Lynskey first appeared as a series regular on “Two and a Half Men” from Season 1 through 3, and then became a guest star from Season 3 on.
In Sept. 2025, Jon Cryer revealed that his payday while starring on the show as Alan Harper was “a third” of co-star Charlie Sheen’s.
“The dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong-Il. He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him,” Cryer explained. “Well, that’s what happened here. [Sheen’s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that.”
Sheen was making $1.9 million an episode according to a 2011 report in Forbes magazine.
