Laurie Metcalf is currently starring on Broadway as Juliana Smithton in The Other Place, but the Emmy winner and Tony nominee is well known for her roles as Jackie Harris on TV's Roseanne and, more recently, as Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. Metcalf plays the devout Texan mother of Jim Parsons' Dr. Sheldon Cooper on the popular series. Parsons, being the good son he plays on TV, headed to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:29PM on December 19, 2012