Glenn Howerton

Glenn Franklin Howerton III (born April 13, 1976) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for the long-running dark satirical comedy ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–present) on FX/FXX, a show he co-created with Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney, and on which he plays Dennis Reynolds, in addition to being an executive producer and writer. His other notable performances include the lead role of Jack Griffin in '' A.P. Bio'' on NBC, a recurring role as Cliff Gilbert on ''The Mindy Project'' on Fox and lead role Corey Howard in the short-lived spinoff sitcom ''That '80s Show''.

Early life and education

Glenn Franklin Howerton III was born on April 13, 1976 in Japan, the son of American parents Janice and Glenn Franklin Howerton Jr. His father was a fighter pilot. Almost immediately after his birth, his family moved to Arizona and then New Mexico for a short while. When he was three years old, they moved to the English town of Felixstowe, Suffolk. They subsequently moved to Virginia, followed by South Korea, where they settled in Seoul. When he was 10 years old, the family moved to Montgomery, Alabama.

After graduating from Jefferson Davis High School, he moved to Miami where he spent two years at New World School of the Arts of Miami Dade College. In 1996, he entered Juilliard School's Drama Division in New York City where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts as part of Group 29 (1996–2000).

Career

In 2002, Howerton starred as Corey Howard in ''That '80s Show''. He went on to guest star on '' ER'' as Dr. Nick Cooper in 2003. He had small roles in the films ''Must Love Dogs'' (2005), '' Serenity'' (2005), '' Two Weeks'' (2006), and '' The Strangers'' (2008). He also appeared as a doctor in '' Crank'' (2006), and reprised the role in its 2009 sequel, '' Crank: High Voltage''.

Howerton is most well-known for playing the deeply narcissistic and anti-social bartender of Paddy's Pub, Dennis Reynolds, one of the main characters on the FX sitcom '' It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–present). The series was co-created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and him, and the three serve as executive producers, writers and main cast members alongside Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito. As of season 14, he has also directed two episodes. In December 2021, ''Always Sunny'' became the longest-running live-action America comedy of all time with the release of its fifteenth season.

In 2008, Howerton co-created sci-fi comedy '' Boldly Going Nowhere'' with Day, McElhenney and writing assistant Adam Stein, but the pilot was permanently shelved. He has also had producing roles on various projects created by other ''Always Sunny'' colleagues like David Hornsby such as ''How to Be a Gentleman'', ''Unsupervised'' and '' The Cool Kids.'' Howerton also did several voice roles including a recurring part on ''The Cleveland Show'' as Ernie Krinklesac from 2009 to 2013.

He played the lead role in a film for the first time in 2013, when he landed the character of Will in the CollegeHumor comedy film '' Coffee Town'' with co-stars Steve Little and Ben Schwartz. Soon after, he landed recurring roles at the time on the Fox comedy series ''The Mindy Project'' (2012–2017) as Cliff Gilbert, the divorce lawyer introduced in season 2 as one of Mindy's love interests, and on the critically-acclaimed first season of the FX dark comedy series '' Fargo'' (2014–present) as Don Chumph. He even had a small part as the gun-running Dominic in the Netflix Original ''Officer Downe'' (2016) starring Kim Coates.

His next major television role came in 2018 on the NBC single-camera comedy created by Mike O'Brien, '' A.P. Bio'' (2018–2021), where he played Jack Griffin, an arrogant Harvard philosophy professor whose fall from grace had forced him to get a job teaching biology to high school students in his hometown of Toledo while plotting to exact revenge on his nemesis and restore his career. The show ran for two seasons on NBC before it was moved to Peacock, NBC's streaming service, where it ran for two more seasons, when it was cancelled for good. In October 2022, it was announced that he would be voicing Fred Jones on the upcoming HBO Max animated series '' Velma''.

Starting in November 2021, Day, McElhenney and Howerton launched ''The Always Sunny Podcast'', a weekly show loosely based on the rewatch format of podcasting, which had grown in popularity in recent years, to coincide with the release of the record-breaking season 15 of ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia''. In June 2022, they released ''Four Walls'' ''Whiskey'' with all proceeds from the 15-year single-malt Irish whiskey going towards supporting the Pennsylvania hospitality industry which was badly hit by the pandemic.

Personal life

On September 8, 2009, Howerton married actress Jill Latiano, who guest-starred on the ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' episode "The D.E.N.N.I.S. System" broadcast two months later. Their first son, Miles Robert, was born in 2011, and their second son, Isley Ray, in August 2014.

Howerton has said that he follows a vegan diet "about 95% of the time."

Filmography

Film

Television

Web

Music videos

Theatre

References

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21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American television producers
American television writers
American male television writers
Juilliard School alumni
Living people
Male actors from Montgomery, Alabama
Screenwriters from Alabama
1976 births