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).
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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.
Movies (Cast)
Catch Me If You Can
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Departed
The Incident
Wall Street
Apocalypse Now
Echelon Conspiracy
Grey Knight
Boca
The Double
Bordertown
The Way
Badlands
Firestarter
Free Money
Gettysburg
Trash
Bobby
Original Intent
JFK
Hostile Waters
Monument Ave.
Gandhi
Project: ALF
Amazonia
Loophole
Storm
Shadrach
Catch-22
Nightbreaker
The Break
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Come Sunday
The Darklings
Enigma
Roswell
Stella Days
Anne of Green Gables
Mercy of the Sea
Cold Front
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Believers
The Guardian
Imagine That
Cadence
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
The Commission
Sweet Hostage
Pursuit
That Certain Summer
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
The Catholics
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Born Wild
A Prayer for Rain
When the Bough Breaks
Talk to Me
The Elevator
12 Mighty Orphans
Badge of Honor
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
The American President
Ask Me Anything
Spawn
The Devil Has a Name
Rules Don't Apply
Taxi!!
Beyond the Stars
Hot Shots! Part Deux
The California Kid
The Cassandra Crossing
Love Happens
The Time Shifters
The War at Home
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Hear No Evil
Dillinger and Capone
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Siesta
Princess of the Row
Judgment in Berlin
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
The Missiles of October
The Final Countdown
Medusa's Child
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
The Execution of Private Slovik
Choices of the Heart
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Eagle's Wing
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Voyage of Terror
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Forget Me Never
The Last Survivors
The Andersonville Trial
Out of the Darkness
Da
A Stranger in the Kingdom
A Texas Funeral
The Water Engine
In the Custody of Strangers
The Dead Zone
Gloves of Stone
Virgin Mary
One of Her Own
One Hundred and One Nights
Message to My Daughter
Letters from Three Lovers
Jerusalem Syndrome
The Boxcar Children
Gunfighter
Flatland
The Fourth Wise Man
That Championship Season
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
23 Seconds to Eternity
Mongo's Back in Town
Man in the Mirror
Dead Presidents
The Subject Was Roses
News at Eleven
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Beverly Hills Brats
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Shattered Spirits
Selma
Fortunes of War
Consenting Adult
Then Came Bronson
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Touch and Die
The Legend of Earl Durand
When the Line Goes Through
No Drums, No Bugles
O
Man, Woman and Child
The Maid
A Letter from Death Row
Lost & Found
Hits!
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Guns of Honor
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Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'