Glenn Howerton

Biography

Glenn Howerton is an American TV & Movie actor, director, songwriter & producer. Glenn is popular for playing Dennis Reynolds in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia', Jack in A.P. Bio, Ernie Krinklesac in The Cleveland Show, Corey Howard in 'That '80s show' and for voicing Fred in Velma.

His recent performances include playing Jim in BlackBerry(2023), Business Manager in Fool's Paradise, John in How it Ends(2021) among others.

Childhood- Family

Glenn Howerton was born on 13th April, 1976 in Japan to American parents- Glenn Franklin Howerton Jr.(Father)- a fighter pilot placed in Japan at that time & Janice Howerton (Mother).

He was born in Japan, His family moved to Alabama from South Korea when he was 10 years old. Because of his father's work he grew up in Alabama(USA), Montgomery, London(England) & South Korea. 

Ancestry: Glenn is of- English, French, German, Irish, Russia, Scottish descent. From his mother's father's side he is Ashkenazi Jew.

Education

• High School: He went to High school mostly at Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
• Bachelor of Arts: He finished a two year course at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida in Arts.
• Bachelor of Fine Arts: Glenn attended Juilliard School in Manhattan, New York City where he graduated in Drama. He was in the class of 1996-2000

Aeronautical engineering: When he was about get into graduation he had to decide between becoming an Aeronautical engineer and an actor, he chose the latter.

Marriage

Jill Latiano

Glenn met actress Jill while they were working together on one of the episodes of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'. The couple got engaged in February 2008. They got married on 8th September 2009.

The couple have two children, two sons- Miles Robert Howerton(born in 2011) & Isley Ray Howerton(born in 2014)

Image: Glenn Howerton Family: Wife Jill Latiano & sons- Miles Robert & Isley Ray

Career

That '80s Show

Glenn's TV debut was through the Fox comedy series "That 80s show", he played the lead role of Corey Howard. The series had 13 episodes, each lasting 22-24 minutes. 

Corey Howard plays a struggling musician who lives with his father R.T.Howard and sister Katie. He works at the record store "Permanent Record". 

Tinsley Grimes played his sister Katie Howard, Brittany Daniel plays Sophia- Corey's ex-girlfriend. Eddie Shin played his friend Roger Park and Geoff Pierson played Corey's father.

In the 2002 TV movie 'Monday Night Mayhem', he played Dick Ebersol's role

In the 2002 series 'The Job', he appeared as a young guy in the episode "Gay"

In the comedy series 'That was then', he played Noah Benjamin.

In the NBC medical drama series ER (Emergency Room),he played Dr. Nick Cooper in six episodes of the season 10 (episodes 3-8)

In the 2003 TV movie E.D.N.Y, he played Paul Webster

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Glenn's biggest early breakout came through his collab work with the friends- 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia', Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton developed the series for FX, their friend Charlie Day joined them in one of the main roles.

Glenn plays Dennis Reynolds, the bartender and also the co-owner at Paddy's pub. He is Dee's (Kaitlin Olson) twin brother and and Frank's (Danny DeVito) son. He is the most intelligent of the three friends that own the bar, but he is also the most narcissistic and possibly even psychopathic. he is selfish, superficial, predatory in nature. He seduces women, gaslights them and dumps them, he is also diagonised with borderline personality disorder.

The series has a highe rating of 8.8/10 on IMDB with 100s of thousands of user reviews. 

Must Love Dogs(2005), the romantic comedy starring Diane Lane and John Cusack was Glenn's first big movie gig. He plays Michael, Sarah's (Diane Lane)  brother, a recently divoced man who is sulking in alcohol.

In the 2005 Sci-Fi movie Serenity, he appeared in a small role of Lilac Young Tough

In the 2006 action thriller Crank, he played the role of a Doctor. The movie starred Jason Statham, Amy Smart in the lead.

In the comedy drama 'Two Weeks', he played Matthew Bergman, one of the four Bergman siblings, the children of lead character Anita Bergman (played by Sally Field).

In the 2008 psychological horror movie 'The Strangers', he played Mike the friend of the lead characters James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) and Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler)

In the short comedy movie Happy Wednesday directed by Jason Naumann, Glenn appeared in the lead role of Spencer Scott

In the Crank movie sequel 'Crank: High Voltage', he re-appeared as a Doctor

In 2009, he voiced a character in the Animatio series 'American Dad!' for an episode

In the comedy animation series 'Glenn Martin DDS' he voiced starfinder and other characters

The Cleveland Show

In the Black Sitcom 'The Cleveland Show' created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry, Glenn has voiced the characters Franklin, Ernie and others in 32 episodes between 2009 and 2013

In the 2010 Will Ferrell starrer comedy drama 'Everything Must Go', Glenn played Gary, Superviser of Nick Halsey (played by Will Ferrell), the alcoholic protagonist.

In the comedy collab work 'Dennis & Dee's Podcast' with It's always sunny in Philadelphia co-star Kaitlin Olson, he played Dennis Reynolds. It was a short movie, of just the two of them

He played a small role In the short comedy 'Happy Cabin Song' by Nick Corirossi & Charles Ingram.

In the comedy animation series 'Unsupervised' he voiced character Clint

Coffee Town (2013)

In the 2013 comedy written and directed by Brad Copeland, Glenn played Will, the website manager of an electronics company. Will uses a local coffee shop named Coffee Town as his personal office. When the owners of the shop decide to turn coffee shop into a Bistro, Will decides to use his friends' help to save his office

Glenn Howerton, Steve Little, Ben Schwartz, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Groban appear in the lead roles.

In the crime thriller Fargo, he played Don Chumph in five episodes

Glenn has voiced various characters in the family animation comedy 'Family Guy' in four of the episodes.

In a 2015 TripTank episode, Glenn voiced Congress Rothbard, Congressman Hume and Congressman Adorno

In the comedy drama 'House of Lies' he played Seth Buckley, a mayor candidate romantically involved with the lead character Jeannie Van Der Hoover (Kristen Bell) in four of the episodes of season 5.

In the 2016 Sci-Fi comedy Officer Downe, he played Dominic

In The Mindy Project, Glenn has played the recurring role of Cliff Gilbert in seasons 2,3 and 6, for a total of 13 episodes. He plays a lawyer who lives in the same building as Mindy's ex-boyfriend.

In the short film 'When Pigs Fly' directed by Andrew Wood he played the lead role of Uncle Al. In the 2020 horror thriller 'The Hunt' directed by Craig Zobel, Glenn plays Richard, one of the group of friends. He eventually gets killed by Crystal (Betty Gilpin)

In the 2020 action thriller series 'The Fugitive', he played Jerry

In the 2020 mystery thriller Archenemy, he played The manager.

In the 2021 apocalyptic comedy drama 'How It Ends', Glenn plays John, the car thief

A.P. Bio

In the NBC sitcom A.P. Bio created by Mike O'Brien, Glenn played the lead role of Dr. Jack Griffin.

Glenn plays Jack Griffin, a disgraced Harvard philosophy professor who is forced to move to his hometown of Toledo, Ohio to work as a High School biology teacher

Jack uses his students to take revenge against people who wronged him in the past, especially his rival Miles Leonard (Tom Bennett) who made Jack lose his dream job.

BlackBerry

In the 2023 Canadian biographical comedy-drama by Matt Johnson, Glenn plays the  Jim Balsillie who was one of the investors of the mobile phone line BlackBerry

Jim Ballsilie, the investor whom Glenn played praised Glenn's portrayal of him, called it "brilliant" while also calling the portrayal of him as an aggressive, morally dubious businessman as "entirely fictional

Glenn has been admired for his portrayal of Jim, he has won the critical acclaim and has received dozens of Nominations at various film awards.

In the satirical comedy movie Fool's Paradise (2023), he played a a business manager

In the series Velma, he voices Fred in 20 of the episodes.

Filmography

Movies

Series

Facts & Trivia

• His dime sized pink nipples were the matter of talk when he was on Conan's show on TBS back in 2012. They revealed a 'It's always sunny in Philadelphia' mug with Dennis on it, apparently the T-shirt disappears when hot water is poured into the mug, a fitting tribute to the character Dennis who likes to pop the shirt often.
• Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Glenn started acting in plays at the festival
• Charlie Day & Rob McElhenny: He met the two in New York, they became friends soon and contemplated a work together which eventually became It's always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Dennis of 'It's always Sunny in Philadelphia': Both Charlie & Rob chose to use their names for the respective characters on the show, Glenn thought He had an unlikable name and chose not to use his name.
• Voice Actor: Glenn has voiced characters on many shows, including- TripTank, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, Unsupervised, Glenn Martin DDS, American Dad!
• Writing: Glenn started writing script for the episodes in It's always sunny in Philadelphia. He has written more than 25 episodes.
• Over the years Charlie Day, Rob & Glenn have grown to become very close friends.
• He speaks 4 languages: English, French, Spanish & Korean
• He did some odd jobs before the break on TV like- working at Chic Fil A(Alabama), Selling meat door to door, Working in an aluminium factory.
• He worked as a bellman at the Hudson Hotel in New York City
• His Twitter bio reads- 'The Golden God of Twitter'
• Glenn's paternal grandfather Glenn Howerton Sr. was a Fighter pilot who fought in the world war 2. Glenn's father Glenn Howerton Jr. was also a Fighter pilot.
• He has been critical of Donald Trump
• He has appeared on shows of- Conan O'Brien, Kevin Pollak, Carson Daly, Spike Feresten

Awards

Quotes

• [On his son Miles] My wife and I thought it would be a good idea to wait to see the baby first before we decided on his name, to get a sense of the guy you know, Then we saw him and he looked like a tiny little baby alien grandpa & I was like, ‘'I am not getting any information from this at all.'
• I was one of those strange people who loved school.
• I'm really bad at writing jokes.
• I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.
• Dennis is a great outlet for my really weird sense of humor.
• I do legs every day. I never want to be that top heavy guy at the gym. Very unhealthy.
• 'Goddamnit' is just super fun to say. I don't know why. God made it that way for a reason, I suppose.
• Hey just a quick reminder: if you wear too much perfume, f**k you.
• I always look tired.
• Net neutrality is an extremely important rule keeping the internet a level playing field. Otherwise, giant companies can pay for more speed

Sources

1. Glenn Howerton on wikipedia
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