Charlie Day

Charlie Day met actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis in December 2001, at New York City’s KGB Bar. In fact, he arm-wrestled a friend who was also interested in Ellis and won, thus getting the chance to talk to her first. He dated Ellis for five years before they got engaged. In 2004, while he was dating her, they were cast as incestuous siblings on ‘Reno 911!’

Day and Ellis married on March 4, 2006, at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, soon after Hurricane Katrina. Their son Russell Wallace Day was born on December 15, 2011.

In 2014, Charles received an honorary doctorate in performing arts from Merrimack College.

Charles Day was born on February 9, 1976, in New York City, to Dr. Thomas Charles Day, and Mary Day. His mother taught piano at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and his father is a retired professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

While His mother has English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry, his father is of Irish and Italian descent. Charles grew up in Middletown, Rhode Island. His elder sister, Alice, has a Ph.D. in music, making him the only family member without a degree in music.

At the age of three, he started to learn playing the violin, and later learnt the piano, trombone, and guitar-harmonica combo as well.

While he was in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, he went to Pennfield School, and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, where he was a member of the baseball team, playing shortstop for the Ravens.

In 1998, he graduated from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, with a bachelor's degree. While he was at Merrimack College, he played baseball for the Warriors baseball team.

In 2001, Charlie Day was featured in an episode of ‘Law & Order’, an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf. It was a popular series, credited to be the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television.

He also appeared in the television crime series ‘Third Watch’, created by John Wells and Edward Allen Bernero which aired for six seasons on NBC till May 2005.

In 2004, he starred as Inbred Twin in the ‘Not Without My Mustache’ episode of ‘Reno 911!’, a comedy television series on Comedy Central.

In 2005, Charlie and his friends, the struggling actors Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, shot a pilot with a budget of $200. FX television picked up the comedy pilot, and turned it into ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’, which was about the exploits of ‘The Gang’, a group of self-centered friends who run the Irish bar Paddy's Pub in South Philadelphia.

With the ninth season, the series moved to FXX. Besides playing Charlie Kelly in the popular show, Day was also the executive producer and the writer of the show, along with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton. He also wrote and improvised some of the songs and music featured in the show.

‘It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ was Charlie Day’s breakthrough series which made him a star. He was highly praised for his acting talent. The super-hit series is one of the longest running (number of seasons) live-action sitcoms in American TV history.

His first significant movie role in the film ‘Going the Distance’ garnered him critical acclaim and opened up further opportunities in Hollywood. The film was a minor hit at the box office.