Emilio Estevez
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| Emilio Estevez | |
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| Born | Emilio Estévez May 12, 1962 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) | Paula Abdul (1992-1994) (divorced) |
Emilio Estévez (born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, director and writer. He started his career as an actor and is most famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack, most notably appearing in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Estévez was born in New York City, the eldest child of actor Martin Sheen and artist Janet Templeton. His siblings are Ramón Luis Estévez, Charlie Sheen, and Renée Estévez. Unlike his brother, Emilio and his other siblings did not adopt their father's stage name.[1]
He initially attended school in the New York public-school system, but transferred to a prestigious private academy once his father's career took off. When Estevez was eleven years old, his father bought the family a portable movie camera. Estevez, his brother Charlie, and their high school friends, Sean and Chris Penn, and Chad and Rob Lowe used the camera to make short films, which Estevez would often write. [2]
[edit] Brat Pack Years
Estévez received great attention during the 1980s for being a member of the Brat Pack, a group of young actors. Many unofficially perceived him as the leader of the group. [3] He and Rob Lowe established the Brat Pack when cast as supporting "Greasers" in the first Brat Pack movie, The Outsiders based on the novel, casting Lowe as C. Thomas Howell's older brother Sodapop, with Estevez as the drunken Two-Bit Matthews. During production, he also approached his character as a laid-back guy, and thought up Two-Bit's interest in Mickey Mouse, shown by his uniform of Mickey T-shirts and watching cartoons.
After The Outsiders, Estevez and Lowe were joined by other young actors, four of them costarring Estevez in the 80's classic The Breakfast Club. Later on, he appeared in Young Guns, and St. Elmo's Fire (featuring two of his Breakfast Club costars), and cowrote That Was Then, This Is Now. He also appeared in the cult film Repo Man (1984), as the punk-rocker turned car-repossessor Otto Maddox. He also starred in comedy/action Stakeout and horror film Maximum Overdrive.
[edit] Post-Brat Pack
In 1992, Estevez starred in The Mighty Ducks. He starred as Coach Bombay, a professional hockey player, who is forced into coaching a pee wee hockey team as a form of community service. The film was so successful that it was followed with two sequels. The following year Estevez starred in three films: the dark thriller Judgment Night, the spoof comedy Loaded Weapon 1 and comedy/action Another Stakeout, which was the sequel to his film Stakeout. Estevez has acted alongside his father several times. He starred with him in The War at Home (1996) in which he played a Vietnam War veteran dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder, and guest starred in one episode of The West Wing. From 1998 to 1999, he appeared in three television movies: Dollar for the Dead (1998), Late Last Night (1999), and Rated X (2000).
[edit] Directing career
Aside from acting, Estevez has also directed television shows and motion pictures. Most recently, he has directed episodes of the television series Cold Case, Close to Home, The Guardian and CSI: NY. The films he has directed include Wisdom, Men at Work, The War at Home and Bobby. Estevez has stated that he will direct and star in an independent film called "The Bang Bang Club", as well as that he currently has six screenplays that he has written that remain unproduced. Estevez said during an interview after one of the first screenings of Bobby that his next film will likely be Johnny Longshot. [4]
[edit] Personal life
Estevez has two children with his ex-girlfriend, model Carey Salley. They have a son, Taylor Levi Estevez (born in June 1984), and a daughter, Paloma Rae Estevez (born in February 1986).
He was briefly engaged to actress Demi Moore before the relationship ended. The two remain good friends and even starred as a feuding married couple in Bobby.
On April 29, 1992, he married singer-choreographer Paula Abdul. They divorced in May 1994, with Abdul later stating the reasons being her desire to have children as opposed to Estevez's contentment with the two children he already had. [5]
In 2006, he announced his engagement to writer Sonja Magdevski. [6]
[edit] Filmography
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| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
| 1982 | Tex | Johnny Collins | |
| 1983 | The Outsiders | Keith "Two-Bit" Matthews | |
| Nightmares | J.J. Cooney | Segment: Bishop of Battle | |
| 1984 | Repo Man | Otto Maddox | |
| 1985 | The Breakfast Club | Andrew "Andy" Clark | |
| St. Elmo's Fire | Kirby "Kirbo" Keger | ||
| That Was Then... This Is Now | Mark Jennings | Writer | |
| 1986 | Maximum Overdrive | Bill Robinson | |
| Wisdom | John Wisdom | Director/Writer | |
| 1987 | Stakeout | Det. Bill Reimers | |
| 1988 | Never on Tuesday | Tow Truck Driver | Cameo Role |
| Young Guns | William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney/Henry McCarty | ||
| 1990 | Young Guns II | William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney/Henry McCarty | |
| Men at Work | James St. James | Director/Writer | |
| 1992 | Freejack | Alex Furlong | |
| The Mighty Ducks | Gordon Bombay | ||
| 1993 | National Lampoon's 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 | only executive producer | |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Jack Harmon | Cameo Role |
| The War at Home | Jeremy Collier | Director and producer | |
| D3: The Mighty Ducks | Gordon Bombay | ||
| 2000 | Sand | Trip | |
| 2003 | The 3 Wise Men | Jimmy | Uncredited Voice Role (English Dub) |
| 2005 | The L.A. Riot Spectacular | Officer Powell | |
| Culture Clash in AmeriCCa | only director | ||
| 2006 | Bobby | Tim Fallon | Director/Writer |
| Arthur and the Invisibles | Ferryman | Voice Role (English Dub) | |
| 2009 | The Public | Pre-production director,writer and producer |
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | Seventeen Going on Nowhere | TV Short Film | |
| Insight | Episode: 17 Going Nowhere | ||
| 1981 | To Climb a Mountain | ||
| 1982 | Making the Grade | Episode: 1.5 | |
| In the Custody of Strangers | Danny Caldwell | ABC TV-Movie | |
| 1989 | Nightbreaker | Dr. Alexander Brown (Past) | TNT TV-Movie |
| 1994 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: Emilio Estevez/Pearl Jam |
| 1998 | Dollar for the Dead | Cowboy | TNT TV-Movie |
| 1999 | Late Last Night | Dan | TV-Movie |
| 2000 | Rated X | James Lowell "Jim" Mitchell | Showtime TV-Movie Director |
| 2003 | The West Wing | Young Josiah "Jed" Bartlet | Episode: Twenty Five Cameo Role |
| 2003, 2004 | The Guardian | Director: Episode: Hazel Park Episode: All is Mended Episode: The Watchers |
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| 2004, 2005 | Cold Case | Director Episode: The Sleepover Episode: Wishing |
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| 2005 | CSI: NY | Director Episode: The Dove Comission Episode: The Closer |
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| Close to Home | Director Episode: Baseball Murder |
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[edit] Awards & Nominations
- 1998: Nominated, "Outstanding Latino Director of a Feature Film" - The War at Home
- 1998: Nominated, "Outstanding Individual Performance in a Crossover Role in a Feature Film" - The War at Home
- 2006: Nominated, "Outstanding Director - Motion Picture" - Bobby
- 2006: Nominated, "Outstanding Screenplay - Motion Picture" - Bobby
- 2006: Nominated, "Outstanding Motion Picture" - Bobby
Hollywood Film Festival
- 2006: Won,, "Ensemble of the Year" - Bobby (shared w/co-stars)
- 2006: Nominated, "Best Film" - Bobby
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
- 2006: Won, "Behind the Camera Breakout Performance of the Year - Bobby
- 1987: Nominated, "Worst Actor" - Maximum Overdrive
- 2007: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" - Bobby (shared w/co-stars)
- 2006: Nominated, "Golden Lion (Best Film)" - Bobby
- 2006: Won, "Biografilm Award" - Bobby
- 1989: Won, "Bronze Wrangler (Theatrical Motion Picture)" - Young Guns (shared w/John Fusco, Christopher Cain, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland)
[edit] References
- ^ Biography for Emilio Estevez
- ^ http://movies.aol.com/celebrity/emilio-estevez/89157/biography
- ^ http://www.bratpackconfidential.com/brat-pack.html
- ^ http://www.close-upfilm.com/features/Interviews/estevez_bobby.html
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/paula_abdul/biography
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1531672,00.html
