Personal life

McBride was born in Statesboro, Georgia. His mother, Kathy Rudy, and his stepfather both work at Marine Corps Base Quantico as civilian support. On his father's side, McBride has mostly English with small amounts of Scots-Irish, with ancestors from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. His mother performed sermons in church using puppets, and McBride stated that his "interest in telling stories comes from her". He was raised in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, where he graduated from Courtland High School and attended North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

McBride married Gia Ruiz in October 2010, at the Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs, California, and they have a son named Declan who was born in 2011.

Career

In 2006, McBride played Fred Simmons in the low-budget comedy film The Foot Fist Way, which he co-wrote with collaborators Jody Hill and Ben Best. He appeared in character as Simmons to promote the film on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on February 26, 2008. He wrote and starred in the HBO original comedy series Eastbound & Down (also a collaboration with Hill and Best), as Kenny Powers, a washed up former major league baseball pitcher with anger management issues. The series was produced by Gary Sanchez Productions, and the pilot episode premiered on February 15, 2009 featuring guest appearances from frequent collaborators Will Ferrell and Craig Robinson.

On April 8, 2009, HBO announced it had renewed the series for a second season. On July 2, 2012 HBO renewed the series for a fourth season. In March 2009, because of his role as Powers, he received an offer to play professional baseball for the Pensacola Pelicans, a minor league team in the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

In 2010, he signed an endorsement deal with K-Swiss shoes and played the eponymous roadie in the Tenacious D music video for "Roadie" in 2012. Additional film appearances include All the Real Girls, Hot Rod, Land of the Lost, 30 Minutes or Less, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, Observe and Report, Due Date, Up in the Air, Your Highness and This Is the End.

In 2014, McBride and Hill created and began filming the comedy series Vice Principals for HBO.

Frequent collaborations
Year	Title	Seth Rogen	James Franco	Jonah Hill	Jay Baruchel	Danny McBride	Craig Robinson	Steve Carell	Paul Rudd	Jason Segel	Elizabeth Banks	Judd Apatow	Leslie Mann	Michael Cera	Bill Hader
1999	Freaks and Geeks	Yes	Yes							Yes		Yes	Yes
2004	Anchorman	Yes						Yes	Yes			Yes
2005	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Yes		Yes				Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes
2007	Knocked Up	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes
2007	Superbad	Yes		Yes								Yes		Yes	Yes
2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story			Yes			Yes		Yes			Yes
2008	Pineapple Express	Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes					Yes			Yes
2008	Tropic Thunder				Yes	Yes									Yes
2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist				Yes									Yes
2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Yes					Yes				Yes
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall			Yes					Yes	Yes		Yes			Yes
2008	Horton Hears a Who!	Yes		Yes				Yes
2009	Funny People	Yes		Yes								Yes	Yes
2009	Fanboys	Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes
2010	How to Train Your Dragon			Yes	Yes
2011	Your Highness		Yes			Yes
2012	This Is 40								Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes
2013	This Is the End	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes				Yes
2013	Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues							Yes	Yes			Yes
2014	The Interview	Yes	Yes
2014	How to Train Your Dragon 2			Yes	Yes
2016	Sausage Party	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes		Yes						Yes

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	All the Real Girls	Bust-Ass
2006	The Foot Fist Way	Fred Simmons	Writer
2007	Hot Rod	Rico Brown
2007	Superbad	Buddy at Party	Uncredited
2007	The Heartbreak Kid	Martin
2008	Drillbit Taylor	Don Armstrong
2008	Pineapple Express	Red
2008	Tropic Thunder	Cody Underwood
2009	Fanboys	Head of Security	Uncredited
2009	Observe and Report	Caucasian Crackhead
2009	Land of the Lost	Will Stanton
2009	Up in the Air	Jim Miller
2010	Despicable Me	Fred McDade (voice)
2010	Due Date	Lonnie
2011	Your Highness	Thadeous	Writer Executive producer
2011	Kung Fu Panda 2	Wolf Boss (voice)
2011	30 Minutes or Less	Dwayne King
2013	As I Lay Dying	Vernon Tull
2013	This Is the End	Danny McBride
2014	The Sound and the Fury	Police Sheriff	Cameo
2015	Don Verdean	Tony Lazarus
2015	Aloha	Colonel Lacy
2015	Hell and Back	Orpheus (voice)
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Bomb (voice)
2016	Sausage Party	(voice)
2016	In Dubious Battle	Tramp	Filming
2017	Alien: Covenant		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Drunk History	George Washington	Volume 3
2009-2013	Eastbound & Down	Kenny Powers	Creator Writer Executive producer Series regular
2011	Good Vibes	Voneeta Teets (voice)	Series regular
2013	Clear History	Frank	Movie
2014	Chozen	Jimmy (voice)	Series regular Executive producer
2016	Vice Principals	Neal Gamby	Filming

Other

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Fight for Your Right Revisited	MCA	Music video
2012	Roadie	Sebastian "The Roadie"	Music video
2013	YOLO	Drug-dealer	Cameo The Lonely Island song
2013	Grand Theft Auto V	Duane Earl	Video game My Blaine County DJ

[ Source: Wikipedia ]