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Carlos Irvin Estevez

(Spanish:
Carlos Irwin Estévez
), better known as
Charlie
Sheen (born September 3, 1965, New York, USA) is an American actor, screenwriter, and the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen.

Early in his career, he appeared in the films Platoon, The Vengeful Spirit and Wall Street. On television, he is known for his roles in the series “Spin City” and “Two and a Half Men,” in which he starred from 2003 to 2011. Charlie angered authorities by claiming the US government was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks and has appeared in a number of documentaries about 9/11. In 2010, Sheen became the highest paid television actor with earnings of $1.8 million per episode. He is also known for his numerous scandals in his personal and public life, including drug and alcohol abuse. On March 7, 2011, the artist was fired by CBS and Warner Bros. Television from the series, receiving compensation in the amount of $25 million [ source not specified 2045 days

]. On November 17, 2020, Charlie Sheen admitted that he is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). According to his own words, he was diagnosed about four years ago[4].

American "pioneer" from "Red Dawn"

The news that Charlie Sheen is HIV-positive hardly surprised those who closely followed the life of the Hollywood star. What's more surprising is that this only happened four years ago, and that Mr. Sheen is still alive at all, given the way he acts.

Charlie Sheen was born on September 3, 1965 in New York, in the family of actor Ramon Gerardo Antonio Estevez , better known as Martin Sheen . All of Sheen Sr.'s children went on to work in the film industry, but the youngest son, Carlos Irvin Estevez , aka Charlie Sheen, achieved the greatest success.

In 1974, Charlie made his debut on television, playing a role with his father in the film “The Execution of Private Slovik.” His film debut took place 10 years later in the political action film “Red Dawn,” which tells about the fantastic Soviet-Cuban occupation of the United States.

19-year-old Charlie Sheen found himself in great company with future Hollywood stars such as Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Gray . All these young shoots portrayed these young American partisans smashing the “Soviet occupiers.”

Since “Red Dawn” was being smashed on all corners in the USSR at that time, while showing footage from the film, domestic audiences were able to see Charlie Sheen for the first time.

Childhood and youth

• Charlie Sheen was born in New York City to Martin Sheen and Janet Sheen. The boy's father is a famous actor in Hollywood, and his mother is an artist. He has 2 brothers and a sister.
• All of Sheena's brothers and sister are actors who moved to Malibu, California due to their father's fame. Charlie Sheen's first film appearance took place at the age of 9 in the film “The Execution of Private Slovik.”
• This actor studied at Santa Monica High School, located in California. The boy began acting at a young age. He played his first acting role in the film “The Execution of Private Slovik” together with his brother Emilio Estevez, friends and actors Rob Lowe and Sean Penn.

The guy from "Platoon"

However, after two years one could forget about “Red Dawn” - Charlie Sheen starred in the film directed by Oliver Stone “Platoon”. The film about the Vietnam War won four Oscars, and Charlie Sheen gained almost the official status of a rising Hollywood star.

In 1987, Oliver Stone's new film Wall Street was released, telling the story of the rise and fall of young broker Bud Fox . Charlie Sheen was invited to play the role of Bud Fox, and he again did a brilliant job. However, it was not he who received the Oscar for Best Actor in Wall Street, but his co-star Michael Douglas .

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Stone planned Sheen for the lead role in his next film, Born on the Fourth of July, but ultimately chose Tom Cruise . Oliver Stone no longer invited Charlie Sheen to play leading roles, and from that moment on, the actor gradually began to part with serious dramatic roles.

Perhaps Stone was one of the first to see that young Sheen was too partial to alcohol and other pleasures of life.

At first, however, this did not affect Shin's career in any way. He realized his childhood passion for baseball by starring in the films “Eight Out of the Game” and “Major League,” which were well received by critics and the public.

Charlie Sheen: photos, childhood

The future Hollywood star and conqueror of women's hearts was born on September 3, 1965 in the American city of New York. His real name is Carlos Irvin Estevez. The father of the future celebrity, Martin Sheen (this is his pseudonym), was a successful actor, and his mother, Janet Templeton, was an artist. It is interesting that not only Charlie followed in his parent’s footsteps, but also his two older brothers (Emilio and Ramon), as well as his younger sister (Rene). Some time after Charlie was born, his family moved to Malibu.

The boy attended school in Santa Monica, where he was on the baseball team. He was very passionate about this game, and the coaches even predicted a great future for him in the sport. However, Charlie felt a completely different calling within himself. Moreover, he grew up surrounded by like-minded friends, one of whom was Sean Pen, who later became a famous actor, and at that time was already making amateur films.

“Hot head” in cinema and in life

At the very beginning of the 1990s, Charlie Sheen was extremely in demand in Hollywood. In 1990, he starred in six films at once. True, many films with his participation turned out to be failures. The same, however, cannot be said about the 1991 comedy “Hot Shots!”, where Sheen played the main role. This picture, as well as its second part, were a wild success. From that moment on, Charlie Sheen began to be perceived primarily as a comedian.

However, by the mid-1990s, it became obvious that Charlie Sheen had serious problems, not only with alcohol, but also with drugs. He becomes a favorite of the paparazzi and a regular in scandalous chronicles. In his youth, Shin acquired the nickname “The Machine” for his ability to stay on his feet after the most hellish parties. The actor used this property of the body to the fullest, using all imaginable and inconceivable substances and leading such a promiscuous sex life that, in comparison, the porn industry is an institution for noble maidens.

Representatives of the porn industry, by the way, were especially attracted to Shin. They, in turn, were flattered by the attention of the Hollywood star.

A star on cocaine

In 1995, Charlie unexpectedly married actress Donna Peele , but their marriage lasted only six months. Shin stated that he was stifled by internal unfreedom. After the divorce, he again went into all serious troubles.

In June 1997, he received a one-year suspended sentence, two years of probation, was also ordered to perform 300 hours of community service and pay $2,800 in restitution to his girlfriend who suffered the beating. In the spring of 1998, Sheen was hospitalized after a cocaine overdose.

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The police began to regularly detain him in hot spots with prostitutes and drugs. Lawyers scrambled to save what was left of his reputation. According to the verdict of the courts, Shin was sent to rehabilitation centers over and over again, but after them the actor started all over again.

All this, frankly speaking, should, if not kill Shin himself, then certainly bury his career.

But, despite everything, Shin managed to stay afloat. In 1999, critics noted his role in the cult film “Being John Malkovich,” and in the early 2000s, he again pleased the public with his roles in the third and fourth parts of “Scary Movie.”

Personal life

Charlie Sheen has been married three times and has five children.

From September 4, 1995 to February 1996, he was married to actress Donna Peele.

From 2002 to 2006 he was married to actress Denise Richards. They have two daughters: Sam (born March 9, 2004) and Lola Rose (born June 1, 2005).

From 2008 to 2011 he was married to actress Brooke Mueller, they have twin sons: Bob and Max (born 03/14/09).

Since March 2011, he lived with porn actress Bree Olson and model-graphic designer Natalie Kenley. Olson left Sheen in April 2011, and Kenley in June of the same year.[21][22]

On November 17, 2020, during a live broadcast on NBC's Today Show, the actor confirmed his positive HIV status. According to him, he paid over $10 million to blackmailers to keep this information secret[23][24]. Several lawsuits are being prepared against the artist from women with whom he had unprotected sex without warning about his illness[25].

In November 2020, Charlie Sheen was accused of having sex with then-13-year-old actor Corey Haim during the filming of the 1986 film Lucas.[26]

Denise is beneficial

However, Charlie Sheen was even more successful on television. In 2000, he replaced Michael J Fox in the TV series Spin City. For his role as an assistant to the mayor of New York in this series, Sheen was awarded a Golden Globe.

In 2003, Charlie Sheen landed the lead role of Charlie Harper in the TV series Two and a Half Men. In this capacity, he was nominated twice - in 2004 and 2005 - for the Golden Globe, and three times - in 2006, 2007 and 2008 - for the Emmy Award. At the peak of the series' success, Sheen, according to official figures alone, received $1.25 million per episode. According to unofficial estimates, his fee reached up to $2 million.

The rise of the early 2000s coincided with Sheen’s second marriage - his chosen one was the Hollywood beauty Denise Richards . In those days, Denise was considered a “good girl”, and many wondered what could bring her together with such a “monster” as Sheen. It turned out later that Denise was also “not a miss.”

But marriage to Richards turned out to be perhaps the only bright spot in Charlie Sheen's personal life. Despite the fact that now Charlie often throws mud at his ex-wife, Denise behaves towards him with the utmost correctness.

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“Charlie wasn't a bad guy when we got married. He was sober for almost four years - a completely different person. His lifestyle was completely different. He was a former bad guy, I think,” Richards said these words about her ex-husband after he admitted that he was HIV-positive.

During four years of marriage, Denise gave birth to two daughters for Charlie, and during this time he himself was able to return to the number of those actors to whom directors are ready to offer serious roles.

Biography of Charlie Sheen

Daddy's son

Charlie is the only one in the large creative family of Hollywood star Martin Sheen who decided to take the pseudonym of his father (whose real name is Ramon Gerard Antonio Estevez).

Charlie's birth name was Carlos Irwin Estevez. He was born on September 3, 1965. Then the artist Janet Templeton, her husband Martin and two eldest sons, Emilio and Ramon, lived in New York. After the birth of their youngest child, the long-awaited daughter Renee, the family moved to Malibu.

Although all of Martin's children became artists, the best acting biographies were those of Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Charlie, however, hesitated for a long time whether he should choose a career as a baseball player (he was the star of the school team). But the boy was also very interested in his father’s profession. Martin took him with him to the filming of the television drama “The Execution of Private Slovik,” and there the eight-year-old schoolboy made his debut (although he was not listed in the credits).

Truant and "partisan"

Of course, the sons of the famous artist were different from everyone else at school - they were already making amateur films, in which they acted as cameramen, as directors, and as performers. And amateur productions under the guidance of teachers also could not do without the Esteves. By the way, in high school, Charlie was a classmate of Robert Downey Jr., another acting offspring.

After an episode in Coppola's war drama Apocalypse Now (Martin Sheen played one of the central roles in it), Charlie felt like a real actor and completely lost interest in school activities. He was a chronic truant and dropped out of school shortly before graduation.

The main role in the action movie “Red Dawn” opened the “adult” acting biography of Charlie Sheen. Then he was 18 years old, and the almost equally young Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray (they would later meet in “Dirty Dancing”), C. Thomas Howell and the star of the “Back to the Future” franchise Lea Thompson were filming nearby. The movie was trashy, but it was about the Soviet occupation of America and schoolchildren who were “partisans.”

Collaboration with Oliver Stone

Charlie's fame came not after Red Dawn, but after Oliver Stone's film Platoon, in which the heroes of Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker and others found themselves in the thick of a military meat grinder in Vietnam. A huge commercial success, four Oscars and many other awards - the “harvest” of “Platoon” was not bad, the film was praised for the reality of what was happening on the screen and its bold plot. And, of course, all of its stars received far more than five minutes of fame.

Sheen became part of Stone's team and was cast in the director's next high-profile project, the drama Wall Street. The actor portrayed a novice broker Bud, who learns from a real stock market “piranha” (Michael Douglas). Douglas received an Academy Award for his role as Gordon Gekko. When the sequel to the film was filmed (this happened only 13 years later), Charlie only got a tiny episode.

After Stone took the lead role in another cult film not from Sheen, but from Tom Cruise (it was a film about a young crippled war veteran, “Born on the Fourth of July”), the master and Charlie Sheen diverged.

In a whirlpool of eccentrics

The actor starred in several films, took part in the sports drama Major League (again with Tom Berenger), and then got a role in the parody comedy Hot Shots directed by Jim Abrahams. The film inventively satirized patriotic films (from “Superman” and “An Officer and a Gentleman” to “Top Gun”).

Since “Heads” became a hit, a sequel was released two years later, in which the authors took a fair (and very witty) look at “Rambo.” Later, the artist returned to the parody genre and starred in several parts of Scary Movie.

Gallant Aramis

After the laugh-out-loud escapades of the characters in Hot Shots, Sheen found himself in France during the reign of King Louis XIII to become Aramis from the adaptation of The Three Musketeers. Not the best interpretation of Dumas's cult novel was remembered, rather, for the musical hit that sounded in the film.

Actor alter ego

Charlie Sheen's next furious surge in popularity occurred in the early 2000s. Having received a star on the Walk of Fame (in 1994), the artist seriously became a star, began to get into unpleasant stories and starred in outright nonsense (the only exception was the series “Twisted City,” a political satire for which the actor received a Golden Globe). . The audience's love was returned to him by Charlie Harper, a character from the TV series "Two and a Half Men", who was as reckless as the performer himself.

Several seasons of the sitcom brought the actor a lot of “dividends”. For the role of practically his alter ego, Sheena was nominated twice for the Golden Globe and four times for the Emmy. His fee reached $1.8 million per episode. But the craving for drugs, brawls and a completely deteriorated character forced the management to terminate the contract with Charlie Sheen.

Close the door behind me, I'm leaving…

They gave him compensation ($25 million) and closed the door behind him. This happened in March 2011.

Another series, “Anger Management” (in which Sheen played the main role of a psychotherapist who himself is not averse to scandal), lasted only two seasons and was also closed due to the actor’s problems.

In November 2015, it became known that Charlie was infected with HIV - he himself spoke about this in a television interview. It turned out that the artist hid the problem for four years and all this time was forced to pay blackmailers for non-disclosure of the secret.

One step away from murder

But then Shin took up his old ways. The bored reporters of the scandalous chronicle were rubbing their hands, because their favorite was on fire again. Alcohol, drugs, sex, brawls, police - all this appeared next to the name of Charlie Sheen constantly.

In 2008, Sheen married again, this time to actress Brooke Mueller . But, unlike Denise Richards, Mueller, a lover of drinking, partying, and herself being treated for drug addiction, could not positively influence her husband.

Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

Fights and scandals were the norm for this couple. In December 2009, right on Christmas Eve, Charlie Sheen was arrested at the Aspen ski resort. During another quarrel, the actor almost killed his wife, who gave birth to twin sons in March 2009.

According to Mueller, he threw her on the sofa, put a knife to her throat and said that he would kill her if she ever mentioned divorce again or told anyone about their problems in their marriage.

Sheen, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 30 days of treatment at a rehabilitation center, 30 days of probation and 36 hours of courses to overcome feelings of internal aggression.

Charlie Sheen's personal life and legacy

• In 1990, Sheen proposed to actress Kelly Preston, but their engagement did not lead to marriage because he accidentally shot the actress. After this incident, she called off the wedding. After some time, he ended up in a rehabilitation center.
• In 1995, he married model Donna Peele. They met her on the set of a commercial. A year later, the couple separated. It turned out that Sheen was a client of the escort agency Heidi Fleiss.
• In 1997-1998, Sheen was sued by his model girlfriend Brittany Ashland. She stated that he smashed her face on the kitchen floor. He was hospitalized due to a drug overdose.
• In 2002, the actor married actress and model Denise Richards after meeting her on the set of the film. The couple had 2 children. In 2005, while Richards was pregnant with her second child, she filed for divorce, citing Sheen's drug abuse and violence towards her.
• In 2007, he married Brooke Mueller. They had twin sons. After 3 years of marriage, Muller filed for divorce, explaining that Sheen was trying to kill her.

"Fired for moral turpitude"

2011 was a real nightmare for Charlie Sheen. After separating from his wife, he went on another spree with prostitutes and porn actresses, generously plying them with drugs and alcohol.

Kino, which owned the rights to the series “Two and a Half Men,” has run out of patience. The contract with Shin was terminated with the wording “due to moral turpitude.” His hero Charlie Harper was killed in the story, and the new main role was given to Ashton Kutcher . True, according to unofficial information, Shin still received an impressive amount from the film company for breaking the contract.

Charlie Sheen in the TV series Two and a Half Men. Photo: https://www.youtube.com/

In 2012, a 36-hour drug-sexual orgy in the house of Charlie Sheen thundered throughout the United States, ending in the urgent hospitalization of the actor, whose health began to fail. Lawyers, however, said that there were no traces of drugs, and the reason for hospitalization was an “allergic reaction.”

But even after all this nightmare, Shin found the strength to remind him that he remains a great actor. He played the main role in the popular sitcom “Anger Management”, appeared in the fifth part of “Scary Movie”, and was awarded the role of the President of the United States in Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete Kills”.