Trivia: Moved from Pennsylvania to Florida as a child. A drama teacher in high school got him interested in acting. Was a member of the International Thespian Society Troupe 850. Saw The Honeymooners when he was 12 and wanted to be like Jackie Gleason; went on to play Ralph Kramden in a Florida theater production. Began performing at comedy clubs while still a teenager. Made his feature debut in the Sylvester Stallone-starring Avenging Angelo (2002). Has been a series regular on FX's short-lived Lucky and the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly. Is a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

Trivia: First gaining notoriety as Sookie on the hit sitcom Gilmore Girls, actress Melissa McCarthy began her onscreen career with a bit part on her cousin's The Jenny McCarthy Show. Minor film and TV roles followed before she landed the aforementioned part of Sookie St. James, a role she would play throughout Gilmore Girls seven-season run on The WB/CW. In 2007, McCarthy was cast in a supporting role alongside Christina Applegate on the ABC comedy Sam I Am.She found genuine success with the sitcom Molly and Me, playing one-half of a weight-challenged couple opposite Billy Gardel and earning an Emmy nod for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. However, it was her supporting turn in the R-rated comedy Bridesmaids that brought her a taste of mass adulation as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Trivia: Before moving to Los Angeles, actress Katy Mixon studied at the Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, and later appeared in the Utah Shakespeare Festival. She began her onscreen career with a role in the 2005 thriller The Quiet, and subsequently continued to find herself on camera, appearing in films like Four Christmases and State of Play. In 2009 she landed a lead role in the HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down. She had a memorable supporting turn in Take Shelter, and also appeared in the Nicolas Cage vehicle Drive Angry.

Trivia: Actor Reno Wilson first began appearing onscreen in the late '80s, playing the recurring role of Howard on the sitcom The Cosby Show. He would go on to make many more TV appearances, guest starring on episodes of shows like Chicago Hope and Heist throughout the '90s and 2000s. Additionally, Wilson would find success in movies, with prominent roles in many feature films such as 2009's Crank High Voltage.

Trivia: Family lived in many areas of the country before they settled down in Virginia. Was a point guard on Bucknell University's basketball team; wanted to play in the NBA, but got injured and had to quit the sport. Listed on Dick Vitale's "All-Name Team," an honor for NCAA college hoops players with unique names. Made off-Broadway debut in the 2004 musical revival of Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York for two years. In 2006, made movie debut in the dramatic flick Day Night Day Night. Appeared on NBC's Law & Order in 2010. The episode was called "Four Cops Shot." Big fan of blues music. Enjoys listening to Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Performed with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the LAByrinth Theatre Company.

Trivia: Stage, screen, and TV actress Swoosie Kurtz's father was a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and she was named after a plane he flew in World War II. After college she attended a drama school in London, and debuted onstage in a series of regional theater plays in the late '60s. In 1970 she appeared in an off-Broadway production of The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, for which she won an Obie Award; she went on to a successful stage career, winning two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics' Circle Award. Eventually Hollywood took an interest, and she became a regular on the TV sitcom Love, Sydney, winning an Emmy for her work. She debuted onscreen in a small role in Slap Shot (1977) then appeared in two successive flops; it was four years before her next screen role. Since 1982 she has had an intermittently busy film career, mostly in well-respected but not particularly successful productions. In the '90s she has co-starred in the TV series Sisters.

Trivia: Was a theater major in college. In 1983, originated the role of Yvonne in the school stage production of Eleven-Zulu. Moved to New York City after college to work in the theater. First appeared on a national TV show in 1988 on the NBC comedy The Cosby Show in an episode called "If the Dress Fits, Wear It." Cinematic debut was in the 1989 drama Rooftops. Performed in the 1992 off-Broadway musical revue A...My Name Is Still Alice. First recurring small-screen series role was in the Fox drama Boston Public in 2001. In 2010, returned to TV in the CBS comedy Mike & Molly. Teaches acting classes.

Trivia: First acting role came in a grade-school production of Johnny Appleseed. Went on to study theater in college. Member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, since 1979; debuted in the 1980 play Bonjour, La Bonjour. Honored with her first Jeff Award, given for outstanding accomplishments in Chicago theater, in 1982. In 1986, made directorial stage debut in the two-play series Lydie Breeze. Made Broadway debut in the 1990 stage version of The Grapes of Wrath. First TV role was on the ABC comedy Roseanne in a 1992 episode called "Therapy." Made cinematic debut in the 1992 comedy Mo' Money. Rejected role of Mattie Fae in the problematic comedy August: Osage County four times before she agreed to do it; her portrayal earned her a Tony Award. Landed the role of Peggy in the 2010 CBS comedy Mike & Molly.

Trivia: As a high-school student, wrote and performed short plays for friends and family. Wrote and starred in the one-man show Bartenders (2002) at New York's John Houseman Theatre. Has guest starred on two Larry David sitcoms: appeared in an episode of Seinfeld as one of Jerry's neighbors; later appeared in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm as a bowling-alley employee. Enjoys collecting antiques.

Trivia: Simply by growing old gracefully, actress Susan Sarandon has defied the rules of Hollywood stardom: Not only has her fame continued to increase as she enters middle age, but the quality of her films and her performances in them has improved as well. Ultimately, she has come to embody an all-too-rare movie type -- the strong and sexy older woman. Born Susan Tomalin on October 4, 1946, in Queens, NY, she was the oldest of nine children. Even while attending the Catholic University of America, she did not study acting, and in fact expressed no interest in performing until after marrying actor Chris Sarandon. While accompanying her husband on an audition, Sarandon landed a pivotal role in the controversial 1970 feature Joe, and suddenly her own career as an actress was well underway. She soon became a regular on the daytime soap opera A World Apart and in 1972 appeared in the feature Mortadella. Lovin' Molly and The Front Page followed in 1974 before Sarandon earned cult immortality as Janet Weiss in 1975's camp classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the quintessential midnight movie of its era. After starring with Robert Redford in 1975's The Great Waldo Pepper, Sarandon struggled during the mid-'70s in a number of little-seen projects, including 1976's The Great Smokey Roadblock and 1978's Checkered Flag or Crash. Upon beginning a relationship with the famed filmmaker Louis Malle, however, her career took a turn for the better as she starred in the provocative Pretty Baby, portraying the prostitute mother of a 12-year-old Brooke Shields. Sarandon and Malle next teamed for 1980's superb Atlantic City, for which she earned her first Oscar nomination. After appearing in Paul Mazursky's Tempest, she then starred in Tony Scott's controversial 1983 horror film The Hunger, playing a scientist seduced by a vampire portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. The black comedy Compromising Positions followed in 1985, as did the TV miniseries Mussolini and I. Women of Valor, another mini, premiered a year later. While Sarandon had enjoyed a prolific career virtually from the outset, stardom remained just beyond her grasp prior to the mid-'80s. First, a prominent appearance with Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1986 hit The Witches of Eastwick brought her considerable attention, and then in 1988 she delivered a breakthrough performance in Ron Shelton's hit baseball comedy Bull Durham, which finally made her a star, at the age of 40. More important, the film teamed her with co-star Tim Robbins, with whom she soon began a long-term offscreen relationship. After a starring role in the 1989 apartheid drama A Dry White Season, Sarandon teamed with Geena Davis for Thelma and Louise, a much-discussed distaff road movie which became among the year's biggest hits and won both actresses Oscar nominations. Sarandon was again nominated for 1992's Lorenzo's Oil and 1994's The Client before finally winning her first Academy Award for 1995's Dead Man Walking, a gut-wrenching examination of the death penalty, adapted and directed by Robbins. Now a fully established star, Sarandon had her choice of projects; she decided to lend her voice to Tim Burton's animated James and the Giant Peach (1996). Two years later, she was more visible with starring roles in the thriller Twilight (starring opposite Paul Newman and Gene Hackman) and Stepmom, a weepie co-starring Julia Roberts. The same year, she had a supporting role in the John Turturro film Illuminata. Sarandon continued to stay busy in 1999, starring in Anywhere But Here, which featured her as Natalie Portman's mother, and Cradle Will Rock, Robbins' first directorial effort since Dead Man Walking. On television, Sarandon starred with Stephen Dorff in an adaptation of Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions, and showed a keen sense of humor in her various appearances on SNL, Chappelle's Show, and Malcolm in the Middle. After starring alongside Goldie Hawn in The Banger Sisters, Sarandon could be seen in a variety of projects including Alfie (2004), Romance and Cigarettes (2005), and Elizabethtown (2006). In 2007, Sarandon joined Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg in The Lovely Bones, director Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel of the same name. She continued her heavy work schedule into the 2010s- in 2012 alone, the actress took on the role of a long-suffering mother to two grown sons in various states of distress for Jeff, Who Lives at Home, appeared as an older version of a character played by her daughter, Eva Amurri Martino, in That's My Boy and played a variety of supporting roles in the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas. The following year found her in the crime drama Snitch, the ensemble rom-com The Big Wedding and in the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood. In 2014, she played Melissa McCarthy's grandmother (despite the fact that the actresses are only 24 years apart in age) in Tammy. She made a cameo appearance, as herself, in Zoolander 2 (2016).