Charlie Day

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Biography

The Four Eton Boys were educated in small towns near St. Louis, where they all gained dramatic experience in amateur productions. Charlie and 'Jack Day .

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 09 February 1976
  • Place of birth
  • New York City
  • Spouses
  • Mary Elizabeth Ellis
  • Education
  • Merrimack College

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Is a skilled musician and wrote the songs contributed by his character, Charlie Kelly, in "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia" .

He was roommates for a time with actor Jimmi Simpson who would later play the part of Liam McPoyle on Days show "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia" .

Expecting his first child with wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis in December 2011.

In 2004, he and his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Ellis , played incestuous siblings on the "Reno 911!" 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.

Charlie and his wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis met as fellow theater actors in New York City in 2001.

He hosted the November 5, 2011 episode of "Saturday Night Live" . He is the second cast member from "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia" to host SNL, after Danny DeVito.

Charlie and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Ellis , had their first child, a son named Russell Wallace Day, on December 15, 2011.

His familys original surname was "Del Giorno". His father is of Italian and Irish ancestry, and his mother has English, with remote Irish and Welsh, roots. Much of his mothers family has lived in the United States, especially in New England, since the 1600s.

Quotes

Well, yeah. The barometer is always whether or not you find it funny.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time,to time.

Like most young actors starting out, I really just wanted to act.

[on his role in Pacific Rim (2013) ] I play Dr. Newton Geiszler.

[words of wisdom in a commencement speech at his alma mater, Merrimack,College] The higher in life you climb, the more ridiculous your hats,will become.

I have always had a half-baked philosophy that having a Plan B can muddy,up your Plan A.

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