As “Young Sheldon” comes to an end after seven seasons here are the main characters and their “Big Bang Theory” counterparts.
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Jim Parsons won four Emmys playing Sheldon Cooper on “Big Bang Theory” for 12 seasons, from 2007 to 2019. Prequel “Young Sheldon” explores the Nobel Prize-winning Cooper’s East Texas childhood.
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Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik reprise their roles of Sheldon Cooper and wife Amy Farrah Fowler in the May 16, 2024, series finale of “Young Sheldon.”
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When “Young Sheldon” started, Iain Armitage, who plays Sheldon Cooper, was 9 years old — the same age as his onscreen character.
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Armitage is now 15, starring in the final Season 7 of “Young Sheldon.”
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Laurie Metcalf had a recurring role as Sheldon’s mother Mary Cooper in “Big Bang Theory.”
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Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) with his mother Mary Cooper (Laurie Metcalf) on “The Big Bang Theory.”
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Zoe Perry, who is Laurie Metcalf’s real-life daughter, plays Sheldon Cooper’s mother Mary in “Young Sheldon.”
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June Squibb played Constance “Connie” Tucker, better known as “Meemaw,” the mother of Mary Cooper and the maternal grandmother of Sheldon Cooper on “Big Bang Theory.”
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Annie Potts portrays Meemaw on “Young Sheldon.”
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Jerry O’Connell appeared on “Big Bang Theory” as Sheldon’s brother George Jr.
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Montana Jordan stars as George Jr. or Georgie in “Young Sheldon.” Jordan will star in a new spinoff, with his screen wife Mandy (Emily Osment) in “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” coming to CBS this fall.
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Courtney Henggeler played Sheldon’s sister Missy Cooper on “Big Bang Theory.”
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Raegan Revord stars as young Missy in “Young Sheldon.”
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