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Melissa Rauch has more in common with her Cheesecake Factory waitress-turned-PhD character Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz that you'd think — but it's not the degree. Rauch is a born-and-bred Jersey girl, which means she spent a decent chunk of her formative years at the mall. Though she hasn't explicitly stated an affinity for overpriced flatbreads and cheese-based desserts (Cheesecake Factory is a mall staple in the Garden State), she did measure her success in Wetzel's Pretzels rather than dollar bills.
"I remembered, when I first had just a little bit of success on TV, I would come home and the guy at Wetzel's Pretzels would give me one for free," she told NJ.com. "And then that show got cancelled, and when I came back — well, if I wanted a pretzel now, I had to pay for it. And it was devastating."
Thankfully, Rauch did have a college education to fall back on. According to the same outlet, the star had a typical suburban Jersey childhood — she went to the shore, took dance lessons, and attended Brookdale Community College's arts camp. When she graduated from Marlboro High, she went to Marymount Manhattan for acting, where she developed her writing chops. This led her to create her one-woman comedy show, The Miss Education of Jenna Bush. The show was a hit, she moved to LA, and the acting jobs — from episodes of True Blood to an I Love You, Man bit part — started trickling in.
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