Mayim Bialik, star of the 90s sitcom Blossom, is looking for an acting comeback and she told our Steve Thompson she would love to star in her own show again. Bialik, who earned a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, has continued to act in small roles since Blossom and she appears on Saving Grace Tuesday  (10 p.m. ET on TNT) as a Hasidic Jew. “I got the audition and I had just been made over by What Not to Wear, so I had all these tight skirts. It’s good I kept one long one since I’m playing this Hasidic character.”
Her visit with WNTW's Stacy London  and Clinton Kelly was prompted by Bialik’s hiatus from acting, during which she had two children and got that PhD.  “People cared a lot less about what I looked like in the neuroscience world. Nobody was blogging about my shoes or my eyebrows or anything.” So why did she return to the ever image-conscience life of acting? “I wanted to see what it was like as an adult, to give it a full shot,” she says. Besides, acting allows her to spend more time with her kids than being a neuroscience research professor.
Bialik has a recurring role on ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager, but says she’s open to anything. “At this point I’m just doing the next indicated step, which is when auditions come in, I take them. Hopefully, someone will think it will be interesting to do a show about a quirky woman, but for now I’m just auditioning.”