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Who is Tom Pelphrey? Actress Kaley Cuoco announces pregnancy with new boyfriend

Kaley Cuoco has confirmed she is dating Ozark actor Tom Pelphrey following her divorce from second husband, Karl Cook

(Picture: Kaley Cuoco / Instagram)

Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco is expecting her first baby with her boyfriend, Ozark actor Tom Pelphrey.

The couple confirmed they were dating in May.

At the time, Cuoco posted a reel to her Instagram page of the pair on a mountain getaway, that included Polaroid shots of Pelphrey kissing her on her cheek.

Alongside the shot, she wrote the caption: “Life lately. ‘The sun breaks through the clouds, rays of gold slipping into my eyes and heart, rays of yellow to break the grey’.”

Pelphrey also shared the pictures to his Instagram account, alongside a lengthy quote, in which he wrote: “But nothing can save you. Not your friends, not the best Fred Astaire musical you’ve ever seen – the grace of it, not your mother’s beauty, not a line from a letter you find at the bottom of a drawer, not a magazine or the next day. Nothing can save you.”

But who is Cuoco’s baby daddy? Here’s everything you need to know.

Who is Tom Pelphrey?

Tom Pelphrey is a 39-year-old American actor, who was born and raised in New Jersey.

He began acting in high school, thanks to an inspirational teacher and, after attending the acting society FPAC at Howell High, he received a BFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University.

While studying there, Pelphey also studied Shakespeare, at the Globe Theatre, in London.

The actor’s breakthrough role was on the long-running CBS daytime drama Guiding Light, for which he won an Emmy. He is also known for being in hit TV shows such as Iron Fist, Ozark, and Banshee. In Ozark, he played Ben Davis, from 2020 until 2022, and his performance in the Netflix drama received much critical acclaim.

The actor was also cast in films such as the Oscar-winning Mank.

In 2022, he will be seen as Perry Abbott in Outer Range, and the talented actor has appeared on Broadway, debuting in End Of The Rainbow, then appearing in Fool for Love

When did Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey start dating?

Kayley Cuoco, 36, announced that she had found love again just months after the end of her second marriage.

She filed for divorce from Karl Cook in September 2021, after three years of marriage, and on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, she shared that she and Tom were dating, with a series of posts on her Instagram account.

The former Big Bang Theory actress showed pictures of the lovebirds cuddling and added the caption: “The sun breaks through the clouds, rays of gold slipping into my eyes and heart, rays of yellow to break the grey.”

When are Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey having a baby?

Cuoco announced she and Pelphrey are having a baby girl six months after they started dating, in a post shared on October 1, and that the baby is due in 2023.

In 2018, she told ET that she did hope to eventually have children.

“I’m not quite there yet but I know that I will because I love kids,” she said at the time.

“But I’m a worker bee right now - kind of my career is my focus and my husband. But we love kids and we love animals so we’re meant to have children.”

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