Charlie Sheen
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
- Birthday: September 3, 1965
Charlie Sheen’s roles in Oliver Stone’s gritty Vietnam War drama “Platoon” (1986) and Stone’s bleak portrait of Reagan-era greed, “Wall Street” (1987), gave the actor his big break in Hollywood, but those films proved to be anomalies in a career characterized by laughs — both on- and off-screen. During the nineties, Sheen found a niche in light comedies that banked on his good looks and flair for deadpan comedy, though even blockbuster spoofs like “Hot Shots” (1991) were overshadowed by Sheen’s real-life penchant for prost…more
