- Born
- Birth nameCharles Peckham Day
- Nickname
- Green Man
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Charles Peckham Day was born in New York City, NY, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island. His parents are both music teachers - his mother, Mary (Peckham), is a piano teacher, and his father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, was a professor of music at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. Charlie plays both piano and guitar. He has Italian (from his paternal grandfather), Irish, and English ancestry.
He attended Merrimack College in Massachusetts, majoring in art history. After graduating, he began acting at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and in small television roles. He supplemented his income by waiting tables and answering phones for a telethon selling a Motown anthology. He got his first agent after performing a funny blues song he'd written at a cabaret night.
His big break came in 2005 after he pitched a home video he shot with his friends Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton. This eventually became the hit series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005). As well as starring in the show, Charlie is also an Executive Producer and one of the writers. His breakthrough film role was Horrible Bosses (2011).
He resides in Los Angeles with his wife.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kad (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpouseMary Elizabeth Ellis(March 4, 2006 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenRussell Wallace Day
- ParentsMary PeckhamThomas Charles Day
- Often plays abused or mistreated characters
- Writes and stars in darkly comic movies and TV shows
- High-pitched voice
- Is a skilled musician and wrote the songs contributed by his character, Charlie Kelly, in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005).
- Charlie and his wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis met as fellow theater actors in New York City in 2001.
- He was roommates for a time with actor Jimmi Simpson who would later play the part of Liam McPoyle on Day's show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005).
- In 2004, he and his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, played incestuous siblings on the Reno 911! (2003) episode, Not Without My Mustache (#2.7).
- He was the only person in his nuclear family not to have doctorate degree until 2014, when his Alma Mater, Merrimack College, awarded him an honorary doctorate.
- Well, yeah. The barometer is always whether or not you find it funny. There's plenty of scripts that deal with similar subject matter that I find not funny at all, or way over the top. The trick in my opinion to a really good comedy is when it walks up to that line, and you're always wondering, "Are they going to step over it? Are they going to go too far?" That balancing act of, "I can't believe they're getting away with this, why aren't they falling?" If you don't come close enough to the line, then it's almost too safe and predictable. If you go way over it, then nobody cares to watch it. You could make a really funny movie or episode about the darkest things in the world and if you just handle it the right way it's going to be fine.
- The truth is that everybody's a little bit damaged in some way or another.
- I'm choosing my words carefully cause I'm sure, when it comes to being naked with Jennifer Aniston, they will be printed. But, believe it or not, it was just really silly, fun, funny and entertaining, at the end of the day.
- You catch yourself acting with these people that you've watched and loved in movies for years, and you feel truly blessed to be in that position.
- As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
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