Martin Sheen

Known for ActingBorn 1940-08-03 (age 85)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Vigilante

Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color

On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight

Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial

Braving Alaska

Crime Club

Montserrat

Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth

Another Time, Another Place

Winning New Hampshire

Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War

Sacred Cargo

Hits!

Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen

Vietnam: American Holocaust

Walking After Midnight

Spaceflight

No Place to Hide

A Matter of Justice

50 Films to See Before You Die

The Missiles of October

National Geographic: Inside the Vatican

The West Wing

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Departed

Making Badlands

E! True Hollywood Story

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Apocalypse Now

Catch Me If You Can

The End of Poverty?

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Simpsons

Arrest and Trial

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

News at Eleven

Tales from the Crypt

Grace and Frankie

The Boxcar Children

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Columbo

Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

aka Charlie Sheen

Message to My Daughter