Biography
Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on the FX dark comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), which he stars with Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton and Danny DeVito, and he is also a writer and an executive producer. In 2011, he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Satellite Award for the role. He subsequently co-created the Fox sitcom The Cool Kids (2018...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Super Mario World
2026
as Luigi (voice)
A new movie based on the world of Super Mario Bros. that further broadens Mario's world with a bright and fun story. Plot TBA.

Honey Don't!
2025
as Marty Metakawitch
Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

Summer of 69
2025
as Rick Richards
In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she ne...

For the Safety of Theo
2023
Executive Producer
When casual hook-ups become too debilitating, a man suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder seeks out different ways to purge himself of the cons...

The Saint of Second Chances
2023
as Mike Veeck
Mike Veeck, son of MLB franchise owner Bill Veeck, blows up his father's career. Exiled from the game he loves, the younger Veeck spends the next few ...

Fool's Paradise
2023
as Latte Pronto
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him ...

Fool's Paradise
2023
Director, Writer
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him ...

The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023
as Luigi (voice)
While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a...

I Want You Back
2022
as Peter
Peter and Emma thought they were on the precipice of life’s biggest moments – marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs – until their respective partn...

I Want You Back
2022
Executive Producer
Peter and Emma thought they were on the precipice of life’s biggest moments – marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs – until their respective partn...

How It Ends
2021
as Lonny
Liza scores an invite to one last wild party before the world ends. But making it there won't be easy, as her car has been stolen, and the clock is ti...

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
as Benny (voice)
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking every...

Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short
2018
as Benny (voice)
There’s nothing like the holidays in Apocalypseburg!

Hotel Artemis
2018
as Acapulco
Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthou...

Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018
as Dr. Newton Geiszler
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger progr...

I Love You, Daddy
2017
as Ralph Kinder
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to hand...

Fist Fight
2017
as Andy Campbell
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

Fist Fight
2017
Executive Producer
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

The Hollars
2016
as Jason
Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, e...

Vacation
2015
as Chad
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their...

Horrible Bosses 2
2014
as Dale Arbus
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a ha...

The Emmet Awards Show!
2014
as Benny (voice / uncredited / archive footage)
Time to pop that popcorn and get ready…The Emmet Awards are here! Each month thousands of kids have entered to win each of the monthly contests. NOW i...

Party Central
2014
as Art (voice)
Mike and Sulley are back at Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first ...

The Lego Movie
2014
as Benny (voice)
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from ...

Pacific Rim
2013
as Dr. Newton Geiszler
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pac...

Monsters University
2013
as Art (voice)
A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University — when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.

Horrible Bosses
2011
as Dale Arbus
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting ...

Going the Distance
2010
as Dan Grant
Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work ...

A Very Sunny Christmas
2009
as Charlie Kelly
Dennis and Dee decide to teach Frank a lesson "A Christmas Carol"-style, and Mac and Charlie learn some shocking things about their childhood Christma...

A Very Sunny Christmas
2009
Executive Producer, Writer
Dennis and Dee decide to teach Frank a lesson "A Christmas Carol"-style, and Mac and Charlie learn some shocking things about their childhood Christma...

The Nightman Cometh: Live
2009
as Charlie Kelly
The Nightman Cometh, the fictional rock opera from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, is brought to life at The Troubadour nightclub in April 2009, wr...

The Nightman Cometh: Live
2009
Writer
The Nightman Cometh, the fictional rock opera from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, is brought to life at The Troubadour nightclub in April 2009, wr...

A Quiet Little Marriage
2008
as Adam
A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all ...

Love Thy Neighbor
2003
as Video Clerk
Two married couples are about to give new meaning to the phrase "Love Thy Neighbor." When these best friends become more than just friends, one simple...

Late Summer
2001
as Trevor
A photographer remembers that special summer that he spent with his somewhat older cousin, the feelings that were awakened, and the unexpected turn of...

Campfire Stories
2001
as Joe
Two teens on their way to a backwoods party come across a beautiful young woman having car trouble. Their search for help only gets them lost, deep in...

The Red Peppers
2001
as Mr. Nudger
Set in 1936 during the dying days of music hall, "The Red Peppers' is the poignant story of George and Lily Pepper, a husband and wife comedy double a...

Mary and Rhoda
2000
as Mailroom Kid
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daugh...

Kill Me
N/A
as Jimmy
Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub after having tried to kill himself. Or, at least, that’s what it looks like to his friends and family. Jimmy is pretty sur...

Wildwood
N/A
as (voice)
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about ...
The Luigi's Mansion Movie
N/A
as Luigi (voice)
A movie based off the video game series "Luigi's Mansion."

Kill Me
N/A
Producer
Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub after having tried to kill himself. Or, at least, that’s what it looks like to his friends and family. Jimmy is pretty sur...