Actors Kaley Cuoco Sweeting and Ben Stiller are celebrating their birthdays today, November 30.
Kaley Cuoco Sweeting, 29
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Actress Kaley Cuoco Sweeting turns 29 today. Sweeting played tennis from age 3 to 16, and was once a regionally ranked amateur player. Sweeting made her film debut in the 1995 action thriller Virtuosity. She went on to appear in the CBS sitcom Ladies Man and in 2000, she portrayed former Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick in the TV movie Growing Up Brady and starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Alley Cats Strike.
In 2002, Cuoco earned a starring role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. ABC cancelled the series in 2005 due to low ratings. Sweeting played Billie Jenkins in the eighth season of Charmed.
Sweeting married professional tennis player Ryan Sweeting in December 2013. She currently plays the role of Penny in the successful CBS comedy The Big Band Theory.
Ben Stiller, 49
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Actor, comedian and filmmaker Ben Stiller turns 49 today. After beginning his acting career on stage, Stiller had his own show entitled The Ben Stiller Show, which he produced and hosted himself. He began acting in films, making his directorial debut with Reality Bites. Throughout his career he has written, starred in, directed, and/or produced more than 50 films, including Zoolander, There's Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, DodgeBall, Tropic Thunder, the Madagascar series, Night at the Museum and its sequels and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Stiller is married to actress Christine Taylor in 2000, and appeared alongside her in the films Zoolander, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story and Tropic Thunder. The couple have two children, a daughter, Ella Olivia, and a son, Quinlin Dempsey.
Stiller was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his work on The Ben Stiller Show. He has been nominated twelve times for the Teen Choice Awards and was nominated by the MTV Movie Awards thirteen times, winning three times for Best Fight in There's Something About Mary, Best Comedic Performance in Meet the Parents and Best Villain in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. On May 31, 2009, Stiller received the MTV Generation Award.