TV Family Birthdays This Week: Christopher Knight, Kris Jenner and More

Happy birthday week, fan family! The first seven days of November turn out to be a party for TV's favorite households. A Brady brother, two Kardashian-Jenner women, two beloved sitcom moms, the star of Roseanne and the longtime voice of Cleveland Brown all blew out candles between November 1 and November 7. Grab a slice of cake and let's run through who's celebrating.

Belita Moreno turns 77 (November 1)

Sitcom fans know Belita Moreno as Benita "Benny" Lopez, George's sharp-tongued mother on ABC's George Lopez, which ran from 2002 to 2007. Benny's zingers made her one of the great tough-love TV moms of the 2000s. Before that, Moreno was a regular on the ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers from 1986 to 1992, where she played two different characters, Edwina Twinkacetti and Lydia Markham. Born November 1, 1949, she turned 77 this week.

Danny Cooksey turns 51 (November 2)

Here's one for the deep-cut crowd. Danny Cooksey, born November 2, 1975, joined Diff'rent Strokes as Sam McKinney and stayed for the show's last three seasons. He went on to a long voice-acting career, including Montana "Monty" Max on Tiny Toon Adventures, and he played a friend of young John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Roseanne Barr turns 74 (November 3)

Roseanne Barr was born November 3, 1952, and became a household name as the star of ABC's Roseanne, which ran from 1988 to 1997 and came back for a revival in 2018. The role won her an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Plans for more revival seasons were dropped in 2018 after a tweet by Barr, and the Conner family story carried on without her in The Conners.

Want the full timeline? Our Roseanne and The Conners watch order lays it all out, and why Roseanne had two Beckys explains sitcom's most famous recast.

Kendall Jenner turns 31 (November 3)

Sharing a birthday with Roseanne is Kendall Jenner, born November 3, 1995. She grew up on camera in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, starring for 20 seasons from 2007 to 2021, before the family moved on to The Kardashians on Hulu in 2022. Off screen, she became one of the world's top models; Forbes named her the highest-paid model in 2017.

If you're catching up on the family saga, start with our Keeping Up with the Kardashians episode guide.

Berlinda Tolbert turns 77 (November 4)

Movin' on up to November 4: Berlinda Tolbert, born in 1949, played Jenny Willis Jefferson on CBS's The Jeffersons, which aired from 1975 to 1985. Jenny was the daughter of neighbors Tom and Helen Willis, and her married name says it all: she tied two of TV's most memorable families together.

Remembering Doris Roberts (November 4)

November 4 also belongs to Doris Roberts, born in 1925. To millions she will always be Marie Barone, the meddling matriarch of Everybody Loves Raymond, which ran on CBS from 1996 to 2005. Roberts won five Emmy Awards over a career that began in 1948, and before Raymond she was well known as Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele. She died on April 17, 2016, at 90. This week would have been her 101st birthday.

See what her TV family has been up to since in our Everybody Loves Raymond cast: where are they now guide.

Kris Jenner turns 71 (November 5)

Two days after Kendall's birthday, it's mom's turn. Kris Jenner, born November 5, 1955, starred in Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021 and served as executive producer on most of her family's reality shows. She's a mother of six (Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Rob, Kendall and Kylie) and, per Wikipedia, a grandmother of 13. A November with two Jenner birthdays in three days must keep the party planners busy.

Christopher Knight turns 69 today (November 7)

Today's the big one for classic sitcom fans: Christopher Knight, born November 7, 1957, is 69. He was cast as middle son Peter Brady in 1969 on ABC's The Brady Bunch, which ran until 1974, and he also voiced Peter in the Saturday morning cartoon The Brady Kids. Knight kept coming home to the Bradys for decades, from A Very Brady Christmas (1988) to HGTV's A Very Brady Renovation in 2019 alongside his former TV siblings, plus the 2021 Lifetime movie Blending Christmas with Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen and Robbie Rist.

Mike Henry turns 61 today (November 7)

Sharing today's birthday is Mike Henry, born November 7, 1965. On Family Guy he's been a writer, producer and the voice of Herbert, Bruce, Consuela and plenty more, and he voiced Cleveland Brown until 2021. He also co-created the spin-off The Cleveland Show, which ran from 2009 to 2013, where he voiced Cleveland and Rallo Tubbs.

Celebrate with a family marathon

The best way to celebrate a TV birthday is a rewatch. Pick your era: Peter Brady's 1970s, the Jeffersons' deluxe apartment, the Barones' kitchen or the Kardashians' living room. Still not sure where to start? Our ranking of the best American family sitcoms has a pick for every mood.

Happy birthday to everyone celebrating this week, and see you next Saturday for another round of TV family birthdays!