Bio: 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.
Tivia: 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.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 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).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, had their first child, a son named Russell Wallace Day, on December 15, 2011.He hosted the November 5, 2011 episode of Saturday Night Live (1975). He is the second cast member from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) to host SNL, after Danny DeVito.His family's original surname was "Del Giorno". His father is of Italian and Irish ancestry, and his mother has English, with remote Irish and Welsh, roots. Many of his mother's family lines have been in the United States, specifically in New England, since the 1600s.Expecting his first child with wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis in December 2011.