She's best known for being a sitcom queen, but Mayim Bialik's Hollywood journey began in her childhood . The San Diego native was only 11 when she played one of the Wallace kids in the horror film "Pumpkinhead," the directorial debut of special effects maestro Stan Winston. Her role is a minor one — she has a few lines of dialogue and can be seen taunting her little brother, Jimmy Joe Wallace (Joseph Piro), about the monstrous Pumpkinhead with the rest of her siblings. Little do they know that Pumpkinhead is about to go from being a silly urban legend to a brutal reality.

Bialik told AV Club that she ended up in "Pumpkinhead" as a newbie actor because her options were limited. "When I first got an agent, when I was 11 and a half or so — you really just go out and audition for whatever com

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