Martin Sheen
AKA: Μάρτιν Σιν
Birthday: 1940-08-03
Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022).
In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom Murphy Brown. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb.
Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors.
Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics.
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Filmography
Character: Captain Benjamin Willard
Character: Aurora Skipper
Character: Kit Carruthers
Character: Gen. Robert E. Lee
Character: Coach Duke Goulding
Character: Captain Hollister
Character: E.G. Sonderling
Character: Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Character: A.J. MacInerney
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Character: Father Kinsella
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Michael's Father
Character: General James Roberts
Character: Dr. Frank Irwin
Character: Himself (Narrator)
Character: Himself - Narrator
Character: Grandpa Sparta
Character: Herbert J. Stern
Character: Michael McCord
Character: Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
Character: Fr. Daniel Barry
Character: Frank Petersen
Character: Maj. Holliford
Character: Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Francis Labeck
Character: Captain Swaggert
Character: Theodore B. Olson
Character: Stephen Booker
Character: Jesse James Montgomery
Character: Frank Caldwell
Character: Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Character: Robert Beckwith
Character: James Marion Hunt
Character: Warren Anderson
Character: Judge Samuel Salus II
Character: Captain Williams
Character: Father Jozo Zovko
Character: Sigurd Moulton
Character: Alexander William Holmes
Character: Lester Baumgartner
Character: Henry Northcutt
Character: Padre Juilliard
Character: Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
Character: Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Character: Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Jules Worthman
Character: William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Character: Grandfather Alden (voice)
Character: Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Character: Matthew Cuthbert
Character: Father Douglas
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Harlan Garrison
Character: John Dillinger
Character: Arthur Square (voice)
Character: Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Character: Captain Daniel Richards
Character: Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Character: Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Matthew Cuthbert
Character: Matthew Cuthbert
Character: James Alden (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Lyle Mollencamp
Character: Self- Narrator (voice)
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: J. Edgar Hoover
Character: President Josiah Bartlet
Character: Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Character: Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
Character: Father Andrew Kanvesky
Character: Richard Conley
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Edward Miles Layton
Character: Voice of Marcos
Character: Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Dr. Austin Raybourne
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)