David Hornsby

David Hornsby, born 1975 in Houston, Texas is an American television and film actor and writer. Hornsby was born in 1975 in Newport News, Virginia. He grew up in Houston, Texas. He majored in acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.




Career


Hornsby plays defrocked priest Matthew Mara, AKA "Rickety Cricket," on the FX comedy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; he also serves as a co-executive producer. Hornsby has made many television appearances, notably as Steve "The Hutch" Hutchinson in the TV Series The Joe Schmo Show, and as Patrick in a multi-episode arc on Six Feet Under. He is notable for his voice as Fanboy in Fanboy and Chum Chum. He co-starred with Paul Giamatti, Billy Crudup, and Kristen Wiig in the independent film Pretty Bird. He has also appeared in Pearl Harbor, Minority Report, and Flags of Our Fathers (the last as USMC photographer Louis R. Lowery, who took the picture of the first flag raising on Iwo Jima).
He also created and performed in the podcast "Yoda and Me" along with Loren Tarquinio.
He is set to star in the new CBS series How to Be a Gentleman, the pilot will be aired this fall.




Personal life


Hornsby married actress Emily Deschanel on September 25, 2010, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.
On March 31, 2011, it was announced that the couple was expecting their first child due in autumn. Their son, Henry, was born September 21, 2011.