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Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976)[1][2] is an American actor, producer and writer. He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), for which he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Satellite Award in 2011.[3] In 2020, he co-created the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest alongside Rob McElhenney and Megan Ganz. In film, he is known for his role as Dale in the films Horrible Bosses (2011) and its 2014 sequel, as well as for his roles in Monsters University (2013), Pacific Rim (2013) and its 2018 sequel, The Lego Movie film franchise (2014-2019) and Fist Fight (2017). From 2018 to 2019, Day was the executive producer on the Fox comedy The Cool Kids.

Charlie Day
Day dressed as Dayman from It's Always Sunny at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Charles Peckham Day (1976-02-09) February 9, 1976 (age 46) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Merrimack College
Occupation	Actor producer writer
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Ellis ​ ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	1

Early life

Charles Peckham Day was born in New York City on February 9, 1976.[1][2] His family lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island. He is the youngest of two children, with an elder sister named Alice.[4] His father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, who is of Italian and Irish descent, is a retired professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and his mother, Mary (née Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She was of English descent. [5] His paternal grandfather changed the family name from "Del Giorno" to "Day"[6][7] to assimilate during WWII[7] and died in a military training accident when his son Thomas was only four.[8]

Day attended Pennfield School and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He majored in art history at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1998. At Merrimack, he was active in the Onstagers, Merrimack's student theater organization.[9] In May 2014, Day gave the commencement speech for Merrimack College's graduating class and received an honorary Ph.D.[10]

After graduating, Day worked on small television roles, advertisements, and voiceovers for the Independent Film Channel,[11] and supplemented his income by waiting tables and answering phones for a telethon.[12]

Career

Beginning in summer 1997 as a college student, Day was active in the training programs at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he was a contemporary of actors such as Jimmi Simpson, David Hornsby, Kathryn Hahn and Sterling K. Brown. Day went on to play the lead role in Dead End, at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.[13] In the early 2000s, he appeared on several television shows such as Third Watch, Law & Order, Reno 911! and the cancelled sitcom Luis.

As a young actor living in New York City, Day had lived with Simpson, and the two had often made comedy sketches and absurd short films with Hornsby, Nate Mooney, Logan Marshall-Green and other actor friends.[14] These served as the inspiration for several scripted home movies he later developed with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton in 2003, including a few about three struggling actors getting into schemes and awkward situations in their spare time while living in LA.[15] The scripts evolved and went on to become the pilot episode of the comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.[16] In 2005, the first season was released on FX television.[17] In addition to being a co-creator, executive producer and writer on the show, Day plays Charlie Kelly, one of the main characters on the show. In 2021, It's Always Sunny became the longest running live action comedy on American television with the release of its fifteenth season.[18][19]

In July 2011, Day starred in New Line Cinema's Horrible Bosses with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Foxx.[20] The film was a commercial success and Day's performance was praised by critics. He also had a role in the 2010 film Going the Distance, alongside Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, and Drew Barrymore. In 2013, he voiced the character Art in the Pixar animated film Monsters University and appeared in the Guillermo del Toro science fiction kaiju film Pacific Rim, in which he played biologist Dr Newton "Newt" Geiszler, who is the focus of the secondary comedic plot with Burn Gorman and Ron Perlman. In 2018, he reprised the role for the sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising directed by Steven S. DeKnight.[21]

In 2017, Day starred in Fist Fight, with Ice Cube. In it, Day plays Andy Campbell, a high school English teacher challenged by his co-worker, history teacher Ronald Strickland (Cube), to a fight after getting him fired. In 2018, he had a role in Drew Pearce's film Hotel Artemis, with Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown, Brian Tyree Henry and Jenny Slate.[22]

Most recently, Day played his first leading role in a romantic comedy on I Want You Back with Slate for Amazon Studios released on 11 February 2022.

Day also produced the television shows How to Be a Gentleman and Unsupervised, created by It's Always Sunny writers David Hornsby, Scott Marder and Rob Rosell. Day hosted the November 5, 2011 episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL) with Maroon 5 as the musical guest. He was the second cast member from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to host SNL (after Danny DeVito, though DeVito hosted SNL before It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered, the last time being in 1999; notably, however, DeVito would make a brief cameo during Day's opening monologue in this episode). Day would also make another brief cameo in the following season's episode hosted by Jamie Foxx on December 8, 2012, as a congressman in the episode's sketch "Maine Justice".[23] In September 2014, Day provided his voice for The Sims 4 TV spots.^{[citation needed]}

He is the creator and producer of Fox comedy The Cool Kids, starring Vicki Lawrence, Martin Mull, David Alan Grier and Leslie Jordan and set in a retirement community.[24] On August 9, 2019, Mythic Quest, a new half-hour comedy series co-created by Day and, colleagues from It's Always Sunny, Rob McElhenney and Megan Ganz, was announced as one of the original productions for the then-upcoming streaming service, Apple TV+.[25]

In September 2021, Nintendo announced that Day will be voicing Luigi, in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, set to be released on April 7, 2023.[26][27] Day is currently also working on his feature directorial debut with the upcoming comedy El Tonto, featuring Kate Beckinsale, Edie Falco and John Malkovich.[28] Day writes, produces, and stars as a silent man who becomes a celebrity and loses it all.[29]

Since November 2021, Day, McElhenney and Howerton have been releasing The Always Sunny Podcast, originally intending on re-watching the entire series and sharing behind-the-scenes information, before the focus of the podcast naturally shifted to emphasize the banter and dynamic between the three creators.[30]

Personal life

A skilled musician, Day can play the piano, accordion, trombone, guitar, and harmonica,[4] and has written or improvised most of the songs featured on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate in performing arts from Merrimack College, where he also delivered that year's keynote address.[31]

In 2001, Day met actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis.[32] They were already dating in 2004 when they co-starred as incestuous siblings on Reno 911!.[32] Ellis has a recurring role on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as The Waitress, the object of the unrequited love and obsession for Day's character.[32] The couple married on March 4, 2006.[33] Together they had their first child, a son named Russell Wallace Day, in December 2011.[33] They live in Los Angeles, California.[33]

Day has stated with uncertainty that he is agnostic.[34]

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Late Summer	Trevor	Short film
2001	Campfire Stories	Joe Boner
2002	Bad Company	Stoner	Uncredited
2005	Love Thy Neighbor	Video Clerk
2008	A Quiet Little Marriage	Adam
2010	Going the Distance	Dan
2011	Horrible Bosses	Dale Arbus
2013	Monsters University	Art (voice)
2013	Pacific Rim	Dr. Newton Geiszler
2014	Party Central	Art (voice)	Short film
2014	The Lego Movie	Benny (voice)
2014	Horrible Bosses 2	Dale Arbus
2015	Vacation	Chad
2016	The Hollars	Jason
2017	Fist Fight	Andrew "Andy" Campbell	Also executive producer
2017	I Love You, Daddy	Ralph
2018	Pacific Rim: Uprising	Dr. Newton Geiszler
2018	Hotel Artemis	Acapulco
2019	The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part	Benny (voice)
2021	How It Ends	Lonny
2022	I Want You Back	Peter	Also executive producer
2023	The Super Mario Bros. Movie	Luigi (voice)	Post-production
TBA	The Untitled Charlie Day Movie	The Fool	Post-production; also director and screenwriter
	Pacific Rim 3	Dr. Newton Geiszler
TBA	Wildwood		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Mary and Rhoda	Mailroom Kid	Television film
2000	Madigan Men	Clerk	Episode: "Three Guys, a Girl and a Conversation Nook"
2001	Law & Order	Jeremy	Episode: "Swept Away – A Very Special Episode"
2001–2004	Third Watch	Michael Boscorelli	5 episodes
2003	Luis	Richie	10 episodes
2004	Reno 911!	Inbred Twin	Episode: "Not Without My Mustache"
2005–present	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Charlie Kelly	Also executive producer and writer
2011, 2012	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host), Congressman Fenton Worthington Carrey	Episodes: "Charlie Day/Maroon 5", "Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo"
2012	Unsupervised	Jesse Judge (voice)	Episode: "Jesse Judge Lawncare Incorporated"
2012	American Dad!	Meth Head (voice)	Episode: "Adventures in Hayleysitting"
2014	Drunk History	Allan Pinkerton	Episode: "Baltimore"
2018–2019	The Cool Kids	Chet	1 episode, also co-creator, executive producer and writer
2020–present	Mythic Quest	—	Co-creator, executive producer, and writer

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2013	Disney Infinity	Art
2015	Lego Dimensions	Benny

Theme park attractions

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	The Lego Movie: 4D - A New Adventure	Benny (voice)

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Dead End	2nd Ave Gang #1	[35]
1997	Princess Turandot	The Second Eunuch	[35]
1997	Johnny On a Spot	Fred	[35]
1999	Camino Real	Abdullah	[36]
1999	Quark Victory	Newt	[37]
2000	A Servant of Two Masters	Pantaloon	[38]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2011	Critics' Choice Television Award	Best Actor in a Comedy Series	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Nominated
2011	Satellite Awards	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy		Nominated
2015	MTV Movie & TV Awards	#WTF Moment	Horrible Bosses 2	Nominated
2015	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actor: Comedy		Nominated
		Choice Movie: Chemistry		Nominated
		Choice Movie: Hissy Fit		Nominated
2017		Choice Movie: Fight	Fist Fight	Nominated

References

External links

• Charlie Day at IMDb

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[de] Charlie Day

Charles Peckham Day (* 9. Februar 1976 in der Bronx,[1] New York City, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Drehbuchautor und Produzent.

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[es] Charlie Day

Charles Peckham "Charlie" Day (9 de febrero de 1976, Nueva York) es un actor, escritor y músico estadounidense. Es conocido por su papel en Horrible Bosses y en la serie Colgados en Philadelphia, donde conoció a su esposa. En 2020, co-creó la serie de comedia Mythic Quest, de Apple TV+.

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[ru] Дэй, Чарли

Чарльз Пекэм «Чарли» Дэй[1] (англ. Charles Peckham “Charlie” Day; род. 9 февраля 1976) — американский актёр кино и телевидения, наиболее известный по роли Чарли Келли в телесериале «В Филадельфии всегда солнечно».

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