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50 facts about actor Charlie Sheen.
1. Carlos Estévez is known as Charlie Sheen.
2. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen.
3. His mother is artist Janet Templeton.
4. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Galicia and Ireland, respectively.
5. His father is a "devout Catholic."
6. His mother is a "strict Southern Baptist".
7. Sheen has two older brothers, Emilio and Ramon, and a younger sister, Renée.
8. All of his siblings are actors.
9. His parents moved to Malibu, California, after Martin's Broadway turn in The Subject Was Roses.
10. Sheen's first movie appearance was at age nine in his father's 1974 film The Execution of Private Slovik.
11. Sheen attended Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California, where he was a star pitcher and shortstop for the baseball team.
12. 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.
13. A few weeks before graduation, Sheen was expelled from school for poor grades and attendance.
14. Deciding to become an actor, he took the stage name Charlie Sheen.
15. 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.
16. Sheen rose to fame after a series of successful films such as Platoon, Wall Street, Young Guns, Eight Men Out, Major League, Hot Shots!, and The Three Musketeers.
17. In the 2000s, Sheen became best known for his television roles.
18. He replaced Michael J. Fox in Spin City and his performance earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy.
19. He starred in Two and a Half Men.
20. Two and a Half Men earned him several Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations.
21. He starred in the FX comedy series Anger Management, which concluded its 100-episode run in 2014.
22. In 2010, Sheen was the highest paid actor on television and earned US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.
23. Sheen's personal life has made headlines, including reports of alcohol and drug abuse and marital problems, as well as allegations of domestic violence.
24. He was fired from Two and a Half Men by CBS and Warner Bros. in March 2011.
25. Sheen's film career began in 1984 with a role in the Cold War teen drama Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey.
26. Sheen and Grey reunited in a small scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
27. He also appeared in an episode of the anthology series Amazing Stories.
28. Sheen had his first major role in the Vietnam War drama Platoon.
29. 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, but later cast Tom Cruise instead. Sheen was never notified by Stone, and only found out when he heard the news from his brother Emilio.
30. Sheen did not take a lead role in Stone's subsequent films, although he did have a cameo role in Money Never Sleeps.
31. In 1987, Sheen was cast to portray Ron in the unreleased Grizzly II: The Predator, the sequel to the 1976 low budget horror movie Grizzly.
32. In 1988, he starred in the baseball film Eight Men Out as outfielder Happy Felsch.
33. Also in 1988, he appeared opposite his brother Emilio in Young Guns and again in 1990 in Men at Work.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. In 1994, Sheen was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
37. In 1997, Sheen wrote his first movie, Discovery Mars, a direct-to-video documentary revolving around the question, "Is There Life on Mars?".
38. Sheen wrote, produced and starred in the action movie No Code of Conduct.
39. Sheen appeared in several comedy roles, including the Major League films, Money Talks, and the spoof Hot Shots! films.
40. In 2000, Sheen debuted on the small screen when he replaced Michael J. Fox for the last two seasons of the sitcom Spin City (which also had fellow Ferris Bueller actor Alan Ruck as Stuart Bondek).
41. For his work on Spin City, Sheen was nominated for two ALMA Awards and won his first Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy. The series ended in 2002.
42. In 2003, Sheen was cast as Charlie Harper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, which followed the popular Monday night time slot of Everybody Loves Raymond.
43. Sheen's role on Two and a Half Men was loosely based on Sheen's bad boy image. The role garnered him an ALMA Award and he gained three Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe award nominations. During his eighth and final season on the show, Sheen earned $1.8 million per episode.
44. In 2006, Sheen launched a clothing line for children, called Sheen Kidz.
45. In 2011, Sheen set a new Guinness World Record for Twitter as the "Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Followers" as well as the Guinness record for "Highest Paid TV Actor Per Episode - Current" at $1.25 million while he was a part of the cast of Two and a Half Men sitcom.
46. On March 3, 2011, Charlie Sheen signed with Ad.ly marketing agency specializing in Twitter and Facebook promotions.
47. Sheen was announced as the face of and partner in "NicoSheen", a line of disposable E-cigarettes and related products.
48. On August 13, 2011, Sheen hosted at the 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos, an event created by the Insane Clown Posse. He received a mixed reaction from the audience, but has expressed appreciation for the culture by describing himself as a Juggalo and wearing a baseball cap featuring the Psychopathic Records logo in public and during production meetings for Anger Management.
49. Sheen has been married three times.
50. He has five children and one grandchild.
