Martin Sheen
Acting
- Born:
- 1940-08-03
- Place of birth:
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story
The American Experiment
Lost & Found in Cleveland
aka Charlie Sheen
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
The Little Pageant That Could
Wild Cards
23 Seconds to Eternity
Downwind
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
12 Mighty Orphans
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
Princess of the Row
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
The Devil Has a Name
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
Come Sunday
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Rules Don't Apply
The Vessel
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Back to the Lane
Anne of Green Gables
Badge of Honor
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Unity
Grace and Frankie
Selma
A Prayer for Rain
Trash
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
The Boxcar Children
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Ask Me Anything
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Whale
Amazonia
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
Salinger
Making Badlands
Defending Gideon
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Death By China
Anger Management
The Amazing Spider-Man
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Stella Days
Brothers on the Line
8
The Double
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
Sharkwise
Miller's Tale
Halfway Home
The Kennedy Detail
The Way
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
Who Do You Think You Are?
Gloves of Stone
Love Happens
Imagine That
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
The Meaning of Life
Echelon Conspiracy
White House Revealed
Man in the Mirror
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Pirate for the Sea
The End of Poverty?
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
Talk to Me
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Bordertown
The Graham Norton Show
Flatland
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Father G and the Homeboys
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
The Departed
The Politics of the Dead Zone
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Bobby
Who Killed the Electric Car?
50 Films to See Before You Die
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
The Colbert Report
James Dean: Forever Young
The Friday Night Project
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Winning New Hampshire
The Nomi Song
Jerusalem Syndrome
Tell Them Who You Are
Celebrity Poker Showdown
The Commission
Hidden in Plain Sight
Two and a Half Men
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Mercy of the Sea
Absence of Malick
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Catch Me If You Can
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Bringing Down a Dictator
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
Enemies of War
O
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Crossing the Line
The Twelve Apostles
A Stranger in the Kingdom
The Time Shifters
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Forget Me Never
D.R.E.A.M. Team
The West Wing
Storm
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Lost & Found
No Code of Conduct
Gunfighter
The Darklings
Ninth Street
Total Recall 2070
A Texas Funeral
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Free Money
A Letter from Death Row
Monument Ave.
Shadrach
The Elevator
Voyage of Terror
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
Medusa's Child
Hostile Waters
Eyewitness: Monster
The View
Spawn
The Making of 'Spawn'
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
An Act of Conscience
Gun
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
The War at Home
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Spin City
E! True Hollywood Story
Sacred Cargo
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Mexico
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Project: ALF
The American President
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
The Miracle of Medjugorje
The Making of Eyewitness
Dead Presidents
Born Wild
The Break
Dillinger and Capone
Eyewitness
One Hundred and One Nights
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Fortunes of War
Hits!
Guns of Honor
Boca
Inside the Actors Studio
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Roswell
Trigger Fast
One of Her Own
When the Bough Breaks
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
Eyewitness: Shark
Alive: 20 Years Later
A Matter of Justice
Gettysburg
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Hear No Evil
Grey Knight
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
Braving Alaska
Alex Haley's Queen
The Water Engine
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Original Intent
JFK
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
The Maid
The Rites Of Mu
Touch and Die
Cadence
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The Simpsons
Another Time, Another Place
Beverly Hills Brats
Cold Front
Tales from the Crypt
Beyond the Stars
Nightbreaker
Marked for Murder
Judgment in Berlin
Da
Walking After Midnight
Promises to Keep
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Wall Street
Siesta
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
The Believers
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
A State of Emergency
Secrets of the Titanic
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
News at Eleven
Shattered Spirits
Out of the Darkness
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Spaceflight
Broken Rainbow
The Fourth Wise Man
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
In the Name of the People
The Atlanta Child Murders
Consenting Adult
The Real Thing
The Guardian
Firestarter
Choices of the Heart
Kennedy
The Dead Zone
Man, Woman and Child
In the King of Prussia
No Place to Hide
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
That Championship Season
Gandhi
Enigma
Nature
Centralia Fire
In the Custody of Strangers
I Love Liberty
Loophole
The Final Countdown
Eagle's Wing
Blind Ambition
Apocalypse Now
Taxi!!
The South Bank Show
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
The Cassandra Crossing
Saturday Night Live
Sweet Hostage
The Last Survivors
The Missiles of October
The Legend of Earl Durand
The California Kid
The Missiles of October
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
The Execution of Private Slovik
Message to My Daughter
The Catholics
Badlands
Toma
Letters from Three Lovers
Love Story (US)
A Prowler in the Heart
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Crime Club
Pursuit
Rage
That Certain Summer
When the Line Goes Through
The Streets of San Francisco
Ghost Story
The Rookies
Pickup on 101
No Drums, No Bugles
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Mongo's Back in Town
Film '72
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Columbo
Cannon
Montserrat
Matt Lincoln
Dan August
The Young Lawyers
Catch-22
The Andersonville Trial
Love, American Style
Medical Center
Hawaii Five-O
Then Came Bronson
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Subject Was Roses
Lancer
The Mod Squad
Pat Neal Is Back
The Incident
Mannix
Ironside
The Price of a Life
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
NET Playhouse
Mission: Impossible
The F.B.I.
For the People
Flipper
The Outer Limits
Arrest and Trial
The Nurses
The Mike Douglas Show
The Defenders
Route 66
Police Surgeon
Naked City
The Edge of Night
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards
The One
KITÁ
The Made-for-TV Election
Happy Jack