Charlie sheen

Born on September 3, 1965 in New York, Carlos Irwin Estévez is the third of four children born to actors Martin Sheen and Janet Templeton. Both his older brothers –Emilio Estévez and Ramón Estévez– and his younger sister –Renée Estévez– are dedicated to acting. When his father succeeded in the Broadway theater with “The Subject Was Roses”, the whole family moved to Los Angeles so that he could work in the cinema.

Charlie Sheen aspired to become an actor since he could remember. At the age of 9 he debuted with a small role alongside his father in the TV movie The Execution of Private Slovik . When he turned 14, the entire clan accompanied Martin Sheen to the Philippines, where the complex filming of Apocalypse Now took place.. “My mother decided that the family would stay together as we traveled the world living in hotel rooms and watching my father make movies. I understand the decision to take us out of school because schools come and go, but family is for always,” said the actor. And while both he and his siblings enjoyed the Filipino experience as if it were an adventure, his father suffered a heart attack from the stress. Luckily, he was able to recover, as the film became a huge success.

Back in California, Charlie Sheen became the star player on the Santa Monica High School baseball team. There he had Rob Lowe and his brother Chad as classmates , with whom he shot Super 8 movies. He was also a model student until he succumbed to alcohol and drugs at 16, for which he began to miss classes and his grades dropped. Charged with credit card forgery and marijuana possession, he was expelled from the center within weeks of graduation, dashing his aspirations to become a professional baseball player.

Disappointed by this episode, his father seriously tells him that if he is not going to go to school anymore, he should get to work. Charlie replies, “Great, then I’ll do what you do.” He decides to take the stage name of his father, Sheen (adopted in honor of Catholic Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, proclaimed Venerable by Benedict XVI), and goes to many castings.

He was immediately hired by the director John Milius to play Matt, a student turned guerrilla when the USSR conquered the United States, in Red Dawn , whose crazy plot drew attention to the point that it became a huge hit. In Lucas , he played a popular student and athlete determined to protect the leading nerd, but although his character was secondary, he stole the role from Corey Haim and the rest of the cast, which included a newcomer Winona Ryder .

But Charlie Sheen ‘s career peaked when Oliver Stone cast him as his alter ego in Platoon , partially based on his experiences during the Vietnam War. He played Chris Taylor, a boy from a good family who volunteers and ends up somewhere on the Cambodian border, in a company marked by the bad relationship between Sergeant Barnes ( Tom Berenger ) and Sergeant Elias ( Willem Dafoe ). The film won 4 Oscars in the category of film, director, editing and sound.

Stone recruited him again for one of the best films of his filmography, Wall Street , where Charlie Sheen played the ambitious stockbroker Bud Fox, who in order to rise in the world of finance allies himself with the powerful Gordon Gekko, a type of few scruples when it comes to earning money. For playing the latter, Michael Douglas won the Oscar for lead actor. For his part, Sheen Jr. shared the screen with his father, Martin Sheen , who also worked as such in fiction.

After the success of the western Young Gun , where he shared the screen with his brother Emilio Estevez , and of the sports comedy A Woman in the League , in The Beginner the actor puts himself under the command of Clint Eastwood . He also plays the lead, a tough Dirty Harry- esque cop who must deal with a rookie partner (Sheen). The parodic Hot Shots and its sequel also did well at the box office .

Unfortunately, Sheen never knew how to assimilate so much success. “As children they teach us how to deal with failure. They repeat to us that if things go wrong, we have to keep trying again and again. But, what if it goes well for you from the start? I was disoriented and didn’t know what to do,” he commented. the actor, who went astray. After breaking up with her girlfriend, Paula Profit, mother of her daughter Cassandra, he became engaged to actress Kelly Preston ( Jerry Maguire ), but she was accidentally shot in the arm by her while she was at her house. , which raised a huge media outcry. According to the official version, Ella Preston shot herself, but she immediately broke up with him and married John Travolta .. Sheen entered a rehab clinic for his alcohol problems. Later he married a certain Donna Peele, but it did not take long for him to divorce.

The chaos that his personal life had become was reflected in his career. After the failed The Three Musketeers (1993), he is relegated to by-products like the thriller Terminal Velocity , the unexciting sci-fi film They Have Arrived! or the action comedy Money Comes First , with Chris Tucker . It can be said that he did not shoot anything worth mentioning for the cinema again, except for the fact that he played himself in a cameo in How to be John Malkovich .

At the beginning of the 21st century, it seemed that Charlie Sheen could overcome his dalliances with alcohol and drugs. He went through a period of stability, after marrying another actress, Denise Richards , in 2002. He had two new daughters with her, and it seemed that everything was going well, until Richards found out through the media that her husband had He had been in a relationship with a porn actress, so he immediately filed for divorce. The actor had a hard time overcoming this episode and was admitted to the emergency room for an overdose. His father, always a very discreet family man, came to give a press conference to announce that Charlie would recover, and that when he got out of the hospital he would go to a rehabilitation clinic.

He was on his way to reintegration when the prosecution charged him as a client of Heidi Fleiss, director of a luxury prostitution agency. Sheen reached an immunity pact in exchange for testifying against her, but her career on the big screen had suffered a final blow. He took refuge in television, as he was the substitute for Michael J. Fox in the comedy Spin City . Subsequently, he was given the lead role of Two and a Half Men , a cynical, reveler character who seemed based on his own life.

On May 30, 2008, Sheen married Brooke Mueller (also known as Brooke Allen), an investor. It marked the third marriage for Sheen, and the first for Mueller. They both had twins in 2009, and although it seemed that the relationship was idyllic, the actor was arrested due to a complaint for domestic abuse. In his worst days, Sheen was the butt of many jokes, such as when Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes by announcing: “This is going to be a night of partying and a lot of alcohol, which is what Charlie Sheen would call breakfast.”

His departure from Two and a Half Men was followed like a soap opera by the press around the world. Sheen publicly insulted Chuck Lorre , creator of the series, and CBS made the actor’s firing public through a press release. His character died in fiction, and he was replaced as the protagonist by Ashton Kutcher .

“I have behaved like a lunatic. I would not do something like that again and I have tried to apologize to Chuck Lorre . At that time I did not use drugs, but I imagine that there were other things that went wrong in my brain. My behavior has no excuses, “he explained. the actor. He had no choice but to find a new series, Anger Management , based on the feature film of the same name – known in Spain as Aggressive Executive –, where he plays a former athlete turned therapist.

For years, Charlie Sheen rarely walks through the movies. He very briefly reprized his character from Bud Fox in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , appears in the comedies Scary Movie 3 , Scary Movie 4 and Scary Movie 5 , and plays an unlikely President of the United States in Machete Kills .