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Emilio Estevez is a talented actor, producer, director and writer. He was born on 12 May, 1962, in New York to the famous actor Martin Sheen and artist Janet. Actors Ramón Luis Estevez, Charlie Sheen and Renée Estevez are his siblings. Even as a child, Emilio was extremely creative and he took to writing short stories and poems. On his eleventh birthday, his parents gave him a portable movie camera and so began his love of film making. Emilio Estevez started making home movies featuring his family and friends and started acting in school plays to explore his acting talent.

Emilio Estevez received his first professional role in the movie Apocalypse Now, which also featured his father. However, the small role was edited out. In his senior year in high school he wrote a play, Echoes of an Era. He also got to work with his father again on stage in the play, Mr. Roberts. After graduating from high school in 1980, he landed himself a role in the ABC After-school Special, Seventeen Going on Nowhere. Emilio decided to use Estevez as his last name in show business instead of Sheen which was used by his father. He got his big break in the movie Tex in 1982 which also starred Matt Dillon. His movie career took off in the 1980s when he featured in movies such as The Outsiders (1983), Repo Man (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), Maximum Overdrive (1986) and Young Guns (1988). During this time, the actor was said to be part of the “Brat Pack” along with young Hollywood stars like Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe.

Estevez took a step towards a career in directing in 1986 when he directed the movie Wisdom at just 23 years old. However, the movie wasn’t a major success. In the 1990s, he appeared in movies such as Young Guns II (1990), The Mighty Ducks (1992), National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996). The Mighty Ducks movie series made Estevez popular with younger audiences. Emilio Estevez also directed the movie Men at Work in 1990 and The War at Home in 1996. He has appeared in fewer movies post 2000, although has starred in The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005) and also directed Bobby (2006) and the TV movie Rated X.



Emilio Estevez has been linked with several women. He was in a relationship with actress Demi Moore and model Carey Salley. He has two children by Carey Salley – Taylor Levi Estevez and Paloma Rae Estevez. He also married singer Paula Abdul in 1992, but they divorced in 1994. Emilio Estevez has been recently linked with journalist, Sonja Magdevski.