Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, in New York. His father, veteran actor Martin Sheen, encouraged Charlie and his siblings to pursue acting careers.
Charlie’s acting debut at age 9 was as an extra in The Execution of Private Slovik, which his father starred. As a teen, Charlie tried producing and directing and created low-budget film shorts with his friends.
However, during high school, Charlie had a hard time following up and was expelled in his senior year. He immediately began to pursue an acting career, starting with small roles before landing his first important role in Oliver Stone’s film Platoon.
After Platoon, he got more roles in important films, such as Wall Street, Navy SEALS and The Rookie.
In the late ‘90s, Charlie formed a production company with Bret Michaels, and the two collaborated on the TV movie No Code of Conduct. The rest of the ‘90s and the 2000s Charlie experimented with diverse genres such as science fiction and documentaries.
Charlie then had the chance to join the series Spin City after Michael J. Fox left, and producers chose him to replace him. After the series ended, Charlie got in another CBS sitcom, Two and a Half.
As he started getting more famous, Charlie found himself at the center of many scandals.
In his memoir and Netflix documentary, Charlie talks about his life as one of Hollywood’s most notorious figures. The Book of Sheen and aka Charlie Sheen documents his scandals, as well as his time as one of the industry’s highest-paid actors.
The documentary shows Charlie’s troubled life and tells many stories about him; one of them was the time he piloted a plane drunk with his first wife, Donna Peele. During the flight, Charlie was allowed to sit in the pilot’s seat, and as the autopilot switch was briefly turned off by the captain, he was allowed to fly a plane full of people, which as he described made him feel “untouchable” in that moment.
Charlie’s Addiction problems affected his performance in films, and in 2011 he was diagnosed with HIV, “once a day for 20 seconds because I have to, that’s the time it takes to eat the poison that tames the evil stowaway,” he once said.
The actor spent a lot of time in rehab between the early ‘90s and 2010s. However, it wasn’t until a 2017 car ride with his daughter Sami that he was finally inspired to change his life.
“There was only one thing that felt worse than betraying myself, and that was failing my children,” he said.
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