Charlie Sheen

American actor

Charlie Sheen is an American actor known for his leading roles in film and television. He comes from a family of actors, including his father Martin Sheen, and has had a successful career spanning over 50 years, earning him numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award. However, his personal life has been marked by substance abuse issues and controversies.

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Family Info

Siblings

Renee Estevez

Ramon Estevez

Spouses

Donna Peele

Brooke Mueller

Children

Cassandra Jade Estevez

Sami Sheen

Lola Sheen

Bob Sheen

Max Sheen

About the Charlie Sheen

Carlos Irwin Estevez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Over his fifty-year career he has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 1994 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Charlie Sheen followed in the footsteps of his father Martin Sheen in becoming an actor. He starred in a slew of successful films such as Red Dawn (1984), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), and The Arrival (1996). In the 2000s, when Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of ABC’s Spin City, his portrayal of Charlie Crawford earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003-11), for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations, and as Dr. Charles “Charlie” Goodson on the FX series Anger Management (2012-14). In 2010, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.

Sheen was terminated from his Two and a Half Men contract by CBS and Warner Bros. following a public series of substance-abuse issues, marital problems and comments made towards the series’ creator, Chuck Lorre. In 2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he is HIV positive which led to an increase in HIV prevention and testing which was dubbed the “Charlie Sheen effect”.

Frequently Asked Questions

Charlie Sheen’s real name is Carlos Irwin Estévez. He is known professionally as Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen has received a Golden Globe Award and has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.

Charlie Sheen has starred in a number of successful films, including Red Dawn (1984), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), and The Arrival (1996).

Charlie Sheen starred as Charlie Crawford on ABC’s Spin City, earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–11), for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations. He later starred as Dr. Charles ,Charlie, Goodson on the FX series Anger Management (2012–14).

In 2015, Charlie Sheen publicly revealed that he is HIV positive, which led to an increase in HIV prevention and testing, dubbed the ,Charlie Sheen effect,.

In 2010, Charlie Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.

Charlie Sheen was terminated from his Two and a Half Men contract by CBS and Warner Bros. following a public series of substance-abuse issues, marital problems, and comments made towards the series’ creator, Chuck Lorre.

58 Quotes by Charlie Sheen

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    I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don’t think people are ready for the message that I’m delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

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    American actor

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    Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn’t make you want to jump into that business.

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    American actor

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    I’m different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying’s for fools, dying’s for amateurs.

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    American actor

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    I don’t have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, ‘I can’t process it’ well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

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    American actor

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    You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me. That’s life. There’s nobility in that. There’s focus. It’s genuine. It’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you’re acting.

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    American actor

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    I’ve got mad energy for days. That’s what people can’t get their minds around. They say, ‘Oh, he’s going to crash.’ They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don’t fit into their little box.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

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    What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    It’s not an act. I love it. It’s totally original. People go, ‘What’s going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don’t know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    Here’s the good news. If I realize that I’m insane, then I’m okay with it. I’m not dangerous insane.

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    American actor

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    When friends asked me, Can we help? I’d say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

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    American actor

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    I just don’t want to live like I used to. And at some point, I’m going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I’ve got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  18. 18.

    I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I’ve spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  20. 20.

    I’m bi-winning. I win here, I win there.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

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    American actor

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    Slash sat me down at his house and said, You’ve got to clean up your act. You know you’ve gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you’ve got to get into rehab.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  25. 25.

    You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  26. 26.

    We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  27. 27.

    I’m dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don’t have time for these clowns.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  28. 28.

    Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn’t?

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  29. 29.

    Duh! So, we’re asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

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    American actor

  30. 30.

    What they’re not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    But you can’t focus on things that matter if all you’ve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I still don’t have all the answers. I’m more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there’s no manual, no training course.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    What you come to discover is, it isn’t how you get there, it’s that you get there. If that’s what it took to get me where I’m at today, so be it.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    For now, I’m just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  37. 37.

    I’m here and I’m ready. They’re not. Bring it.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  38. 38.

    Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

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    American actor

  39. 39.

    You can’t process me with a normal brain.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  40. 40.

    I’m tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  42. 42.

    The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  45. 45.

    Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I tried marriage. I’m 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer – I believe in numbers. I’m not going 0 for 4. I’m not wearing a golden sombrero.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I saw 28 Days. I don’t remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It’s a big landfill.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  48. 48.

    I’ve got volumes on how not to behave. I’ve got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  49. 49.

    I just didn’t believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  50. 50.

    People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I’m gonna hang onto them and they’re gonna fuel my attack.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

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    I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn’t earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  52. 52.

    I don’t have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  53. 53.

    From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to ‘Sheen’s Korner’ … You’re either in my corner, or you’re with the trolls.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  54. 54.

    I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  55. 55.

    The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  56. 56.

    The only thing I’m addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  57. 57.

    I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor

  58. 58.

    I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

    Charlie Sheen

    American actor