• Faith: Christian - Catholic
• Career: Actor
• Birthday:  September 03, 1965

Carlos Irwin Estevez, known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an actor. He’s known as a leading man in television and film. Over his 50-year career, he’s 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. Sheen followed in the footsteps of his father, Martin Sheen, in becoming an actor. Sheen starred in several successful movies like “Red Dawn,” “Platoon,” “Wall Street,” “Eight Men Out,” “Young Guns,” “The Rookie,” “The Three Musketeers,” and “The Arrival.”

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. Then, he starred as Charlie Harper on the sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations and as Dr. Charles Goodson on the FX series “Anger Management.” In 2010, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on TV, earning $1.8 million per episode of “Two and a Half Men.”

Sheen was terminated from his “Two and a Half Men” contract by Warner Bros. and CBS after a public series of substance abuse issues, marital issues, and comments made toward the series’ creator, Chuck Lorre. In 2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he’s HIV positive, which led to an increase in HIV prevention and testing, which was dubbed the “Charlie Sheen effect.” Sheen was born in New York City in 1965, the youngest son of Martin Sheen and Janet Templeton. He has two older brothers, Emilio and Ramon, and a younger sister, Renee, who are all actors. His parents moved to Malibu, California, after Martin’s Broadway run “The Subject Was Roses.” His first movie appearance was at nine years old in his father’s 1974 film “The Execution of Private Slovik.”

Sheen attended Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California, along with Robert Downey Jr., who was a star pitcher and shortstop for the baseball team. At Santa Monica High School, he showed an early interest in acting, making amateur Super 8 films with his brother Emilio and school friends Rob Lowe and Sean Penn under his birth name. A few weeks before graduation, Sheen was expelled from school for poor grades and attendance. Deciding to become an actor, he took the stage name Charlie Sheen. His father adopted the last name Sheen in honor of the Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen, while Charlie was an English form of his given name, Chris.

What religion is Charlie Sheen?

In 2011, Sheen’s brother said his father was Catholic, and his mother was Southern Baptist. He said, “I grew up in a house where my mother was a strict Southern Baptist, and my father was a devout Catholic. I grew up as a kid hearing many arguments about religion. There was always a question about how we would be raised. We were baptized, and as often happens in these types of situations, the father loses the fight. Because of the turmoil, going to Mass was not part of our routine. When Martin returned to the Church in 1981, he came back to a different Church.”