Emilio Estevez

Engaged to journalist Sonja Magdevski. [September 2006]

Emilio Estevez has starred with his younger brother Charlie Sheen in the movies "Rated X", "Young Guns", "Badlands", "Loaded Weapon 1", "Wisdom", and "Men At Work". Additionally, Estevez guest-starred on Charlie Sheen's TV sitcom "Two and a Half Men" (2003).

A devastated Estevez considered quitting the business but has ultimately continued to work in films, including a fourth effort as director and star, Rated X (2000), which co-starred brother Charlie Sheen and was a selection at the Sundance Film Festival.

He agreed to make a brief appearance in D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996) in exchange for Disney helping him finance and distribute another effort as actor-director, The War at Home (1996).

Though smiled on by critics, The War at Home (1996) received a paltry distribution by Disney and thus went largely unseen.

He tried his hand at directing again with Men at Work (1990) before taking on one of his most famous roles as Coach Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks (1992). The enormously popular Disney film spawned sequels and an NHL hockey team of the same name, but Estevez was interested in making weighter films.

Estevez quickly rebounded with hits like Stakeout (1987) and Young Guns (1988), as well as their subsequent sequels.

He then starred in the Stephen King thriller Maximum Overdrive (1986), but the film was a failure.

The ambitious young actor added directing to his palette with Wisdom (1986) in 1986, but the film was universally panned and struck out at the box office.

Originally cast as Bender (The Criminal) in the seminal John Hughes flick The Breakfast Club (1985), Estevez took the part of Andrew (The Athlete) instead after Hughes could find no one else to fill the role. Another ensemble film, St.

Elmo's Fire (1985) came next. Then Estevez made his screen-writing debut with That Was Then. . .

This Is Now (1985), a film in which he also starred.

The scene where Kyle Reese first appears in The Terminator (1984) takes place on May 12, 1984, his 22nd birthday. The Whammy Burger scene in Falling Down (1993) was filmed on May 12, 1992, his 30th. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was released on his sixth birthday.

A part in The Outsiders (1983) followed, and Estevez made his first big splash as the punk rocker Otto in the cult classic Repo Man (1984).

Dated Mimi Rogers from 1981-82 and served as best man at her 1987 wedding to Tom Cruise.

Before graduating from Santa Monica High School in 1980, Estevez had already had a small role as a messenger boy in Apocalypse Now (1979), that was ultimately cut from the film. Though his father had opted to use the stage name "Sheen" over his more ethnic birth name "Estevez," Emilio chose to retain the family name, hoping to avoid riding his father's coattails. He also thought the double "E" set of initials was "pretty.

"He appeared in a few TV movies, the first of which was Insight: 17 Going on Nowhere (1980), before making his big-screen debut opposite Matt Dillon in 1982's Tex (1982).

Emilio appeared as an extra in Apocalypse Now (1979), but his scenes were deleted.

He lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side until his family relocated to Malibu in 1968.

Emilio Estevez was born on May 12, 1962, in New York City. He is the eldest son of actor Martin Sheen, who at the time was just breaking into the business. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art student who had met Emilio's father right after he had moved to Manhattan. Martin and Janet had three other children, Charlie Sheen, Renée Estevez, and Ramon Estevez, all of whom became actors. His father is of half Spanish and half Irish descent, and his mother, whose family is from Kentucky, has English and Scottish ancestry.