Sheldon

Sheldon Lee Cooper, B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the 2007–2019 CBS television series The Big Bang Theory and the titular main protagonist of its 2017–2024 spinoff series Young Sheldon, portrayed by actors Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage respectively. For his portrayal, Parsons 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, in which he grows up as a child prodigy in Medford, Texas with his family: his twin sister Missy Cooper, his father George Cooper Sr., his older brother George Marshall Cooper Jr., his mother Mary Cooper, and his grandmother, Constance Tucker.