Sara Gilbert

About

Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles, January 29, 1975) is an American actress best known for portraying Darlene Conner on Roseanne (1988–97; 2018) and its sequel, The Conners (2018–25), a role for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She created and was a co-host of the CBS daytime talk show The Talk, and had the recurring role of 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 maternal grandfather was The Honeymooners co-creator Harry Crane. Gilbert has two older half-siblings and two older adopted siblings. Her adopted 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 from Paul Gilbert, her mother’s first husband. Gilbert also has two 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.

Following appearances in television movies…