Charles Francis "Charlie" Harper is a fictional character from the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. Played by actor Charlie Sheen, the character has garnered three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series. Charlie is the brother of Alan Harper and the uncle of Jake Harper.

Charlie formerly wrote jingles for a living, his most famous composition being the Maple Loops song, and became a successful children's music singer named "Charlie Waffles" when the jingle business dried up. The character of Charlie Harper is loosely based on Charlie Sheen, the actor who portrays the character. (In addition, it is the third character that has the same first name as Sheen, who had previously portrayed deputy mayor Charlie Crawford in Spin City and "Charlie" from All Dogs Go to Heaven 2.) Charlie prides himself his bachelor lifestyle Malibu and drives a Mercedes, and a Ferrari (and formerly a Jaguar).

His lifestyle consists of living in a two-story Malibu beachfront home, drinking excessively, smoking cigars, constant womanizing, a full-time maid/housekeeper, gambling, and wearing expensive bowling shirts and shorts the vast majority of the time. Charlie sleeps in constantly, money "falls into his lap", and lives life on his own terms - one of free spirited debauchery. When Charlie's mother Evelyn was pregnant with him, his parents thought that he was going to be a girl, since the echo showed no signs of a penis.

According to Evelyn, Charlie was always "a little drama queen" when he grew up. After his father died, Charlie and his brother had three step dads. First, a man named Harry Luther Gorsky, who left Charlie and Alan's mother for a young woman, Charlie refers to him as "a little tyrant".

Second was a twitchy gay man from Texas who called him and Alan "buckaroos". Third, there was a fat guy with a carpet business, who Charlie liked the most because he had "a grateful daughter".

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