Birth name: Carlos Irwin Estévez
Born: September 3, 1965
Birthplace: New York City
Education:
Santa Monica High School

That name does look familiar, where might i have seen Charlie Sheen?
He is probably best known for his roles in films as Chris Taylor in the Vietnam War drama Platoon and Bud Fox in Wall Street. He also played in two popular TV sitcoms: Spin City, as Charlie Sheen Crawford, and Two and a Half Men, as Charlie Sheen Harper.

Early life:
Charlie Sheen was a “blue baby” and nearly died at birth.. As a gesture of gratitude for saving Charlie Sheen‘s life, his parents decided to name their new baby after the doctor – Irwin. His father, Martin Sheen, at the time was an actor just breaking into the business with performances on Broadway. His mother, Janet Sheen, was a former New York art student who had met Charlie Sheen's father right after he had moved to Manhattan. Martin and Janet had three other children, Emilio Estevez, Renée Estevez, and Ramon Estevez, all of whom became actors.

Right from the start, young Charlie Sheen took an eager interest in his father’s acting career. In 1974, when he was only nine-years-old, he was given a tiny part in a movie that Martin was acting in, called The Execution of Private Slovik. In 1977, he accompanied his parents to the Philippines, where his father was playing one of the lead roles in a Vietnam war movie Apocalypse Now. It was a dramatic time, as Martin suffered a near-fatal heart attack on set.

While at Santa Monica High School, Charlie Sheen had two major interests: acting and baseball. Along with his friends, he produced and starred in several amateur Super-8 films. On the Vikings baseball team, he was a star shortstop and pitcher. Unfortunately, his success on the baseball field did not translate to success in the classroom, as he struggled to keep his grades up. Just a few weeks before his scheduled graduation date, Charlie Sheen was expelled due to poor attendance and bad grades.

He focused instead on pursuing his dream of becoming a successful movie star., seeking out and landing a role in the never-released horror film Grizzly II: The Predator (1984). He auditioned for lots of movies, and succeeded in landing his first major role later that year, when he was chosen to play a high school student in the film Red Dawn in 1984.

He then played a string of bit parts in TV movies until he received his first really “big break” in 1986, when controversial Hollywood director Oliver Stone picked him to act in his Oscar-winning epic, Platoon. The film was a huge success, and Charlie Sheen was critically acclaimed for his performance as a young soldier who finds himself at the centre of a major crisis during the Vietnam War. The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture

Career:
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he continued to be a leading box-office performer, and acted in a string of hit movies, including Young Guns (1988), Major League (1989), and Hot Shots (1991). But behind the scenes Charlie Sheen was also engaged in a major struggle to overcome his drug and alcohol addiction, and as the 1990s progressed, his career began to suffer.
Charlie Sheen’s struggle with drugs and alcohol carried on throughout the 1990s. He finally hit rock-bottom in May 1998, when he was hospitalised following a near-fatal drug overdose. He was admitted to Thousand Oaks hospital, and was ordered by his doctor back into a drug rehab programme at Promises Rehab Center later that same month. It took Charlie Sheen two more years to totally overcome his addictions.

As the new millennium dawned Charlie Sheen began a whole new cycle in his career when he was chosen to replace Michael J. Fox in the hit TV series Spin City. Although Charlie Sheen only played the role for two seasons, he excelled in this role, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series. In addition, his talent as a comedy actor attracted the attention of the top CBS executives, who were casting around for a top-level actor who could play the lead role in the new series, Two and A Half Men. Charlie Sheen landed the role, Charlie Sheen’s lead role in Two and A Half Men not only made him one of the highest paid comedy actors in American show business, but also gave his career a whole new lease of life.


Personal life:
Charlie Sheen’s personal fortunes have been just as eventful as his movie career, and he is no stranger to tabloid controversy, notorious for his recurrent battles with sex, drugs and alcohol.

In June 2002, Sheen wed actress Denise Richards in Los Angeles; the couple has two daughters, Sam and Lola. In January 2006, the couple announced they were divorcing. Sheen's previous marriage to model Donna Peele ended in divorce in 1995. He has a daughter, Cassandra Sheen, with high-school sweetheart Paula Profitt. In May 2008, Charlie Sheen married Brooke Mueller, a real estate investor.

Sheen was the 2004 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day breast cancer fundraiser that raised millions of dollars for research and education regarding the disease. Sheen stated that a friend of his died due to breast cancer, and he wanted to try to help find a cure for the disease.