Director · Actor · Writer · Producer

Charlie Day

49 credited titles on WatchWise

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/FXX dark comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), of which 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. Subsequently, he co-created the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest (2020–2025) with Rob Mac and Megan Ganz. In film, Day is best known for his performances as Dr. Newton Geiszler in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013), Dale Arbus in the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011) and its sequel Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), and Andy Campbell in the comedy Fist Fight (2017). He is also known for his voice roles in Monsters University (2013), The Lego Movie film franchise (2014–2019) and Nintendo franchise character Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) and its sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026). He made his directorial debut with Fool's Paradise (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlie Day, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Associated lifetime gross

$660M

Combined reported budget

$70M

Gross / budget

9.4x

Bankability Index

67 / 100

Associated performance by genre

Worldwide gross by tagged contribution — US$.

Action

$525M · 1 film · 100% hit

Comedy

$117M · 3 films · 100% hit

Drama

$19M · 2 films · 0% hit

Bankability assessment

67/100Commercially reliable collaborator

Films measured × gross-vs-budget efficiency, weighted by billing prominence — lead roles and directing count fully, minor roles fractionally. Association, not attribution — not a claim that this individual caused the revenue.