Charlie Runkle

As played by Evan handler

Evan Handler’s second season on CALIFORNICATION will complete a “trifecta” year for him: first, on May 1st, came the publication of his second book, It’s Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive, from Riverhead Books. Then, later that month, Handler reprised his leading role of “Harry Goldenblatt” in the box office sensation Sex and the City: The Movie. Handler’s past film and TV credits include leading and featured roles in Taps, Ransom, Sex and the City, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Three Stooges and It’s Like, You Know…, as well as memorable guest appearances on Lost, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Law and Order and Friends. Prior to his screen work, Handler played leading roles in seven Broadway productions, among them the world premiere production of Six Degrees of Separation, I Hate Hamlet, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and Master Harold…and the Boys. Handler’s critically acclaimed first memoir, Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors, chronicles his astonishing recovery from acute leukemia over 23 years ago.