From his biography, he was born in the city of Pennsylvania in the West Chester. He is a son of Charlie McDermott and of Barbara. His father is entrepreneur and he owns the health clubs. He was born with two sisters, Grace and Erin. He went to High school of Salesianum for some time in the city of Delaware in Wilmington and she enrolled into it after the graduation from the PA in Leadership Charter School or PALCS. This is a cyber school in Pennsylvania and he moved to start living in Los Angeles when she was 16 years old. From 2004, he has been in different movies and tv shows and these include Private Practice and The Office. The biggest role he had is playing in Disapperances where he was Wild Bill and in Frozen River where he was T.J Eddy. In the year 2008, he got the nomination of Independent Spirit Award for the categories of Best Supporting Actor for the performance in Frozen River. For his age, he was born in 1990, April 6.

Charlie Mcdermott is involved into all aspects of the movies like directing, movie making, scouting for filming location and for editing. His parents help him by driving him around the town. When the camera got rolled, he started to enjoy his craft when he becomes an actor. While in school, the teacher were allowing him to submit the film on a certain topic about the history or the religion project he was given.

He got his first role when he played in the M Night Shyamalan film called The Village. He was playing like a 10 year old boy who was sent to give the message that the creatures are in the village to William Hurt. He attended an open casting call since he was interested in observing Mr Night while working and wished that he can be an extra in a movie. However, he never knew that he can be able to work with this director. After the encouragement he got, he started to be interested in acting like a career.

After a year of doing commercials, he got a role in the PBS television comedy that won New England Emmy Award. The comedy was called Windy Acres. For the role of Wild Bill Bonhomme, even when he was not aware that he would make it, he started to train for the role, he did intensive physical training program and he was rising before the time to lift the weights and to swim. He started to chop the firewood with an ax and worked on the farm. He was chosen a week before the shooting. His net worth is two millions and his twitter is @charliemcdrmott.