Charles Peckham Day was born on February 9,1976 and is an American actor, writer, producer and podcaster.
30 Facts About Charlie Day
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Charlie Day is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which he co-created with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, and on which he is executive producer and writer.
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Charlie Day subsequently co-created The Cool Kids on Fox with Paul Fruchbom in 2018 and Mythic Quest on Apple TV+ with Rob McElhenney and Megan Ganz in 2020, and continues to executive-produce the latter.
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Charlie Day is known for his voice roles in Monsters University and The Lego Movie film franchise and Nintendo franchise character Luigi in The Super Mario Bros.
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Charlie Day made his directorial debut with Fool's Paradise in 2023.
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Charles Peckham Charlie Day was born in New York City on February 9,1976.
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Charlie Day's family lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
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Charlie Day spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island.
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Charlie Day is the younger of two children, with an elder sister named Alice.
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Charlie Day's 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, was a music teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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Charlie Day attended Pennfield School and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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Charlie Day majored in art history at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1998, where he was active in the Onstagers, Merrimack's student theater organization.
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Charlie Day went on to play the lead role in Dead End, at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.
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Charlie Day's performance received widespread recognition and has been the source of several memes through the years, most notably the Pepe Silvia conspiracy meme.
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Charlie Day has co-created and produced several television shows in addition to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Charlie Day served as an executive producer through its first season after which the show was canceled.
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In July 2011, Charlie Day starred in New Line Cinema's Horrible Bosses with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Foxx.
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Charlie Day later reprised the role in the sequel Horrible Bosses 2 released in November 2014.
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Charlie Day had previously worked with Sudeikis in the 2010 film Going the Distance, starring Justin Long and Drew Barrymore.
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Charlie Day hosted the November 5,2011, episode of Saturday Night Live with Maroon 5 as the musical guest.
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Charlie Day was the second cast member from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to host SNL.
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Charlie Day would 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".
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In September 2014, Charlie Day provided his voice for The Sims 4 TV spots.
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Charlie Day had a significant role 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.
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Charlie Day was cast based on his performance in the IASIP episode Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats as del Toro was a fan of the show.
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In exchange, Charlie Day created the recurring role of Pappy McPoyle for del Toro on IASIP.
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Charlie Day plays Andy Campbell, a high school English teacher, who is challenged by his co-worker, history teacher Ronald Strickland, to a fight after getting him fired.
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Charlie Day had withdrawn himself from the film's promotion and condemned the misconduct in light of the allegations before the film's public release was canceled.
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Charlie Day got his first film voice acting role in 2013 as the character Art in the Pixar animated film Monsters University.
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In 2018, Charlie Day began working on his feature directorial debut Fool's Paradise, starring Ken Jeong and himself, and featuring Ray Liotta, Kate Beckinsale, Adrien Brody, Common, Jason Sudeikis, Edie Falco and John Malkovich.