Charles Peckham "Charlie" Day is an American actor, musician, producer, comedian, and screenwriter.
Background
Day was born in New York City, New New York His mother, Mary (née Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. His father, Doctor Thomas Charles Day, is a retired professor of music history and music theory at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.
His father is of Italian and Irish descent, and his mother has English with remote Irish and Welsh ancestry.
Education
He attended Pennfield School and graduated from the Portsmouth Abbey School, both in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Career
He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on lieutenant"s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and for his roles in the films Horrible Bosses (2011), Monsters University (2013), Pacific Rim (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), and Horrible Bosses 2 (2014). Day spent most of his childhood in Middletown, Rhode Island. Day starred on the baseball team at the Portsmouth Abbey School, playing shortstop for the Ravens.
He received a bachelor"s degree from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1998.
At Merrimack, he was active in the Onstagers, Merrimack"s Student Run Theatre Organization. He also played varsity baseball for the Warriors baseball team
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.
Besides playing Charlie Kelly on the hit Forex television series lieutenant"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.
He has also appeared on several other television shows such as Third Watch, Law & Order, and Reno 911!. He appeared in New Lincolnshire Cinema"s Horrible Bosses in July 2011, with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, and Jamie Foxx. He also had a role in the 2010 film Going the Distance, alongside Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, and Drew Barrymore.
In 2013, he voiced a character named Art in the Pixar animated film Monsters University and appeared in Guillermo del Toro"s film Pacific Rim.
Day is set to reprise his role for the Pacific Rim sequel. 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 lieutenant"s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to host SNL (after Danny DeVito, though DeVito hosted SNL before lieutenant"s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered).
DeVito made a special appearance during Day"s opening monologue.
In September 2014, Day provided his voice for The Sims 4 television spots.