During his career, Charlie Sheen left his mark on the audience as a famous movie star in the 80s and then on the small screen in the 2000s with many notable roles.
Below are 6 lifetime roles, considered “of all time” by the audience as well as experts:
Chris Taylor (Platoon)
Platoon debuted on December 19, 1986 and quickly became a phenomenon, considered a true document about war. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young American soldier deployed to Vietnam in 1967, serving in Bravo 6 platoon of the US 25th Infantry Division.
Is an American film about the Vietnam War directed by Oliver Stone, with the participation of Charlie Sheen, the film is considered one of the top films about the world’s war and was awarded the Oscar for Best Film. and Best Director in 1987, selected on the list of 100 best films of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.
Ricky ‘Wild Thing’ Vaughn (Major League)
In Major League, Charlie Sheen plays Ricky Vaughn, who is nicknamed Wild Thing. This baseball player is famous for his throwing speed of more than 100 miles per hour but has an eye defect.
In the movie, the new owner of the Cleveland Indians football team has evil intentions to get the team to lose to help her achieve her goal of selling the team. But when her plan was not achieved, the team had consecutive wins.
With the character Ricky Vaughn, Charlie Sheen marked one of his best roles in an impressive film career, and is considered “unmentionable”.
Charlie Goodson (Anger Management)
Charlie Sheen set a record as the highest paid TV actor in history when he completed episode 100 of the series Anger Management. It is known that an agreement was previously made that when the series reached 100 episodes, this star would be paid an amount of 200 million USD for the role of Charlie Goodson, instead of 2 million USD/episode.
More worth mentioning, he also broke his own previous record when he received a salary of 1.8 million USD per episode for his final season participating in Two and A Half Men. However, Sheen was later fired by producer Chuck Lorre for demanding even higher salaries. No matter what, in the film and television industry, Charlie Sheen is also a “winner”.
Charlie Crawford (Spin City)
Over the decades, Charlie Sheen has built a reputation in the entertainment industry as a talented star. In Spin City, Sheen joined the fifth season of the romantic comedy series, replacing Michael J. Fox. With the role of Charlie Crawford, Charlie brought home the only Golden Globe award in his career, is considered an icon, making fans extremely proud.
Bud Fox (Wall Street)
Tong Wall Street, Charlie Sheen plays a young Wall Street broker in the early 1980s named Bud Fox with a burning dream of climbing to the top position. Because of his great ambition and desire to make a lot of money, he accepted help from an extremely successful but notoriously cruel and greedy broker, Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas).
Under the hands of Gordon Gekko and his motto “greed is always good”, Fox has carried out many shady business deals to own a lot of money, beautiful girls and disagree with his own father. It wasn’t until he was arrested that Fox realized there were more important things than money.
Charlie Sheen’s success during the 90s of the last century was associated with the name of Wall Street, a classic film about Wall Street that is difficult for any later film to surpass.
Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men)
Charlie Sheen was once one of the most famous names on American television for his role as Charlie Harper, a playboy with a debauched lifestyle in the hugely popular 12-season CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men .
The image of Charlie Harper is considered almost identical to Charlie Sheen in real life as this character prefers a single lifestyle, flirts with women and indulges in alcohol.
He once received up to 2 million USD per episode, before being kicked out of the show for insulting producer Chuck Lorre. After 7 consecutive seasons, the character Charlie Harper was eliminated with a random death according to the script, and Charlie Sheen was replaced by another famous actor, actor Ashton Kutcher.
