Charlie Sheen

Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.

He is known as a leading man in film and television.

Over his fifty-year career he has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, in New York City, the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen (whose real name is Ramón Estévez) and artist Janet Templeton.

His paternal grandparents were emigrants from Galicia (Spain) and Ireland, respectively.

Sheen's first movie appearance was at age nine in his father's 1974 film The Execution of Private Slovik.

Sheen attended Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California, along with Robert Downey Jr., where he was a star pitcher and shortstop for the baseball team.

At Santa Monica High School, he showed an early interest in acting, making amateur Super 8 films with his brother Emilio and school friends Rob Lowe and Sean Penn under his birth name.

A few weeks before graduation, Sheen was expelled from school for poor grades and attendance.

Deciding to become an actor, he took the stage name Charlie Sheen.

His father had adopted the surname Sheen in honor of the Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen, while Charlie was an English form of his given name Carlos.

Sheen's film career began in 1983, when he was cast to portray Ron in Grizzly II: The Predator, the sequel to the 1976 low-budget horror movie Grizzly, which remained unreleased until 2020.

Sheen starred in a slew of successful films such as Red Dawn (1984), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), and The Arrival (1996).

In 1984, he had a role in the Cold War teen drama Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey.

Sheen and Grey reunited in a small scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

He also appeared in an episode of the anthology series Amazing Stories.

Sheen had his first major role in the Vietnam War drama Platoon (1986).

In 1987, he starred with his father in Wall Street.

Both Wall Street and Platoon were directed by Oliver Stone.

In 1988, Stone asked Sheen to star in his new film Born on the Fourth of July (1989) but later cast Tom Cruise instead.

Sheen was never notified by Stone, and he only found out when he heard the news from his brother Emilio.

Sheen did not take a lead role in Stone's subsequent films, although he did have a cameo role in Money Never Sleeps.

In 1988, he starred in the baseball film Eight Men Out as outfielder Happy Felsch.

Also in 1988, he appeared opposite his brother Emilio in Young Guns and again in 1990 in Men at Work.

In 1989, Sheen, John Fusco, Christopher Cain, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estévez and Kiefer Sutherland were honored with a Bronze Wrangler for their work on the film Young Guns.

In 1990, he starred alongside his father in Cadence as a rebellious inmate in a military stockade and with Clint Eastwood in the buddy cop film The Rookie.

The films were directed by Sheen and Eastwood, respectively.

In 1992, he featured in Beyond the Law with Linda Fiorentino and Michael Madsen.

In 1994 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Sheen followed in the footsteps of his father Martin Sheen in becoming an actor.

In 1994, Sheen was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 1997, Sheen wrote his first movie, Discovery Mars, a direct-to-video documentary revolving around the question, "Is There Life on Mars?".

In the 2000s, when Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of ABC's Spin City, his portrayal of Charlie Crawford earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–11), for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations, and as Dr. Charles "Charlie" Goodson on the FX series Anger Management (2012–14).

In 2010, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.

Sheen was terminated from his Two and a Half Men contract by CBS and Warner Bros. following a public series of substance-abuse issues, marital problems and comments made towards the series' creator, Chuck Lorre.

Sheen said in 2011 that his father was Catholic and his mother was Southern Baptist.

He has two older brothers, Emilio and Ramon, and a younger sister, Renée, all actors.

His parents moved to Malibu, California, after Martin's Broadway run in The Subject Was Roses.

In 2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he is HIV positive which led to an increase in HIV prevention and testing which was dubbed the "Charlie Sheen effect".