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Rob McElhenney
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American actor and producer
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Rob McElhenney, born Robert McElhenney III on 14 April 1977 in Philadelphia, is an American actor and screenwriter who has worked in both television and film. His work includes It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He began his career in 1997 and also uses the pseudonym Rob Mac. He is Catholic and lives in Los Angeles.
McElhenney is married to Kaitlin Olson and has two children.
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Film & TV
Acting · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Robert Dale "Rob" McElhenney (born April 14, 1977) is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Mac on the FX TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He is also credited as creator, developer and executive producer of the show, which has also provided McElhenney with writing and directing credits on various episodes. He is married to Kaitlin Olson, who plays Deandra…
Known for
- PaleyLive: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 20th Anniversary Celebration! — Self2025
- Side Quest — Ian Grimm2025
- Necaxa — Self2025
- Deadpool & Wolverine — TVA Soldier2024
- All Town Aren't We — Self2024
- Hot Ones Versus — Self2024
- Welcome to Wrexham — Self2022
- Snacked — Self2021
- Abbott Elementary — Mac2021
- Mythic Quest — Ian Grimm2020
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Rob McElhenney (b. 1977, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor of film and television best known for his role as Mac on the FX TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He is also credited as creator, developer and executive producer for the show, which has also provided McElhenney with writing and directing credits on various episodes. He "played" lead guitar for the band Chemical Toilet. Here is the only recorded track they've made (so far): zshare.net/audio/138223684d47aa98/ <
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,951x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,798x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,665x
- UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection
· 2011 · cited 13,549x
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Key facts
- Born
- Robert McElhenney III , ( 1977-04-14 ) April 14, 1977 (age 49) , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Other name
- Rob Mac
- Education
- Temple University (dropped out)
- Occupations
- Actor writer producer director podcaster businessman
- Years active
- 1996–present
- Spouse
- Kaitlin Olson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 )
- Relatives
- Marcus McElhenney (cousin), Katie McElhenney (sister)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Spouse
- Kaitlin Olson
- Occupation
- showrunner
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Image
- Rob McElhenney by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Rob McElhenney
- date of birth
- 1977-04-14
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- social media followers
- 981822
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Robert McElhenney III
- pseudonym
- Rob Mac
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert McElhenney III (/ˈmækəlhɛni/ MAK-əl-hen-ee; born April 14, 1977), also known professionally as Rob Mac, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and businessman. He is best known for his role as Mac on the FX/FXX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), a show he created and co-developed with Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton and on which he continues to serve as an executive producer and writer. He is also known for playing Ian Grimm on the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest (2020–2025), which he co-created with Day and Megan Ganz as executive producers.
In September 2020, Mac became the co-owner of the Welsh football club Wrexham A.F.C. with Ryan Reynolds; this has been covered in the FX sports documentary series Welcome to Wrexham (2022–present), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program as one of the executive producers.
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