Charlie Day Biography

Fast Facts

• The son of two music teachers, he grew up in Rhode Island
• Played baseball and was active in dramatics in college
• After college, appeared on-stage at the Williamstown (MA) Theater Festival and in Boston
• Made his TV debut (as "mailroom kid") in the 2000 Mary Tyler Moore-Valerie Harper TV movie Mary and Rhoda
• Was a regular on the short-lived Fox sitcom Luis (2003); had guest roles on Madigan Men, Law & Order and Third Watch
• Is married to Mary Elizabeth Ellis, who plays the Waitress, the object of his character Charlie's unreturned affections on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• The couple also played incestuous siblings in a 2004 episode of Reno 911