One Week From Unemployment to a Breakthrough Role — Melissa Rauch Tells It All

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One Week From Unemployment to a Breakthrough Role — Melissa Rauch Tells It All

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Long before the laugh track, the iconic glasses, and one of TV’s most recognizable sitcom voices, Melissa Rauch was facing a very different reality—one that almost no one associates with a star of The Big Bang Theory.

Right Place, Wrong Moment

Rauch doesn’t sugarcoat how close she came to walking away.

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Just one week before landing the role of Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, she was at the unemployment office, driving around Los Angeles in tears. “I was a fan of the show before I even auditioned,” she recalled. The role was supposed to be a one-off guest appearance.

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