American actor of Platoon, Wall Street and Two and a Half Men — photos, style and news
Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), best known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Major League (1989), Hot Shots! (1991) and Scary Movie 3 (2003). On television, Sheen is known for his roles on Spin City, Two and a Half Men, and Anger Management. In 2010, Sheen was the highest paid actor on television and earned US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men. His best-known sayings from that period — “I got tiger blood, man” — are quoted in full on this page.
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Sheen's record divides cleanly into a film career and a television career, each with a headline fact. The films run from Platoon and Wall Street in the mid-1980s through Major League, the Hot Shots! comedies and the Scary Movie films — the work of a leading man raised inside the industry. The television years then out-earned them all: Spin City led to Two and a Half Men, and by 2010 Sheen was the highest paid actor on television at US$1.8 million per episode. His firing by CBS and Warner Bros. in March 2011, the nationwide tour that followed, and the Comedy Central roast watched by 6.4 million people that September turned the end of that run into a public spectacle in its own right.
This page gathers Charlie Sheen photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube, and it preserves the two best-known Sheen quotations in full at the top of the page, tiger blood and all. He is filed in the C letter of the Male Fashion Celebrities A–G range alongside Colin Farrell. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear — and, in Sheen's case in 2011, watched for a great deal more besides.
Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, and is best known by his stage name Charlie Sheen. His films include Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Major League (1989), Hot Shots! (1991) and the Scary Movie films.
In 2010, Sheen was the highest paid actor on television and earned US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men. He was fired from the show by CBS and Warner Bros. in March 2011, and subsequently went on a nationwide tour.
On September 19, 2011, Sheen was roasted on Comedy Central. The roast was watched by 6.4 million people, capping a year that began with his departure from Two and a Half Men and continued with a nationwide tour.