(In The Big Bang Theory, it is said that his and Leonard's IQs add up to 360, and Leonard says his is 173. In season 10, Sheldon moves across the hall with his girlfriend Amy Farrah Fowler ( Mayim Bialik), in the former apartment of Leonard's wife Penny ( Kaley Cuoco). The adult Sheldon is a senior theoretical physicist at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and for the first ten seasons of The Big Bang Theory shares an apartment with his colleague and best friend, Leonard Hofstadter ( Johnny Galecki) they are also friends and coworkers with Howard Wolowitz ( Simon Helberg) and Rajesh Koothrappali ( Kunal Nayyar).
The character's childhood is the focus of Young Sheldon: the series' first season is set in 1989 when nine-year-old prodigy Sheldon has skipped ahead five grades, to start high school alongside his older brother. For his portrayal, Parsons won four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Award, and two Critics' Choice Television Awards. Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D., is a fictional character in the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory and its spinoff series Young Sheldon, portrayed by actors Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage respectively (with Parsons as the latter series' narrator).
