Emilio Estevez

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| image = Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen (cropped to Emilio).jpg

| caption = Estevez in 2011

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|5|12}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

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| years_active = 1973–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Paula Abdul|1992|1994|end=div}}

| children = 2

| father = Martin Sheen

| mother = Janet Templeton

| relatives = {{ubl|

Ramon Estevez (brother)|

Charlie Sheen (brother)|

Renée Estevez (sister)|

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Emilio Estevez ({{IPAc-en|ɛ|ˈ|m|ɪ|l|i|oʊ|_|ɛ|ˈ|s|t|ɛ|v|ə|s}}; 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 The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (2021–2022).

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 and Spanish immigrants. His father is a "devout Catholic" and his mother is a "strict Southern Baptist".{{cite news| url= http://www.ncregister.com/blog/tim-drake/emilio-estevez-and-martin-sheen-talk-of-faith | title= Emilio Estévez and Martin Sheen Talk of Faith | first= Tim| last= Drake | date= September 14, 2011 | publisher= National Catholic Register | website= NCRegister.com |access-date= June 5, 2015}}

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.[http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Emilio_Estevez/193264 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.{{IMDb name|389|section=bio}}

When they returned to Los Angeles, Estevez co-wrote and starred in a high school play about Vietnam veterans 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 alliteration of the double 'E' initials,{{cite web| url=http://www.latina.com/entertainment/buzz/true-identity-charlie-sheen-tracing-roots-estevez-family|title=The True Identity of Charlie Sheen: Tracing The Roots of The Estevez Family|last=Ramirez|first=Erika|date=February 28, 2011|publisher=Latina magazine|access-date=February 28, 2011}} and "didn't want to ride into the business as 'Martin Sheen's son'."{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20084379,00.html|title=Emilio Estevez acts up, and no one's prouder than his father, Martin Sheen|last=Buchalter|first=Gail|date=February 28, 1983|work=People|publisher=Time Inc.|access-date=March 26, 2011|archive-date=March 31, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110331025613/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20084379,00.html|url-status=dead}} 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.[http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/showbiz/charlie-sheen-now-carlos-estevez Adios Charlie Sheen, hello Carlos Estevez], CNN.com, June 6, 2013.

Career

His first role was in a drama produced by the Catholic Paulist order. 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.

=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.{{cite journal |last=Blum |first=David |author-link=David Blum |date=June 10, 1985|title=Hollywood's Brat Pack |journal=New York |pages=40–47}} Estevez and Rob Lowe established the Brat Pack when cast as supporting "Greasers" in an early Brat Pack movie, The Outsiders based on the novel. Lowe was cast as C. Thomas Howell's older brother Sodapop and Estévez as Two-Bit Mathews. During production, he approached his character as a laid-back guy and thought up Two-Bit's interest in Mickey Mouse, shown by his uniform of Mickey Mouse T-shirts and watching of cartoons.

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/57093/what-about-emilio/|title=What About Emilio?|last=Kiebus|first=Matt|date=March 1, 2011|publisher=deathandtaxesmag|access-date=March 6, 2011}} He went on to lead roles in the comedy/action film Stakeout and the westerns Young Guns{{Cite web|url=https://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/2014_00565|title=Interviews with the Cast of Young Guns (1988)|website=Texas Archive of the Moving Image|access-date=October 30, 2019}} and Young Guns II.

=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 pee 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 of Disney's most successful franchises. 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.

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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.{{cite web| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8385806/The-Way-interview-with-Martin-Sheen-and-Emilio-Estevez.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8385806/The-Way-interview-with-Martin-Sheen-and-Emilio-Estevez.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Way: interview with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez| last=McLean|first=Craig|date=March 21, 2011|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=March 26, 2011}}{{cbignore}}

Estevez appeared in an uncredited role in the feature film Mission: Impossible. 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.){{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Estevez-Sheen-Men-35396.aspx|title=Two Brothers to Team on Two and a Half Men|last=Mitovich|first=Matt|date=November 6, 2008|publisher=TV Guide|access-date=March 28, 2011}}

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."{{cite web| url= http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/emilio-estevez-and-the-way|title=Emilio Estevez and The Way|last=Dwyer|first=Fr Dave|date=April 7, 2010|publisher=Busted Halo| access-date= March 17, 2011}}

In 2017, his appearance in films was found to generate the highest return on investment (ROI) on average of all Hollywood actors.{{cite web|url=https://casino.partycasino.com/en/blog/what-makes-a-hollywood-hit/#/actors|title=What Makes A Hollywood Hit |publisher=Party Casino|access-date=October 19, 2017}}

Estevez reprised his role as Coach Gordon Bombay in the 2021 Disney+ TV series, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/02/the-mighty-ducks-emilio-estevez-reprise-role-coach-gordon-bombay-disney-plus-sequel-series-reboot-1202859392/|title='The Mighty Ducks': Emilio Estevez To Reprise Role As Coach Gordon Bombay In Disney+ Sequel Series|website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|date=February 13, 2020|access-date=October 26, 2020|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929223423/https://deadline.com/2020/02/the-mighty-ducks-emilio-estevez-reprise-role-coach-gordon-bombay-disney-plus-sequel-series-reboot-1202859392/|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/emilio-estevez-long-haul-covid-mighty-ducks-exit-statement-disney-plus-1234869916/ |title=Emilio Estevez Speaks Out About His 'Mighty Ducks: Game Changers' Exit, Reveals Long-Haul Covid |date=November 8, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120123958/https://deadline.com/2021/11/emilio-estevez-long-haul-covid-mighty-ducks-exit-statement-disney-plus-1234869916/ |archive-date=November 20, 2021 |access-date=April 19, 2025 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

=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, CSI: NY, 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.moviehole.net/201143550-congrats-to-emilio-estevez-the-way-lands-distribution|title=Congrats to Emilio Estevez; The Way lands distribution|date=July 29, 2011|last=Clint|first=Caffeinated|publisher=Moviehole|access-date=August 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108013219/http://moviehole.net/201143550-congrats-to-emilio-estevez-the-way-lands-distribution|archive-date=November 8, 2014|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17731|title=A father and son project: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez discuss The Way|last=Siedlecka|first=Jo|date=February 24, 2011|publisher=Independent Catholic News|access-date=March 17, 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.{{cite web|url= http://www.ikonlondonmagazine.com/the-public-film-premiere-at-the-tiff-2018/|title=Alec Baldwin 'The Public' Film Premiere at Toronto Film Festival 2018|website= Ikon London Magazine|first1=Tamara|last1=Orlova-Alvarez |first2=Joe|last2=Alvarez|date=September 10, 2018|access-date=September 29, 2018}}

{{cite web|url= http://www.ikonlondonmagazine.com/emilio-estevez-on-homelessness-at-the-toronto-premiere-of-the-public/|title= Emilio Estevez on Homelessness at the Toronto Premiere of The Public|website= Ikon London Magazine|first1=Tamara|last1=Orlova-Alvarez |first2=Joe|last2=Alvarez|date=September 27, 2018|access-date=September 29, 2018}}

=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.{{cite book|title=Jon Bon Jovi|author-link=Lara Jackson|first=Laura |last=Jackson|pages=109|isbn=978-0-8065-2600-3|publisher=Citadel|year=2005}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}}

Personal life

In the early 1980s, Estevez dated actress Mimi Rogers.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/58414%7C0/emilio-estevez#family-companions|title=Companions for Emilio Estevez|publisher=Turner Classic Movies}} 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.{{Cite book|title=Demi Moore: The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood|first=Nigel|last=Goodall|year=2000|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=9781849894852}}{{Cite web| title= Emilio Estevez the History Boy| url= http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059785,00.html|first= Michael |last= Fleeman}} In 1986, Salley filed a $2 million paternity suit against Estevez.Trott, William C. (October 16, 1986). [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/10/16/QUESTION-OF-PATERNITY/1737529819200/ "Question of Paternity"]. United Press International. Estevez acknowledged paternity of Salley's children on June 1, 1987.{{Cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/4th/22/423.html|title=Estevez v. Superior Court (Salley) (1994)|website=Justia Law}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1998/04/24/paula-abdul-and-emilio-estevez-together-forever/|title=Paula Abdul and Emilio Estevez together forever?|first=Michael|last=Sauter|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|date=April 24, 1998|access-date=September 25, 2023}}

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".{{Cite web |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254340/missed-the-theater-rerelease-of-the-way-there-s-still-a-chance-to-see-it |title=Missed the rerelease of Emilio Estevez's 'The Way'? There's still a chance to see it |website=catholicnewsagency.com |date=2023-05-18 |access-date=2024-12-18}}

Filmography

=Film=

class = "wikitable sortable"

|+ 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

rowspan=2 | 1983

| The Outsiders

| Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews

Nightmares

| J.J. Cooney

| Segment: The Bishop of Battle

1984

| Repo Man

| Otto Maddox

rowspan=3 | 1985

| The Breakfast Club

| Andrew Clark

St. Elmo's Fire

| Kirby "Kirbo" Keger

That Was Then... This Is Now

| Mark Jennings

| Also writer

rowspan=2 | 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

rowspan=2 | 1990

| Young Guns II

| Billy the Kid

Men at Work

| James St. James

| Also director and writer

rowspan=2 | 1992

| Freejack

| Alex Furlong

The Mighty Ducks

| Gordon Bombay

rowspan=3 | 1993

| Loaded Weapon 1

| Sgt. Jack Colt

Another Stakeout

| Det. Bill Reimers

Judgment Night

| Francis Howard "Frank" Wyatt

1994

| D2: The Mighty Ducks

| Gordon Bombay

1995

| The Jerky Boys: The Movie

| {{N/A}}

| Executive producer

rowspan=3 | 1996

| Mission: Impossible

| Jack Harmon

| Uncredited role

The War at Home

| Jeremy Collier

| Also director and producer

D3: The Mighty Ducks

| Gordon Bombay

2000

| Sand

| Trip

2003

| The 3 Wise Men

| Belial

| Uncredited voice role; English dub

rowspan=2 | 2005

| The L.A. Riot Spectacular

| Laurence Powell

Culture Clash in AmeriCCa

| {{N/A}}

| Director; Documentary

rowspan=2 | 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

rowspan="2" | 2012

| Dear Dracula

| Myro

| rowspan="2" | Voice role

A Monster Christmas

| Mr. Winterbottom

2018

| The Public

| Stuart Goodson

| Also director and writer

2024

| Brats

| Himself

| Documentary

=Television=

class = "wikitable sortable"

|+ Television

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class = "unsortable" | Notes

1980-1982

| Insight

| Young Man / Pat / Stan / Steve Novak

| 4 episodes

rowspan=2 | 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

rowspan=2 | 1994

| Saturday Night Live

| Host

| Episode: Emilio Estevez/Pearl Jam

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

| rowspan=2|Television special

2002

| After Dark: South Beach

| Narrator

2003

| The West Wing

| Young Josiah "Jed" Bartlet

| Episode: Twenty Five; Cameo role

2003–2004

| The Guardian

| {{N/A}}

| Director; 3 episodes

2004–2005

| Cold Case

| {{N/A}}

| rowspan="2" | Director; 2 episodes

rowspan=3 | 2005

| CSI: NY

| {{N/A}}

Close to Home

| {{N/A}}

| Director; Episode: Baseball Murder

Criminal Minds{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/89157/Emilio-Estevez/filmography | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224110116/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/89157/Emilio-Estevez/filmography | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 24, 2008 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=The New York Times | date=2008 | title=Movies: Filmography for Emilio Estevez}}

| {{N/A}}

| Director

rowspan=2 | 2008

| Numb3rs

| {{N/A}}

| Director; Episode: Charlie Don't Surf

Two and a Half Men

| Andrew "Andy" Donald Patterson

| Episode: The Devil's Lube

2021–2022

| The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

| Gordon Bombay