Having been born and raised in Camarillo, California, as the elder daughter of Layne Ann (Wingate), a homemaker, and Gary Carmine Cuoco, a realtor, Kaley Cuoco was home-schooled by her parents. Despite having received such an unorthodox education, Cuoco still earned her high school diploma at the age of sixteen, at which point she dove straight into her acting career. Given that Sheldon Cooper turns his nose up at anybody's education that wasn't either undertaken in an elite institution or continued up until receiving a Ph.D./Sc.D. level, you have to wonder exactly what he would have to say about this fact!
