Emilio Estevez (/ɛˈmɪlioʊɛˈstəvɛs/; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actorMartin Sheen and the older brother ofCharlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role inBadlands (1973). He later received his first credited appearance with a supporting role in the coming-of-age filmTex (1982).
Estevez made his directorial debut with the crime filmWisdom (1986), which he also starred in. He later directed and starred in the filmsMen at Work (1990) andThe War at Home (1996), and following the final film in theMighty Ducks series, Estevez primarily focused on directorial work. He directed and starred in the drama filmBobby (2006), which was nominated for theGolden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and also earned Estevez aScreen Actors Guild Award nomination. He also directed and starred in the filmsThe Way (2010) andThe Public (2018).
Outside of directing in recent years, Estevez had a starring voice role in the English dub of the fantasy filmArthur and the Invisibles (2006) and reprised his role as Gordon Bombay in a regular capacity on theDisney+ television seriesThe Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (2021–2022).
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'sUpper West Side until his family moved west in 1968 when his father was cast inCatch-22. Growing up inMalibu, California, Estevez attendedSanta Monica High School.
When Estevez was 11 years old, his father bought the family a portable movie camera.[2] Estevez also appeared inMeet Mr. Bomb, a short anti-nuclear power film produced at his high school.[3] Estevez was 14 when he accompanied his father to the Philippines, where Sheen was shootingApocalypse Now.[2] Estevez had a role as an extra inApocalypse Now, but his scenes were deleted.[4]
When they returned to Los Angeles, Estevez co-wrote and starred in a high school play aboutVietnam veterans calledEchoes 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."[5] After graduating from Santa Monica High School in 1980, he refused to go to college and instead went into acting.[2] Unlike his brother Charlie, Estevez and his other siblings did not adopt their father's stage name. Emilio reportedly liked thealliteration of the double 'E' initials,[6] and "didn't want to ride into the business as 'Martin Sheen's son'."[2] Upon his brother's using his birth name Carlos Estevez for the filmMachete 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.[7]
Estevez received much attention during the 1980s for being a member of theBrat Pack and was credited as the leader of the group of young actors.[8] One of his first major roles was as Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews inFrancis Ford Coppola's 1983 cinematic adaptation ofS. E. Hinton'snovel,The Outsiders, where he shared the screen with an ensemble cast that includedTom Cruise,Matt Dillon,Leif Garrett,C. Thomas Howell,Diane Lane,Rob Lowe,Ralph Macchio, andPatrick Swayze.[9] Besides his roles inIn the Custody of Strangers andThe Outsiders, his credits includeNBC-TV's thrillersNightmares andTex, the 1982 film version of anotherS.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."[2]
AfterThe Outsiders, Estevez appeared as the punk-rocker turned car-repossessor Otto Maddox in the filmRepo Man before co-starring inThe Breakfast Club andSt. Elmo's Fire. Following the success of these back-to-back Brat Pack films, he starred inThat Was Then, This Is Now (which he co-wrote), the horror filmMaximum Overdrive (for which he was nominated for aGolden Raspberry Award), and the crime dramaWisdom (with fellow Brat PackerDemi Moore). Estevez was originally cast inPlatoon 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.[10] He went on to lead roles in the comedy/action filmStakeout and the westernsYoung Guns[11] andYoung Guns II.
In the early 1990s, Estevez directed, wrote, and starred with his brother Charlie in a comedy aboutgarbagemen,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."[4]
In 1992, he found the career longevity that escaped other Brat Packers by starring inThe Mighty Ducks as Coach Gordon Bombay,[10] a lawyer and formerpee wee 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 ofDisney's most successfulfranchises. It was followed by two sequels.[10] The following year Estevez starred in three films: the dark thrillerJudgment Night, the spoof comedyLoaded Weapon 1 in which his brotherCharlie Sheen has a cameo, and comedy/action filmAnother Stakeout, which was the sequel to his earlier filmStakeout.
Estevez has acted alongside his father several times. He starred in (and directed) the 1996The War at Home in which he played a Vietnam War veteran dealing withposttraumatic stress disorder, while Martin Sheen played his unsympathetic father.[5]
In 2003, he made his voice acting debut when he helped create the English dubbed version ofThe 3 Wise Men with his father. Later, Estevez starred inThe L.A. Riot Spectacular and voiced the English version of the filmArthur and the Invisibles. In 2008, he guest-starred on his brother's sitcomTwo and a Half Men as an old friend of Charlie Sheen's character. (His father Martin Sheen had also guest-starred in 2005.)[12]
In an interview a month after the2010 Oscar tribute toJohn 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."[13]
In 2017, his appearance in films was found to generate the highest return on investment (ROI) on average of all Hollywood actors.[14]
Estevez reprised his role as Coach Gordon Bombay in the 2021Disney+ TV series,The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.[15] 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.[16]
Aside from acting, Estevez has also directed television shows and motion pictures. He made his directorial debut with the 1986 filmWisdom, 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 seriesCold Case,Close to Home,The Guardian,CSI: NY, andNumb3rs. The films he has directed includeMen at Work andThe War at Home.[5]
He directed the 2006 filmBobby, which took over six years to write. Producing the film nearly bankrupted him as the domestic box office gross was not able to coverproduction costs.[10] The movie gained him fans outside the US, mainly in Europe.[17] He won a Hollywood Film Award and received a seven-minute standing ovation at theVenice Film Festival.[13]
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 theCamino de Santiago after the death of his son in the French Pyrénées. It was released in the United States on October 7, 2011.[6][18]
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.
In the early 1980s, Estevez dated actressMimi Rogers.[22] He was involved off and on with Carey Salley, aWilhelmina model.[2] They have a son and a daughter. Their relationship overlapped with Estevez's high-profile engagement toDemi Moore, with whom he was intermittently involved from 1984 to 1986.[23][24] In 1986, Salley filed a $2 millionpaternity suit against Estevez.[25] Estevez acknowledged paternity of Salley's children on June 1, 1987.[26]
On April 29, 1992, Estevez married singer-choreographerPaula Abdul. They filed fordivorce 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.[27]
In 2011, Estevez stated that his religion was a "work in progress".[1] In 2023, he said, "Film is an illusion, fame is ephemeral,faith andfamily are what will endure".[28]
^Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.
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