Charlie Sheen's wild ride: A timeline

Despite the disgraced actor's long history of unruly behavior, he will star in a new TV pilot based on Anger Management. How did we get here?

Charlie Sheen stands backstage at the People's Choice awards in 2009: The troubled actor is returning to TV after being kicked off "Two and a Half Men."
(Image credit: REUTERS/Phil McCarten)

Charlie Sheen's acting career is defined by staggeringly steep ups and downs. He broke out in the '80s with roles in Red Dawn, Platoon, and Wall Street. But in the '90s the actor became more of a tabloid cover star than matinee idol. Successful TV gigs on Spin City and Two and a Half Men helped repair Sheen's image, before an almost year-long personal and professional meltdown left the actor unemployed and — in the eyes of many — unemployable. But against all odds and after many false rumors, Sheen is returning to TV in an adaptation of the 2003 Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson film Anger Management. How did Sheen go from being the highest-paid actor on TV, to jobless and reviled, to booking this new gig? Here, a timeline:

September 22, 2003

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