Emilio Estevez

 ( 1962 Births ) 

Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role in Badlands (1973). He later received his first credited appearance with a supporting role in the coming-of-age film Tex (1982).

Estevez gained mainstream recognition with a starring role in the drama film The Outsiders (1983), leading him to be associated with a group of young actors known as the "Brat Pack." After starring in the films Nightmares (1983) and Repo Man (1984), Estevez had his breakout with starring roles in the commercially successful Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club (1985) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985). Following his breakout, he starred in the films Maximum Overdrive (1986), Stakeout (1987), Young Guns (1988), and Young Guns II (1990). In the 1990s, Estevez played the lead role of Gordon Bombay in the film series The Mighty Ducks (1992–1996). He also starred in the films Freejack (1992), Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Another Stakeout (1993), and Judgment Night (1993).

Estevez made his directorial debut with the crime film Wisdom (1986), which he also starred in. He later directed and starred in the films Men at Work (1990) and The War at Home (1996), and following the final film in the Mighty Ducks series, Estevez primarily focused on directorial work. He directed and starred in the drama film Bobby (2006), which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and also earned Estevez a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He also directed and starred in the films The Way (2010) and The Public (2018).

Outside of directing in recent years, Estevez had a starring voice role in the English dub of the fantasy film Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) and reprised his role as Gordan Bombay in a regular capacity on the Disney+ television series (2021–2022).

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Early life Estevez was born in Staten Island, the eldest child of artist Janet Sheen and actor Martin Sheen (legally Ramón Estévez). His siblings are Ramon Estevez, Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Estévez), and Renée Estevez. Estevez's paternal grandparents were Irish Americans and Spanish immigrants. His father is a "devout Catholic" and his mother is a "strict Southern Baptist".

Estevez initially attended school in the New York City public school system but transferred to a private academy once his father's career took off. He lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side until his family moved west in 1968 when his father was cast in Catch-22. Growing up in Malibu, California, Estevez attended Santa Monica High School.

When Estevez was 11 years old, his father bought the family a portable movie camera. Estevez also appeared in Meet Mr. Bomb, a short anti-nuclear power film produced at his high school. Emilio Estevez at Hollywood.com Estevez was 14 when he accompanied his father to the Philippines, where Sheen was shooting Apocalypse Now. Estevez had a role as an extra in Apocalypse Now, but his scenes were deleted.

When they returned to Los Angeles, Estevez co-wrote and starred in a high school play about called Echoes of an Era and invited his parents to watch it. Sheen recalls being astonished by his son's performance, and "began to realize: my God, he's one of us." After graduating from Santa Monica High School in 1980, he refused to go to college and instead went into acting. Unlike his brother Charlie, Estevez and his other siblings did not adopt their father's stage name. Emilio reportedly liked the assonance of the double 'E' initials, and "didn't want to ride into the business as 'Martin Sheen's son'." Upon his brother's using his birth name Carlos Estevez for the film Machete Kills, Estevez mentioned that he was proud of his Spanish heritage and was glad that he never adopted a stage name, taking advice from his father who regretted adopting the name Martin Sheen as opposed to using his birth name, Ramón Estévez. Adios Charlie Sheen, hello Carlos Estevez, CNN.com, June 6, 2013.

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Career His first role was in a drama produced by the Paulist Fathers. Soon after, he made his stage debut with his father in Mister Roberts at Burt Reynolds' dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida (this was the only job his father ever placed him in). Later, father and son worked together in the 1982 ABC-TV film about juveniles in jail, In the Custody of Strangers, in which Estevez did the casting.

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Brat Pack years

Estevez received much attention during the 1980s for being a member of the Brat Pack and was credited as the leader of the group of young actors. One of his first major roles was as Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 cinematic adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders, where he shared the screen with an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Leif Garrett, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, and Patrick Swayze. Besides his roles in In the Custody of Strangers and The Outsiders, his credits include NBC-TV's thrillers Nightmares and Tex, the 1982 film version of another S.E. Hinton story. He bought the movie rights to a third Hinton book, That Was Then, This Is Now, and wrote the screenplay. His father predicted he would have to direct to feel the full extent of his talents, describing him as "an officer, not a soldier."

After The Outsiders, Estevez appeared as the punk-rocker turned car-repossessor Otto Maddox in the film Repo Man before co-starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. Following the success of these back-to-back Brat Pack films, he starred in That Was Then, This Is Now (which he co-wrote), the horror film Maximum Overdrive (for which he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award), and the crime drama Wisdom (with fellow Brat Packer Demi Moore). Estevez was originally cast in Platoon to be Private Chris Taylor but was forced to drop out after production was delayed for two years; the role eventually went to his younger brother Charlie Sheen. He went on to lead roles in the comedy/action film Stakeout and the westerns Young Guns and Young Guns II.

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1990–present

In the early 1990s, Estevez directed, wrote, and starred with his brother Charlie in a comedy about garbagemen, Men at Work. Estevez later stated, "People come up to me on the street and say, Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen."

In 1992, he found the career longevity that escaped other Brat Packers by starring in The Mighty Ducks as Coach Gordon Bombay, a lawyer and former Minor hockey star and minor hockey prodigy looking to forget the past, forced into coaching a pee wee hockey team as a form of community service. The film turned out to be one of Disney's most successful media franchise. It was followed by two sequels. The following year Estevez starred in three films: the dark thriller Judgment Night, the spoof comedy Loaded Weapon 1 in which his brother Charlie Sheen has a cameo, and comedy/action film Another Stakeout, which was the sequel to his earlier film Stakeout.

Estevez has acted alongside his father several times. He starred in (and directed) the 1996 The War at Home in which he played a Vietnam War veteran dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder, while Martin Sheen played his unsympathetic father.

Estevez appeared in an uncredited role in the feature film . From 1998 to 1999, he appeared in three television films: the spaghetti Western Dollar for the Dead (1998), the comedy Late Last Night (1999), and Rated X (2000), which he directed. In 2000, Estevez starred in the Moxie! Award-winning thriller Sand as part of an ensemble cast that also included Denis Leary, Jon Lovitz, Harry Dean Stanton, and Julie Delpy.

In 2003, he made his voice acting debut when he helped create the English dubbed version of The 3 Wise Men with his father. Later, Estevez starred in The L.A. Riot Spectacular and voiced the English version of the film Arthur and the Invisibles. In 2008, he guest-starred on his brother's sitcom Two and a Half Men as an old friend of Charlie Sheen's character. (His father Martin Sheen had also guest-starred in 2005.)

In an interview a month after the 2010 Oscar tribute to John Hughes he explained his absence as publicity shyness: "I've never been a guy that went out there to get publicity on myself. I never saw the value in it."

In 2017, his appearance in films was found to generate the highest return on investment (ROI) on average of all Hollywood actors.

Estevez reprised his role as Coach Gordon Bombay in the 2021 Disney+ TV series, . It was reported in November 2021 that Estevez would not return in the show's second season due to a contract dispute and creative differences.

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Directing career

Aside from acting, Estevez has also directed television shows and motion pictures. He made his directorial debut with the 1986 film Wisdom, which made Estevez the youngest actor ever to write, direct, and star in a single major motion picture. Most recently he has directed episodes of the television series Cold Case, Close to Home, The Guardian, , and Numb3rs. The films he has directed include Men at Work and The War at Home.

He directed the 2006 film Bobby, which took over six years to write. Producing the film nearly bankrupted him as the domestic box office gross was not able to cover production costs. The movie gained him fans outside the US, mainly in Europe. He won a Hollywood Film Award and received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2010, Estevez filmed a new project, The Way, in Spain where he directed his father in a story about a man who decides to make the Camino de Santiago after the death of his son in the French Pyrénées. It was released in the United States on October 7, 2011.

In 2018, Estevez released The Public, a film featuring Estevez himself as writer, director, and cast member. The film, also starring Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, and Jena Malone, premiered worldwide at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Music videos

Estevez appeared in John Parr's "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" music video, from the soundtrack of his film with the same name, where he played Kirby Keger. The music video featured all seven of the main cast members of the film, looking sadly through the foggy windows of a run-down and fire-damaged version of the St. Elmo's Bar set.

Estevez is a close friend of Jon Bon Jovi.

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He appeared in Bon Jovi's music video "Blaze of Glory" as Billy the Kid. In turn, Bon Jovi made a cameo appearance in Young Guns II. "Blaze of Glory" was in the Young Guns II soundtrack and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2000, Estevez made an appearance in another Bon Jovi video, "Say It Isn't So", along with Matt LeBlanc, Claudia Schiffer, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Personal life

In the early 1980s, Estevez dated actress Mimi Rogers. He was involved off and on with Carey Salley, a Wilhelmina model. They have a son and a daughter. Their relationship overlapped with Estevez's high-profile engagement to Demi Moore, with whom he was intermittently involved from 1984 to 1986.

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In 1986, Salley filed a $2 million paternity suit against Estevez.Trott, William C. (October 16, 1986). "Question of Paternity". United Press International. Estevez acknowledged paternity of Salley's children on June 1, 1987.

On April 29, 1992, Estevez married singer-choreographer Paula Abdul. They filed for divorce in May 1994. Abdul later stated that the reason for the divorce was that she wanted children, while Estevez--who already had two children--did not.

In 2011, Estevez stated that his religion was a "work in progress". In 2023, he said, "Film is an illusion, fame is ephemeral, faith and family are what will endure".

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Filmography

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Film

+ Film ! Year ! Film ! Role ! class = "unsortable"	Notes
1973	Badlands	Boy Under Lamppost	Uncredited role
1979	Apocalypse Now	Messenger Boy	Scenes deleted
1982	Tex	Johnny Collins
1983	The Outsiders	Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews
	Nightmares	J.J. Cooney	Segment: The Bishop of Battle
1984	Repo Man	Otto Maddox
1985	The Breakfast Club	Andrew Clark
	St. Elmo's Fire	Kirby "Kirbo" Keger
	That Was Then... This Is Now	Mark Jennings	Also writer
1986	Maximum Overdrive	Bill Robinson
	Wisdom	John Wisdom	Also director and writer
1987	Stakeout	Det. Bill Reimers
1988	Young Guns	Billy the Kid
1989	Never on Tuesday	Tow Truck Driver	Cameo role
1990	Young Guns II	Billy the Kid
	Men at Work	James St. James	Also director and writer
1992	Freejack	Alex Furlong
	The Mighty Ducks	Gordon Bombay
1993	Loaded Weapon 1	Sgt. Jack Colt
	Another Stakeout	Det. Bill Reimers
	Judgment Night	Francis Howard "Frank" Wyatt
1994		Gordon Bombay
1995			Executive producer
1996		Jack Harmon	Uncredited role
	The War at Home	Jeremy Collier	Also director and producer
		Gordon Bombay
2000	Sand	Trip
2003	The 3 Wise Men	Belial	Uncredited Voice acting; English dub
2005	The L.A. Riot Spectacular	Laurence Powell
	Culture Clash in AmeriCCa		Director; Documentary
2006	Arthur and the Minimoys	Ferryman	Voice role; English dub
	Bobby	Tim Fallon	Also director and writer
2010	The Way	Daniel Avery	Also director, producer, and writer
2012	Dear Dracula	Myro	Voice role
	A Monster Christmas	Mr. Winterbottom
2018	The Public	Stuart Goodson	Also director and writer
2024	Brats	Himself	Documentary

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Television

+ Television ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class = "unsortable"	Notes
1980-1982	Insight	Young Man / Pat / Stan / Steve Novak	4 episodes
1982	Making the Grade	Dwayne	Episode: "Guess Who's Coming to Class?"
	In the Custody of Strangers	Danny Caldwell	ABC television film
1987	Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville	Himself / Vietnam soldier	Television film/television special documentary
1989	Nightbreaker	Dr. Alexander Brown (Past)	TNT television film
1994	Saturday Night Live	Host
	The Legend of Billy the Kid	Himself	Interview from the set of Young Guns II
1998	Dollar for the Dead	Cowboy	TNT television film
1999	Late Last Night	Dan	Television film
2000	Rated X	James Lowell "Jim" Mitchell	Showtime television film; Also director
2001	Jon Bon Jovi	Himself / Interviewee	Television special
2002	After Dark: South Beach	Narrator
2003	The West Wing	Josiah Bartlet	; Cameo role
2003–2004	The Guardian		Director; 3 episodes
2004–2005	Cold Case		Director; 2 episodes
2005
	Close to Home		Director;
	Criminal Minds		Director
2008	Numb3rs		Director; 2 episodes
	Two and a Half Men	Andrew "Andy" Donald Patterson
2021–2022		Gordon Bombay	Main role (season 1)

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Awards and nominations

1986	Maximum Overdrive	Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Actor
1989	Young Guns	Western Heritage Awards	Bronze Wrangler - Theatrical Motion Picture
1998	The War at Home	ALMA Awards	Outstanding Latino Director of a Feature Film	rowspan=2
			Outstanding Individual Performance in a Crossover Role in a Feature Film
2006	Bobby	Venice Film Festival	Golden Lion - Best Film
			Biografilm Award
2006		Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Cast
2006		Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2006		ALMA Awards	Outstanding Director – Motion Picture	rowspan=3
			Outstanding Motion Picture
			Outstanding Screenplay – Motion Picture
2012	Emilio Estevez	Shorty Awards	Best Actor	rowspan=2
			Best Director

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See also

• List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards

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External links

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