It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Danny DeVito stars as "Frank Reynolds" in the critically-acclaimed FXX original series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Career Highlights

Danny DeVito is one of the entertainment industry’s most versatile players, excelling as an actor, producer and director.The award-winning performance as Louie De Palma on the television show “Taxi” was what propelled DeVito to national prominence. He won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe. In a 1999 readers’ poll conducted by TV Guide, DeVito’s Louie De Palma was voted No. 1 among “TV’s 50 Greatest Characters Ever.”DeVito co-runs Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, a successor company of Jersey Films, alongside two of his children, Lucy DeVito and Jake DeVito. Through Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, he most recently produced the comedy thriller feature film “Drag,” starring Lucy DeVito, Lizzy Caplan, John Stamos and Christine Ko, which made its world premiere at SXSW in March of this year. He served as an executive producer on Amazon Prime Video’s docuseries “Game 7” with Jake and Lucy, which premiered in 2024, and their animated comedy “Little Demon” was picked up by FXX in 2022, including characters voiced by DeVito, Lucy DeVito and Aubrey Plaza, with Dan Harmon executive producing.DeVito is next set to appear in Sony’s upcoming “Jumanji: Open World,” due to be released on Dec. 25, 2026. He joined the franchise in the previous film “Jumanji: Next Level.”He most recently wrapped production on the history-making 18th season of FXX’s acclaimed cult comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” returning as Frank Reynolds, solidifying the show’s record as the longest-running scripted comedy in television history. He was seen in 2025 as Frank both in the 17th season of the show and in “Abbott Elementary” for a special crossover episode.In 2024, DeVito reunited with friend and former co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Super Bowl commercial for State Farm, and again on stage presenting together at the 96th Academy Awards. In March of last year, he narrated his role in the beloved 1996 classic “Matilda,” with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performing the music live while the film played on screen, and most recently did an encore live performance in Toronto in January 2025.DeVito was honored on March 10, 2025, by the Roundabout Theatre with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre at their annual gala. He returned to Broadway in fall-winter of 2023 in a brand-new play called “I Need That” at the Roundabout Theatre. Written by Theresa Rebeck, he acted alongside his daughter Lucy, who made her Broadway debut. He had previously made his Broadway debut in 2017 in Arthur Miller’s “The Price” in the role of Gregory Solomon, earning him his first Tony Award nomination. He won a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for the role. DeVito jokes that he started his acting career in off-off-off Broadway theater.In film, he was also recently seen in a cameo appearance in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” which was released in theaters September 2024, and marked the sixth time he and Director Tim Burton had worked together. In 2023, he was heard voicing Uncle Dan in the warmly received Universal family film “Migration.” Other recent television appearances include Mel Brooks’ “History of the World: Part II” and in a guest role in the first season of Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method.”DeVito’s other recent VO work includes voicing the character Bob for Walt Disney Pictures’ “The One and Only Ivan,” released in 2020. In 2018, he was heard voicing Dorgle in Warner Bros.’ animated feature “Smallfoot.” Other voiced characters include the Lorax in Universal Pictures’ animated feature, “The Lorax,” based on the book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. His voice was also heard in the German, Russian, Spanish and Italian versions of the film.In 2016, he was in Sony Classics’ “The Comedian,” with Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann, directed by Taylor Hackford. DeVito directed, starred in and co-produced the short film “Curmudgeons,” which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was later seen at the 2016 Seattle Film Festival and the 2016 London Film Festival. The same year, DeVito also co-starred in Todd Solondz’s dark comedy “Wiener-Dog.”In 2012, DeVito and Richard Griffiths received rave reviews in the London stage revival of Neil Simon’s comedy “The Sunshine Boys.” The following year, DeVito reprised his critically acclaimed role together with former “Taxi” co-star Judd Hirsch in Los Angeles.In 2015, DeVito was executive producer on the biographical documentary “Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story.” In 2014, he co-produced Universal Pictures’ crime drama, “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” and starred in “All the Wilderness.” In 2012, DeVito starred in Sebastian Gutierrez’s black and white crime drama, “Hotel Noir.”Throughout his career, DeVito has directed over 25 projects, including “Matilda,” “Death to Smoochy,” “The War of the Roses,” “Hoffa,” “Throw Momma from the Train,” “The Ratings Game” and numerous short films, TV movies and episodes of television, including “Taxi.”Jersey Films has produced over 20 motion pictures, including “Freedom Writers,” “Be Cool,” “Garden State,” “Along Came Polly,” “Man on the Moon,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Out of Sight,” “Get Shorty,” “Hoffa,” “Matilda,” “Living Out Loud” and “Erin Brockovich,” which was nominated for an Academy Award.Apart from his work with Jersey Films, DeVito has starred in such films as “The War of the Roses,” “Junior,” “Batman Returns,” “Twins,” “Romancing the Stone,” “Jewel of the Nile,” “Ruthless People,” “Throw Momma From the Train,” “Tin Men,” “Anything Else,” “Big Fish,” “Renaissance Man,” “The Big Kahuna” and “Heist.” He also starred in “The Good Night,” “Deck the Halls,” “Relative Strangers,” “The OH in Ohio,” “Be Cool” and “Even Money.”DeVito attended Our Lady of Mt. Carmel grammar school and Oratory Prep School in Summit, N.J., but appeared in only one school play, as St. Francis of Assisi. After graduation, he pursued several odd jobs, always with the idea of acting in the back of his mind. He finally entered the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York."They had fencing and a speech class," he said mockingly, “so you don't talk funny.”Unable to get work, DeVito bought a round-trip ticket and headed to Hollywood. After years of unemployment, he returned to New York. He called an old friend and former American Academy professor who, coincidentally, had been seeking him out for a starring role in one of three one-act plays presented together under the title of "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth." Soon, DeVito was into big money ($60 a week) and other stage performances followed. Among his credits were "Down the Morning Line," "The Line of Least Existence," "The Shrinking Bride" and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.”In 1975, under a grant from the American Film Institute, DeVito and his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, wrote and produced "Minestrone," which has been shown twice at the Cannes Film Festival and has been translated into five languages. Later they wrote and produced a 16-millimeter black-and-white short subject, "The Sound Sleeper," which won first prize at the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association competition.In 2018, the mayor of Asbury Park, N.J.—the town in which he was raised—declared Nov. 17 (DeVito’s birthday) as Danny DeVito Day in the city of Asbury Park, in perpetuity.DeVito carries his success well. Never forgetting that there were more difficult times, he maintains a healthy sense of perspective. As "Taxi" character Louie DePalma would say, "if you don't do good today, you'll be eatin' dirt tomorrow."

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Danny DeVito stars as "Frank Reynolds" in the critically-acclaimed FXX original series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Career Highlights

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Rob Macas Mac / Creator / Showrunner / Executive Producer / Writer

Mary Elizabeth Ellis
as The Waitress

Rob Mac
as Mac / Creator / Showrunner / Executive Producer / Writer