Charlie Sheen turns 46 Today!
Carlos Irwin Estévez, the youngest son and third of four siblings born to actor Martin Sheen and artist Janet Templeton, arrived on September 3, 1965. He is known as the American film and television actor, Charlie Sheen. Talking about a working family, we are no stranger to his father Martin Sheen on the screen but in addition, all three of his siblings, two older brothers, Emilio Estévez and Ramon Estévez and baby sister, Renée Estévez, are all no strangers to the film world.
During his childhood he attended Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California, where he was a star pitcher and shortstop player for the baseball team and friends with the well known Rob Lowe and Sean Peen. Although he came from a very prestigious family, weeks before his high school graduation, Charlie Sheen was expelled from school because of his bad grades and lack of attendance. With not even a high school education he has managed to make his mark in life earning the most money every paid to an actor on a sitcom, “Two and a Half Men”, earning a whooping US$1.8 million per episode. Nothing compared to the income he earned on the sitcom Spin City, where in 2000 he replaced childhood actor, Michael J. Fox for the sitcom’s last two seasons.
He started his taste for the movie industry shooting amateur Super-8 films with his brother Emilio and school friends Rob Lowe and Sean Penn. But Sheen’s movie debut was at the age of nine in Martin Sheen’s 1974 film The Execution of Private Slovik. He became a household name for his roles in films as:
Platoon, The Apocalypse Now, The Wraith, Lucas, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Wisdom, No Man’s Land, Three For the Road, Never on Tuesday, Major League, Courage Mountain, Men at Work, Navy Seals, Young Guns, Hot Shots, Money Talks, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Cadence, The Rookie, Beyond the Law, National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, Deadfall, The Three Musketeers, Terminal Velocity, The Chase, Major League II, The Arrival, Shadow Conspiracy, Bad Day on the Block, Postmortem, A Letter from Death, Free Money, Lisa Picard is Famous, Five Aces, Silence of the Heart, Red Dawn, Pauly Shore is Dead, Due Date, Being John Malkovich, Eight Men Out, Men at Work, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and No Code of Conduct, which he wrote, produced, and starred in.
Carlos Irwin Estévez, aka, Charlie Sheen has had the distinguished pleasure of landing roles with the such actors and actresses as: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Chris Tucker, John Fusco, Christopher Cain, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estévez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey.
Accolades include:
Spin City, two ALMA Awards and won his first Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Musical Or Comedy.
In 2003, Two and a Half Me , the role garnered him an ALMA Award , three Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe award nominations.
Role Notes 1986 Amazing Stories: Book Three Casey Episode: “No Day at the Beach” 1996 Friends Ryan Episode: “The One with the Chicken Pox” 1999 Sugar Hill Matt Unsold pilot 2000–2002 Spin City Charlie Crawford Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2002)
Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series (2001)
Nominated – ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series (2002) 2003–2011 Two and a Half Men Charlie Harper ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Television Series (2008)
Nominated – Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Television Actor (2002)
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series (2005)
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2005)
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (2006)
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2006)
Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor: Comedy (2008)
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (2008)
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series (2009) 2006 Overhaulin’ Himself Episode: “LeMama’s Boy” 2008 The Big Bang Theory Himself Episode: “The Griffin Equivalency”, cameo appearance 2009 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Himself 2009 Lopez Tonight Himself 2010 Family Guy Himself Episode: “Brian Griffin’s House of Payne” 2011 Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza Himself Episode 2 (in improv game “Fairy Tale”)
So mark your calendars because you certainly do not want to miss the 2011 Comedy Central Roast Himself (Roastee) Airs on, Monday, September 19, 2011 @ 9:45PM. This is sure to be one that will make the Comedy Central Roast Hall of Fame!
We could talk about Charlie Sheen’s arrest records and his battle with drugs, alcohol, and his love for women, well, maybe not love, more of a lust thang, but not today. Today we want to just chill and enjoy his life’s anniversary with him. Today The Heat is celebrating his accomplishments, not his despair.
So Happy Birthday Charlie Sheen! And heck yes, “Two and a Half Men” will never be the same! Mennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Fell “The Heat”!
