Emilio Estevez's Real Name: Emilio Estevez

Quick answer: Emilio Estevez is known professionally and in library catalogs as Emilio Estevez. Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, via Encyclopedia.com, records that he was born May 12, 1962, in New York City, the son of the actor Martin Sheen, whose birth name is given there as Ramon Estevez (Encyclopedia.com). He is an American actor, screenwriter, and director known for The Breakfast Club, Repo Man, and The Mighty Ducks.

Real name and early life

The Library of Congress heading is "Estevez, Emilio, 1962-." A 1985 Contemporary Newsmakers entry cited in that record also places his birth in New York in 1962 and identifies him as the son of Martin Sheen and Janet Estevez. The Encyclopedia.com biography lists siblings including the actors Ramon Estevez, Charlie Sheen, and Renee Estevez. He kept the family surname Estevez as his professional name. The same source says he studied screenwriting and made amateur films before his first credited screen work.

Career highlights

Estevez appeared as an extra in Apocalypse Now (1979) and had early television work including an ABC Afterschool Special and the 1982 television film In the Custody of Strangers, as well as early film roles in Tex (1982) and The Outsiders (1983). In 1984 he starred as Otto Maddox in Repo Man. The following year he played Andrew Clark in The Breakfast Club and appeared in St. Elmo's Fire and That Was Then... This Is Now, the last of which he also adapted. Encyclopedia.com notes that John Willis' Screen World named him one of the most promising new actors of 1985.

He later starred in Stakeout (1987) and as Billy the Kid in Young Guns (1988) and Young Guns II (1990); Young Guns later brought a Bronze Wrangler Western Heritage award, shared with others, according to Encyclopedia.com. He wrote and directed Wisdom (1986), his first feature as a director, and Men at Work (1990). A broad later audience knew him as coach Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks (1992) and its sequels. He directed and appeared in The War at Home (1996). Encyclopedia.com, in a credits list compiled around the mid-2000s, already includes Bobby among his later directing and acting credits.

Name notes for searchers

Emilio Estevez is both the public name and the name used in library headings. Searchers who know him as Martin Sheen's son, or who are looking for the actor from The Breakfast Club or The Mighty Ducks, are usually aiming at the same person.