The Most Successful Celebrity Children

1. Emilio Estevez Martin Sheen’s eldest child decided to go against the family grain and keep his Hispanic surname, while his father and Charlie Sheen, his brother, adopted Anglo-Saxon last names to make it in Hollywood. Estevez is best known to Gen-Xers as a member of the “Brat Pack,” starring in the 1980s classics The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire. He did star with brother, Charlie, in a slapstick comedy, Men at Work. Estevez gained critical acclaim as a writer and director for his movies Bobby, about the day Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and most recently The Way, which he also stars in alongside his father.

Charlie Sheen: The youngest and most notorious of Martin Sheen’s children, Charlie is nevertheless a talented actor and showed as much when he commanded the starring roles the 1980s Academy Award-winning movies Platoon and Wall Street. This generation knows him best, of course, for the television show “Two and a Half Men,” as well as his dalliances with ex-wife Denise Richards and penchant for patronizing prostitutes. After a very public meltdown last year, Sheen has recovered and is working to reestablish his image with FX’s new show Anger Management.