Glenn Howerton Net Worth, Movies and Always Sunny Season 13

Best known for: Dennis Reynolds in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ·
Net worth: $25 million, per Celebrity Net Worth (celebrity wealth tracker) ·
Born: April 13, 1976, Okinawa, Japan (Cine Net Worth, entertainment finance tracker) ·
Per-episode salary: Not publicly disclosed ·
Season 13 status: Dennis absent for most of the season

Seven rows, one pattern: the public record is solid on career milestones and thin on personal finances.

Who created Always Sunny?

Rob McElhenney created the show, which premiered on FX in 2005 and later moved to FXX; McElhenney developed it with Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton (Wikipedia’s season 13 record, a community-maintained reference). That shared development credit is why Howerton is routinely described as a co-creator, even when his formal title is actor-producer.

Why is Always Sunny not cancelled?

• The renewal record is the short answer: the network kept ordering new seasons.
• A long run on FX and FXX gave the show a stable home, and the core cast stayed together.

Cancellation stories need a cancellation. In two decades of premature predictions, the show simply kept getting renewed.

Did they replace Dee on Always Sunny?

• No. Kaitlin Olson still plays Dee Reynolds, and season 13 recaps list Olson throughout.
• The absence storyline that season centered on Dennis, not on any recast.

The closest the show came to a cast shakeup was Howerton’s reduced schedule — and even that was temporary.

What this means: the franchise’s ownership and its core cast never changed, and that continuity is part of why the question keeps coming up.

What movies has Glenn Howerton been in?

Film work is a smaller slice of his résumé than his TV run, but it has range: The Strangers (2008), Coffee Town (2013), Crank and Crank: High Voltage, Must Love Dogs, Serenity, Two Weeks, and Officer Downe (TheRichest, a celebrity wealth database).

What was Glenn Howerton’s early TV credit list?

Early TV put him on the radar years before Sunny: (TheRichest’s career profile)

• Recurring early-2000s roles on That ’80s Show and ER.
• A 2002 TV-movie debut in Monday Night Mayhem.
• Voice work as Ernie Krinklesac on The Cleveland Show.

Where can readers see the complete filmography?

• IMDb is the standard public index for the full list (IMDb, a public filmography database).
• The profiles cited here cover main credits, not every guest spot.

The pattern: he tends to pick roles that let him play sharp-edged arrogance, and TV gives those characters more room to compound.

How much does Glenn Howerton make per episode?

There is no published per-episode salary. What exists are net-worth estimates, and they disagree. Yahoo Entertainment rounds up the spread — roughly $18 million to $25 million (Yahoo Entertainment, a news outlet) — while Cine Net Worth puts the figure at $18 million (Cine Net Worth, entertainment finance tracker) and Celebrity Net Worth’s $25 million estimate is the most widely repeated number. None of these are audited disclosures.

What is included in his net worth?

• Acting income from It’s Always Sunny, A.P. Bio, film roles, and voice work.
• Producing credits on both It’s Always Sunny and A.P. Bio, which typically carry some back-end earnings.
• Income from other projects across his filmography.

Are celebrity net worth reports official?

• No. They are estimates based on public information, not verified ledgers.
• Different sites use different methods, which is why one career produces three different numbers.

The implication: treat $18 million to $25 million as a range, not a paycheck.

What is Glenn Howerton’s illness?

The short answer: there is no credible public record of a medical illness. No major outlet has reported one, and Howerton has not confirmed a diagnosis himself.

Is there a confirmed medical diagnosis?

• No.
• The public record contains no diagnosis from Howerton or from his representatives.

Which health sources should be trusted?

• Statements from Howerton himself.
• Statements from his representatives or verified medical sources.
• Entertainment outlets only when they cite one of the above.

The season 13 absence was explained at the time as a scheduling shift, not a health issue, and no follow-up reporting has suggested otherwise.

The catch: a lighter season on screen is a work schedule, not a medical chart.

Did Glenn Howerton try to leave Sunny?

No. The record shows a recalibrated schedule, not a resignation. Looper reported that Howerton wanted to branch out after more than a decade on the show (Looper, an entertainment outlet) — and he did, by splitting his time. He came back as a regular for season 14, which is the clearest answer to whether he left.

Did Dennis actually leave Always Sunny?

• No. Dennis was still part of the core cast.
• The character got an in-story reason to be away for much of season 13.

Was Howerton’s absence temporary?

• Yes. Season 14 restored him to regular status.
• The show did not recast or kill off Dennis.

What this means: the exit question was never really about the character’s future. It was about whether Howerton would keep choosing to come back, and so far the answer has been yes.

Why was Dennis barely in season 13?

Dennis is absent for most of It’s Always Sunny season 13, a fact documented in the season’s Wikipedia recap (Wikipedia, community-maintained reference). The same record ties the reduced role to Howerton’s schedule on A.P. Bio, which was airing at the time. The show gave Dennis an in-story reason to be absent, and the cast carried the season without recasting or retiring the character.

What happened to Glenn Howerton in season 13?

• He was working on A.P. Bio, a show he starred in and produced.
• He appeared in a limited number of Sunny episodes that season.

Where is Dennis in Always Sunny season 13?

• Off-screen for most of the season.
• The scripts wrote around him rather than writing him out.

How does It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 13 end?

• The finale is “Mac Finds His Pride.”
• It ends with Mac’s dance performance, a climax the season’s recap highlights.

Why this matters: a scheduling trade-off changed the show’s texture for one season. It also proved Sunny could run without Dennis at full strength — and that Howerton would still come back.

Glenn Howerton career timeline

Six milestones, one through-line: every major turn leads back to Sunny.

1. 1976 — Born in Okinawa, Japan (Cine Net Worth, entertainment finance tracker).
2. Early 2000s — Early TV credits include recurring roles on That ’80s Show and ER.
3. 2005 — It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres; Howerton plays Dennis.
4. 2009 — Marries Jill Latiano (TheRichest, celebrity wealth database).
5. 2018 — Season 13 airs while Howerton focuses on A.P. Bio; Dennis is written out for much of the season.
6. 2019 — Returns as a regular for season 14.

Compiled from the profiles, Wikipedia record, and reporting cited above.

The pattern: the career never left the show; it just moved in and out of orbit.

Confirmed facts and open questions

Here is the split between what the public record verifies and what remains guesswork.

The split matters because rumors fill whatever the record leaves empty. The record leaves money and health questions empty.

What the cast has said

In March 2017, Howerton said a season 13 return wasn’t guaranteed, describing the decision as partly creative and partly personal.

Glenn Howerton, via the Wikipedia season 13 recap

McElhenney has framed the show’s longevity in simple terms: as long as the network wants more seasons and the core cast wants to make them, the Gang keeps going.

Rob McElhenney, in FX renewal coverage

Olson stayed as Dee through the entire season 13 run; the storyline was about Dennis’s absence, not a changing of the cast.

Kaitlin Olson, in season 13 cast interviews

The implication: three voices, one message — nobody left, and the show’s center held.

Related reading: Glenn Howerton: The Actor Behind Always Sunny’s Dennis Reynolds · Glenn Howerton: Biography, Always Sunny Exit & Career

Frequently asked questions

For readers, the FAQ answers are the tidy version; the sections above leave the uncertainty in — and the uncertainty is the real answer to Glenn Howerton’s career numbers.