Emilio Estevez

Emilio Estevez (born May 12, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker.

He is the son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen.

He lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side until his family moved west in 1968 when his father was cast in Catch-22.

Growing up in Malibu, California, Estevez attended Santa Monica High School.

When Estevez was 11 years old, his father bought the family a portable movie camera.

Estevez also appeared in Meet Mr. Bomb, a short anti-nuclear power film produced at his high school.

Estevez was 14 when he accompanied his father to the Philippines, where Sheen was shooting Apocalypse Now.

Estevez had a role as an extra in Apocalypse Now, but his scenes were deleted.

When they returned to Los Angeles, Estevez co-wrote and starred in a high school play about Vietnam veterans called Echoes of an Era and invited his parents to watch it.

Sheen recalls being astonished by his son's performance, and "began to realize: my God, he's one of us."

Estevez started his acting career in the 1980s and was one of a group of actors known as the Brat Pack.

After graduating from Santa Monica High in 1980, he refused to go to college and instead went into acting.

Unlike his brother Charlie, Estevez and his other siblings did not adopt their father's stage name.

Emilio reportedly liked the alliteration of the double 'E' initials, and "didn't want to ride into the business as 'Martin Sheen's son'."

Upon his brother's using his birth name Carlos Estevez for the film Machete Kills, Estevez mentioned that he was proud of his Spanish heritage and was glad that he never adopted a stage name, taking advice from his father who regretted adopting the name Martin Sheen as opposed to using his birth name, Ramón Estévez.

His first role was in a drama produced by the Catholic Paulist order.

Soon after, he made his stage debut with his father in Mister Roberts at Burt Reynolds' dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida (this was the only job his father ever placed him in).

Estevez received much attention during the 1980s for being a member of the Brat Pack and was credited as the leader of the group of young actors.

Estevez and Rob Lowe established the Brat Pack when cast as supporting "Greasers" in an early Brat Pack movie, The Outsiders based on the novel.

Lowe was cast as C. Thomas Howell's older brother Sodapop and Estévez as Two-Bit Mathews.

During production, he approached his character as a laid-back guy and thought up Two-Bit's interest in Mickey Mouse, shown by his uniform of Mickey Mouse T-shirts and watching of cartoons.

Later, father and son worked together in the 1982 ABC-TV film about juveniles in jail, In the Custody of Strangers, in which Estevez did the casting.

Besides his roles in In the Custody of Strangers and The Outsiders, his credits include NBC-TV's thrillers Nightmares and Tex, the 1982 film version of another S.E. Hinton story.

He bought the movie rights to a third Hinton book, That Was Then, This Is Now, and wrote the screenplay.

His father predicted he would have to direct to feel the full extent of his talents, describing him as "an officer, not a soldier."

After The Outsiders, Estevez appeared as the punk-rocker turned car-repossessor Otto Maddox in the film Repo Man before co-starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.

Following the success of these back-to-back Brat Pack films, he starred in That Was Then, This Is Now (which he co-wrote), the horror film Maximum Overdrive (for which he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award), and the crime drama Wisdom (with fellow Brat Packer Demi Moore).

Estevez was originally cast in Platoon to be Private Chris Taylor but was forced to drop out after production was delayed for two years; the role eventually went to his younger brother Charlie Sheen.

He went on to lead roles in the comedy/action film Stakeout and the westerns Young Guns and Young Guns II.

He is notable for starring in The Outsiders (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Wisdom (1986).

Estevez also starred in two film franchises: Young Guns (1988) and its 1990 sequel, and The Mighty Ducks (1992–1996; 2021).

Estevez was born in the Bronx, the oldest child of artist Janet Sheen and actor Martin Sheen (legally Ramón Estévez).

His siblings are Ramon Estevez, Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Estévez), and Renée Estevez.

Estevez's paternal grandparents were Irish and Spanish immigrants.

His father is a "devout Catholic" and his mother is a "strict Southern Baptist."

Estevez initially attended school in the New York City public school system but transferred to a private academy once his father's career took off.

He is also known for appearing in Men at Work (1990), Freejack (1992), Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996), Rated X (2000), and Bobby (2006) (which he also wrote and directed).

In the early 1990s, Estevez directed, wrote, and starred with his brother Charlie in a comedy about garbagemen, Men at Work.

Estevez later stated, "People come up to me on the street and say, Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen."

In 1992, he found the career longevity that escaped other Brat Packers by starring in The Mighty Ducks as Coach Gordon Bombay, a lawyer and former pee wee star and minor hockey prodigy looking to forget the past, forced into coaching a pee wee hockey team as a form of community service.