Communications Office (ECO).
She stayed away from acting for the most part until 2007 when she began making occasional appearances on the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory often playing opposite her former Roseanne co-star Johnny Galecki. In 2010 she was hired as one of the hosts of The Talk, a knockoff of The View, and went public with her homosexuality that same year.
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The 12th Annual A Home for the Holidays
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The Talk [TV Series]
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Die Mommie Die
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Riding in Cars With Boys
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2001 | |||
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High Fidelity
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2000 | |||
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$30
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1999 | |||
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Light It Up
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1999 | |||
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The Big Tease
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1999 | |||
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Desert Blue
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1998 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 09
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1997 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 07
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1995 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 08
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1995 | |||
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Dead Beat
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1994 | |||
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Saturday Night Live: Sara Gilbert
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1994 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 06
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1993 | |||
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Poison Ivy
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1992 | |||
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Roseanne: Don't Make Me Over
Screen Story |
1992 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 05
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1992 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 04
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1991 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 03
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1990 | |||
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Sudie and Simpson
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1990 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 02
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1989 | |||
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Roseanne: Season 01
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1988 | |||
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Runaway Ralph
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1988 | |||
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Calamity Jane
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1984 |
















