Martin Sheen
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).
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.
Born
Aug 03, 1940
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
270 acting
7 crew
Popularity
3.9
Known For
The Departed
2006
as Queenan
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Roger Strong
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Captain Benjamin Willard
The Dead Zone
1983
as Greg Stillson
Wall Street
1987
as Carl Fox
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
as J. Edgar Hoover
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
JFK
1991
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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