Charlie Day
Charlie Day | |
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 Day at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con | |
| Born | Charles Peckham Day (1976-02-09) February 9, 1976 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Merrimack College |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, musician |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Elizabeth Ellis (m. 2006) |
| Children | 1 |
Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976)[1] is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, 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.[2] 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). Since 2018, Day is the executive producer on the Fox comedy The Cool Kids.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
4.3 Video games
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Early life
Day was born in New York City. His mother, Mary (née Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. His father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, is a retired professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.[3] His mother has English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry, while his father is of Irish and Italian descent.[4] Day spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island.
Day attended Pennfield School and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 1998, he received a bachelor's degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. At Merrimack, he was active in the Onstagers, Merrimack's student theater organization. During the summers of his college years, he was active in the training programs at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate in performing arts from Merrimack, where he also delivered that year's keynote address.[5]
Career
Day at the premiere for Horrible Bosses in August 2011.
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. Day has written and improvised some of the music featured in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.[6] He has also appeared on several other television shows such as Third Watch, Law & Order, and Reno 911!.
He appeared in New Line Cinema's Horrible Bosses in July 2011, with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Foxx.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9] In September 2014, Day provided his voice for The Sims 4 TV spots.
Personal life
Day has been married to actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis since March 4, 2006.[10] They met in 2001 and were dating in 2004 when they co-starred as incestuous siblings on Reno 911!.[11] Ellis has a recurring role on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as "The Waitress" an object of the unrequited love and obsession for Day's character.[11] The couple had their first child, a son, in December 2011.[12]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Mary and Rhoda | Mailroom Kid | Television film |
| 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. Newt Geiszler | |
| 2013 | Party Central | Art | Voice Short film |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Benny | Voice |
| 2014 | Horrible Bosses 2 | Dale Arbus | |
| 2015 | Vacation | Chad | |
| 2016 | The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure | Benny | Voice Short film Attraction |
| 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 |
| TBA | El Tonto | The Fool | Post-production; also director and screenwriter |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 144 episodes, also executive producer and writer |
| 2011 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: "Charlie Day/Maroon 5" |
| 2012 | Unsupervised | Jesse Judge | Voice Episode: "Jesse Judge Lawncare Incorporated" |
| 2012 | Saturday Night Live | Congressman Fenton Worthington Carrey | Episode: "Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo" |
| 2012 | American Dad! | Meth Head | Voice Episode: "Adventures in Hayleysitting" |
| 2014 | Drunk History | Allan Pinkerton | Episode: "Baltimore" |
| 2018 | The Cool Kids | Chet | 1 episode, also co-creator, executive producer and writer |
Video games
| Year | Title | Voice role |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Disney Infinity | Art |
| 2015 | Lego Dimensions | Benny |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Film/Show | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Critics' Choice Television Award | Best Actor in a Comedy Series | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated |
| Satellite Award | Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated |
References
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^ Ward, Kate (November 18, 2009). "'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia': The cast tells their story". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
^ Salve Regina University (2012). "Faculty". Salve Regina University. Salve Regina University. Archived from the original on January 31, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
^ "Charlie Day : Biography". IMDb.com. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
^ "Featured Alum: Charlie Day '98". Merrimack College. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
^ Wolinsky, David (October 26, 2010). "RANDOM RULES Charlie Day". A.V. Club. Onion Inc. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
^ 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. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
^ 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.
^ Semigran, Aly (November 6, 2011). "'Saturday Night Live' recap: Turning back the clock on Charlie Day(light savings time)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
^ Mary Elizabeth Ellis on IMDb
^ ab Interview with Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis, MonsterFresh.com
^ Michaud, Sarah (December 16, 2011). "Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Ellis Welcome Son Russell Wallace". People. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
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