Charlie Day

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**Charles Peckham Day** (born February 9, 1976) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director and musician. He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2011. 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), *The Lego Movie* (2014), *Fist Fight* (2017), *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018), and *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019). From 2018 to 2019, Day was the executive producer on the Fox comedy *The Cool Kids.*

## Early life

Day was born in The Bronx, in New York City, but spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island. He is the younger child of two, with an older sister named Alice. His mother, Mary (*née* Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and his father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, is a retired professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. His family's original surname was "Del Giorno" and his father is of Irish and Italian descent., while his mother has English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry.

Day attended Pennfield School and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He attended Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, majoring in art history in 1998. In May 2014, Day gave the commencement speech for Merrimack College's graduating class and received an honorary Ph.D.

After graduating, Day worked on small television roles and doing voiceovers for the Independent Film Channel, and supplemented his income by waiting tables and answering phones for a telethon. At Merrimack, he was active in the Onstagers, Merrimack's student theater organization. He was roommates with fellow actor Jimmi Simpson, who would later play the part of Liam McPoyle on *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.*

## Career

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During the summers of his college years, Day was active in the training programs at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and went on to play the lead role in *Dead End*, at the Huntington Theatre in Boston

Besides playing Charlie Kelly on the hit FX television series *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia*, he is also one of the show's executive producers and one of its writers, along with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton. He has also appeared on several other television shows such as *Third Watch*, *Law & Order*, and *Reno 911!*.

He starred in New Line Cinema's *Horrible Bosses* in July 2011, with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Foxx. 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 Guillermo del Toro's film *Pacific Rim*. 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 reprised his role for the *Pacific Rim* sequel, *Pacific Rim: Uprising* and had a role in Drew Pearce's film *Hotel Artemis*, with Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown, Brian Tyree Henry and Jenny Slate.

Day has also been a producer for the television shows *How to Be a Gentleman* and *Unsupervised*. 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). DeVito made a special appearance during Day's opening monologue. In September 2014, Day provided his voice for *The Sims 4* TV spots.

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. On August 9, 2019, *Mythic Quest*, a new half-hour comedy series written and produced by Day and Rob McElhenney, was announced as one of the original productions for Apple's upcoming streaming service, Apple TV+.

As a film director, Charlie is currently working on his debut on the upcoming comedy *El Tonto*, with Kate Beckinsale, Edie Falco and John Malkovich. Day writes, produces and stars as a silent man who becomes a celebrity and loses it all.

## Personal life

A skilled musician, Day started to play the violin at the age of three. He can play the piano, accordion, trombone, guitar and harmonica, and has written and improvised some of the music featured in *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.

Day has been married to actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis since March 4, 2006. They met in 2001 and were dating in 2004 when they co-starred as incestuous siblings on *Reno 911!*. 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. The couple had their first child, a son named Russell Wallace Day, in December 2011. They live in Los Angeles, California.

## References

1. ↑ "Behind The Voice Actors – Charlie Day". http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Charlie-Day/. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
2. ↑ Ward, Kate (November 18, 2009). "'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia': The cast tells their story". *Entertainment Weekly*. https://ew.com/article/2009/11/18/its-always-sunny-video/. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "What You Should Know About Charlie Day" (in en). https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/01/charlie-day-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia.
4. ↑ Salve Regina University (2012). "Faculty". *Salve Regina University*. Salve Regina University. Archived from the original on January 31, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110131135856/http://web.salve.edu/faculty/faculty\_detail\_main.cfm?Email=dayt%40salve.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Charlie Day : Biography". IMDb.com. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206359/bio?ref\_=nm\_ov\_bio\_sm. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
6. ↑ "Charlie Day Tells Merrimack Grads Diplomas 'Basically Do Nothing'" (in en-US). 2014-05-21. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/05/21/charlie-day-merrimack-speech-video/.
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8. ↑ "Charlie Kelly in on FXPlus" (in en). https://fxplus.fxnetworks.com//credits/.
9. ↑ Wolinsky, David (October 26, 2010). "RANDOM RULES Charlie Day". *A.V. Club*. Onion Inc. http://www.avclub.com/articles/charlie-day,46810/. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
10. ↑ Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub (May 11, 2010). "Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Colin Farrell in Talks for HORRIBLE BOSSES for Director Seth Gordon". *Collider.com*. IndieClick Film Network. http://www.collider.com/2010/05/11/jennifer-aniston-jason-bateman-charlie-day-colin-farrell-horrible-bosses-director-seth-gordon/. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
11. ↑ Nemiroff, Perri (November 24, 2014). "Guillermo del Toro Says PACIFIC RIM 2 Begins a Few Years After PACIFIC RIM in a Kaiju-Free World; Charlie Day and Burn Gorman to Return". *Collider*. http://collider.com/pacific-rim-2-story-details/.
12. ↑ Semigran, Aly (November 6, 2011). "'Saturday Night Live' recap: Turning back the clock on Charlie Day(light savings time)". Retrieved on November 6, 2011.
13. ↑ Andreeva, Patrick Hipes,Nellie; Hipes, Patrick; Andreeva, Nellie (2019-03-25). "Apple Reveals Titles For Several Of Its Original Series" (in en). https://deadline.com/2019/03/apple-new-series-titles-mythic-quest-truth-be-told-home-after-dark-for-all-mankind-more-1202582416/.
14. ↑ "Featured Alum: Charlie Day '98". *Merrimack College*. http://www.merrimack.edu/academics/liberal\_arts/visual-and-performing-arts/charlie-day.php. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
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16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Interview with Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis, MonsterFresh.com
17. ↑ Michaud, Sarah (December 16, 2011). "Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Ellis Welcome Son Russell Wallace". *People*. https://people.com/parents/always-sunny-charlie-day-mary-elizabeth-ellis-welcome-son-russell-wallace/. Retrieved March 1, 2019.

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