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 in The Big Bang Theory and
Iain Armitage in Young Sheldon (with Parsons as the latter series'
narrator). For his portrayal, Parsons has won four Primetime Emmy
Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Award, and two Critics' Choice
Television Awards. 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.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 Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). 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).He has a genius-level IQ of 187 (in Young Sheldon his mother
says that he has the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking),
but displays a fundamental lack of social skills, a tenuous
understanding of humor, and difficulty recognizing irony and sarcasm
in other people, although he himself often employs them. He exhibits
highly idiosyncratic behavior and a general lack of humility, empathy,
and toleration. These characteristics provide the majority of the
humor involving him, which has caused him to be described as the
show's breakout character. Some viewers have asserted that Sheldon's
personality is consistent with Asperger syndrome and
obsessiveâ€"compulsive disorder. Co-creator Bill Prady has stated that
Sheldon's character was neither conceived nor developed with regard to
any of these traits, although Parsons has said that in his opinion,
Sheldon "couldn't display more traits" of Asperger's. Sheldon Cooper Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter