Sheen Charlie Biography

Sheen Charlie  Biography

Born: September 03, 1965

A leading man who has displayed a knack for action, comedy, and dramatic roles, Charlie Sheen is almost as well recognized for his offscreen exploits as for his acting, although soon after suffering via scandals that would have ended several performers' careers, he overcame bad press and poor habits to take pleasure in a main comeback on tv in the late '90s. 

Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estevez to actor Martin Sheen (born Ramon Estevez) and his wife, Janet Templeton, in 1965. By all accounts, young Charlie wasn't an particularly distinguished student; although he was a star on Santa Monica High School's baseball team, he was expelled due to poor attendance and poor grades only several weeks prior to his class graduated. During his school days, Sheen developed an interest in filmmaking, producing amateur Super-8 films starring his school pals (who included Rob Lowe and Sean Penn), and right after leaving school, Sheen decided to take a stab at an acting career, like his father (and his older brother, Emilio Estevez).

While Sheen played a bit part in 1 of his father's films, The Execution of Private Slovik, when he was nine, he began his screen career in earnest in 1984, playing Matt Eckhart within the Cold War thriller Red Dawn. (Earlier that identical year, Sheen played a tiny role in a sequel to the horror film Grizzly which didn't see release until 1987; Grizzly 2: The Predator also featured a then-unknown George Clooney.) Soon after good-sized roles in several made-for-TV movies and smaller roles in better-known feature films (such as Lucas and Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Sheen got his huge break in 1986 when he was cast as Chris, a soldier with conscience in Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning Vietnam drama Platoon. In 1987, Sheen starred in Stone's next project, Wall Street, and soon after establishing himself as a solid dramatic actor, Sheen proved he also had a flair for comedy in the 1989 hit Key League. The role also gave Sheen a chance to show off his pitching arm; a year earlier, Sheen got to play real-life center fielder Hap Felsch in John Sayles' drama about the 1919 "Chicago Black Sox" scandal, Eight Men Out. Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military-film satire Hot Shots, and although box-office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box-office successes.

By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard-living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun-loving image began to take on a darker hue within the mid-'90s. In 1990, Sheen was engaged to marry actress Kelly Preston, but she left him shortly right after an incident in which he accidentally shot her in the arm. In 1995, Sheen tied the knot with model Donna Peele, but the marriage ended in divorce only 14 months later. 

The same year he was wed, Sheen was known as to testify in the trial of "Hollywood Madame" Heidi Fleiss, and admitted he was a frequent customer of Fleiss' call girl service, spending over 50,000 dollars on the services of prostitutes. In the wake of the Heidi Fleiss scandal, Sheen did himself no favors in terms of public relations by openly dating a pair of adult film actresses, Ginger Lynn Allen and Brittany Ashland; his relationship with Ashland came to an end when she filed assault charges against him. Sheen's bad-boy image turned specially grim in 1998, when he was hospitalized for drug and alcohol abuse; soon after a short-lived stay in rehab, Sheen gave sobriety an additional try, and by 1999 he was, by all accounts, clean and sober and ready to get his career back on track. In 1999, Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez, cast him as real-life adult filmmaker Artie Mitchell inside the made-for-cable feature Rated X -- a daring role, given Mitchell's drug abuse and sexual promiscuity -- as well as the following year, Sheen became Hollywood's comeback kid when he was cast within the leading role of the well-known scenario comedy Spin City right after the departure of actor Michael J.

Fox. In 2002, a clean, sober, and profitable Sheen created headlines when once more with his really like life, although this time in a positive manner: He announced his engagement to actress Denise Richards; alas, a lengthy marriage was not to be, and the couple divoced after four years. Beginning in 2003, Sheen signed for an ongoing role opposite Jon Cryer and Melanie Lynskey on the well-liked situation comedy Two and a Half Men.

Furthermore to his career as an actor, Sheen has also dabbled in production; he produced two of his films, Comicitis and also the Chase, just before forming a production business with rock singer Bret Michaels.

 Sheen also wrote the screenplay for the company's very first release, No Code of Conduct. In addition, Sheen published a book of his poetry, -A Peace of My Mind. Rovi