Elder of 2 daughters born to Irv and Joni Richards. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a model, and moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She landed parts in both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances in Starship Troopers with Casper Van Dien, Wild Things and The World Is Not Enough, in which she plays a Bond Girl. She also was in Undercover Brother with Eddie Griffin and appeared in Scary Movie 3 with her husband, Charlie Sheen.



Enjoys kickboxing. Attended El Camino High School in Oceanside, California located 25 miles north of San Diego, California. Former model. Loving animals, she has several cats and dogs. Her parents now own a coffeehouse named "Jitters" in San Diego. Auditioned for the role of Beth in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995). Attended Downers Grove North High School in Illinois for her freshman year. Engaged to Charlie Sheen (January 2002). Gave birth to her daughter Sam Sheen, weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces, on 9 March 2004 at 10:57 p.m in Los Angeles. Ranked #21 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002). Ex-daughter-in-law of Martin Sheen and Janet Sheen. Once worked as a grocery clerk. She and Charlie Sheen both had very small roles in Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) (they do not share on-screen time), years before they met and fell in love on the set of Good Advice (2001). She and her ex-husband Charlie Sheen have both guest-starred on "Friends" (1994), though not in the same episode. Drives a Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG. One of her first acting roles was in an episode of "Doogie Howser, M.D.: Doogstruck (#3.8)" (1991), which starred Neil Patrick Harris, in which Richards played a girl being interviewed by Doogie as a potential girlfriend candidate. Several years later, she and Harris co-starred in Starship Troopers (1997) and again in Undercover Brother (2002). Ranked as #82 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005) Named #89 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006). Voted the "Worst Bond Girl of All Time" by the readers of British newspaper Daily Mail for her performance in The World Is Not Enough (1999) (February 2008). Charlie Sheen surrendered custody of their daughters Sam Sheen and Lola Rose Sheen to Denise. She sought full custody after Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller had a domestic dispute over Christmas 2009. [May 2010].