Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Estévez in 1965) followed his father Martin Sheen into acting, rising to fame in the 1980s with iconic roles in films like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street (1987). He achieved massive television success starring in Spin City (winning a Golden Globe) and later as the lead in the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–2011), where he became the highest-paid actor on TV in 2010, earning $1.8 million per episode. His career was derailed in March 2011 when he was fired from Two and a Half Men following public substance-abuse issues and conflicts with creator Chuck Lorre. In 2015, Sheen publicly revealed he was HIV positive, which sparked a surge in HIV prevention and testing known as the "Charlie Sheen effect." He later starred in Anger Management and, in 2025, became the subject of the Netflix documentary Aka Charlie Sheen and published the best-selling memoir The Book of Sheen.