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            Charlie Sheen's main medium to begin his career was through Film. Sheen has been in the film and television industry since 1984. His first feature film was Platoon (Stone, 1985), where Sheen plays Chris Taylor, a young man who drops out of college to volunteer to fight in the Vietnam War.  This was a break-out film for Sheen, with Platoon being nominated and winning several Oscars for the film. 

            Sheen's next big film was Wall Street (Stone, 1987) where he co-starred with Michael Douglas and father, Martin Sheen.  Where he played Bud Fox, a young ambitious New York City stock broker.  Charlie Sheen also played Bud Fox in a small role in the remake Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Stone, 2010) also co-starring Michael Douglas.

            Heading into the 90's Sheen was cast to play Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in the sports comedies Major League (Ward, 1989) and Major League II (Ward, 1994).  Some would argue that Sheen's "Bad Boy" persona started while playing Bud Fox in Wall Street.  We would argue that playing Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn began his "Bad Boy" persona due to the timeline of his personal and legal troubles.

            Beginning in the year 2000 Charlie Sheen made a jump into television starring in the television series Spin City (DreamWorks,Goldberg and Lawrence, ABC, 2000-2002).  Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox who played a Deputy Mayor named Flaherty.  Sheen's character, Charlie Crawford, finds himself in New York's City Hall protecting the incompetent Mayor from himself.  Spin City was cancelled in 2002.

            In 2003 Sheen starred in another television series Two and A Half Men (Lorre and Aronsohn, CBS, 2003-2011), as a Charlie Harper.  I single jingle writer who lets his brother and his brother's son, Jake, move-in to his Malibu beach house.  Harper is a mid-aged never been married bachelor who decides that maintain the same lifestyle even with his brother and nephew living in the house.  Harper constantly drinks and engages in a variety of other vices including woman and gambling. 

            Many would suggest that much of Charlie Sheen's fictional roles and personal life have some parallels.  We consider this a bi-directional relationship (a relationship that goes both ways).  This is apparent in his role as Charlie Harper in Two and A Half Men.  Harper has addictions to alcohol and gambling, many times drinking during the middle of the day.  Harper also has several failed relationships with women due to his constant infidelity.  Harper also cares fore his nephew which he gives advice, attends school functions, and provides for.  Many of these same traits we see in Charlie Harper directly parallel Charlie Sheens very public private life.