Martin Sheen
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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.
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Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Hawaii Five-O
Cannon
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Golden Globe Awards
E! True Hollywood Story
The F.B.I.
Medical Center
Mannix
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Sandman
The Colbert Report
Tales from the Crypt
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Ghost Story
Route 66
Mission: Impossible
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Ironside
The Defenders
Nature
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Two and a Half Men
The Graham Norton Show
Anger Management
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
The Rookies
Flipper
Lancer
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Simpsons
LateLine
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Columbo
JFK
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Edge of Night
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Selma
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
The Atlanta Child Murders
Alex Haley's Queen
Catch-22
Imagine That
Gandhi
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The Dead Zone
The Nurses
The Boxcar Children
The Politics of the Dead Zone
The Amazing Spider-Man
Mongo's Back in Town
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
The Departed
Insight
Firestarter
Love Happens
Catch Me If You Can
For the People
12 Mighty Orphans
Grace and Frankie
The American President
Wall Street
Gettysburg
A Matter of Justice
Roswell
The West Wing
Sarge
O
Come Sunday
Spawn
Hostile Waters
Forget Me Never
Man, Woman and Child
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Kennedy
Apocalypse Now
News at Eleven
Blind Ambition
Curiosity
The Guardian
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