He is known as a leading man in film and television. In he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Charlie Sheen followed in the footsteps of his father Martin Sheen in becoming an actor.
In the s, when Sheen replaced Michael J. Sheen's first movie appearance was at age nine in his father's film The Execution of Private Slovik. A few weeks before his scheduled graduation from Santa Monica High School, Sheen was expelled from school for poor grades and attendance. He then chose to become an actor, and adopted the stage name Charlie Sheen.
His father had adopted the surname Sheen in honor of the Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen , and Charlie was an English form of his given name Carlos. Sheen's film career began in , when he was cast to portray Ron in Grizzly II: The Predator , the sequel to the low-budget horror movie Grizzly , which remained unreleased until He also appeared in an episode of the anthology series Amazing Stories.
Sheen had his first major role in the Vietnam War drama Platoon In , he starred with his father in Wall Street in which he played the role of Bud Fox, a young and ambitious stockbroker. Sheen was never notified by Stone, and he only found out when he heard the news from his brother Emilio.
Sheen did not take a lead role in Stone's subsequent films, [ 15 ] although he did have a cameo role in Money Never Sleeps. Also in , he appeared opposite his brother Emilio in Young Guns and again in in Men at Work.
