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"I am on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen! It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."

Carlos Irwin Estevez (born September 3, 1965 in New York City, New York), better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is the son of acclaimed actor Martin Sheen, brother of rather-less-acclaimed actor Emilio Estevez, and nephew of even-less-well-acclaimed actor Joe Estevez. If you ask him, Adonis and tigers somehow figure into his ancestry as well. Oh, and his mother's Jewish, apparently.note 

His character roles in films have included Chris Taylor in the 1986 Vietnam War drama Platoon, Jake Kesey in the 1986 film The Wraith, and Bud Fox in the 1987 film Wall Street. His career has also included more comedic films, such as Major League, Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux, Being John Malkovich, and Scary Movie 3 and 4. He also had a small role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. On television, Sheen is known for his roles as The Danza on two sitcoms: as Charlie Crawford on Spin City and as Charlie Harper on Two and a Half Men. As of 2010, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning $1.8 million per episode of Two And A Half Men.

In 2011, he dove far off the deep end into self-destructive madness, which led to him being fired from Two and a Half Men.note  A Twitter account he created garnered 80,000 followers before he ever wrote a thing, and raced right past the million mark in one day to 1.4 million followers, beating even Oprah.

Alternatively, he may have been shrewdly transforming his strange self-destructive behavior into revenue: his "Torpedo of Truth" tour has garnished a fair amount of money, much of which Sheen has donated to charity.

Between 2012 and 2014, he starred in the FX sitcom Anger Management (an adaptation of the movie) as a womanizing baggage-toting character named Charlie.

Sadly, in November 2015, Charlie came forward and confirmed that he was HIV-positive, having been diagnosed in 2011. Even worse, he stated the infection likely occurred during one of the very rare times (two by his own count) that he had unprotected sex.


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