
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
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Vigilante
2023 · Movie
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Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017 · Movie
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Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015 · Movie
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The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013 · Movie
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The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
2003 · Series
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On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
2000 · Movie
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Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996 · Movie
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Braving Alaska
1993 · Movie
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Crime Club
1973 · Movie
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Montserrat
1971 · Movie
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Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
2013 · Movie
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Another Time, Another Place
1989 · Movie
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Winning New Hampshire
2004 · Movie
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
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Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
1998 · Movie
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Sacred Cargo
1996 · Movie
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Hits!
1994 · Movie
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Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
2024 · Movie
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Vietnam: American Holocaust
2008 · Movie
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Walking After Midnight
1988 · Movie
Spaceflight
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Spaceflight
1985 · Series
No Place to Hide
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No Place to Hide
1983 · Movie
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A Matter of Justice
1993 · Series
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50 Films to See Before You Die
2006 · Movie
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The Missiles of October
1974 · Series
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National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
2001 · Movie
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
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The West Wing
1999 · Series
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The Departed
2006 · Movie
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Making Badlands
2013 · Movie
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E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
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A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020 · Movie
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Apocalypse Now
1979 · Movie
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America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006 · Series
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Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Movie
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The End of Poverty?
2008 · Movie
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · Series
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The Simpsons
1989 · Series
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Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Series
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Arrest and Trial
1963 · Series
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The Boxcar Children
2014 · Movie
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986 · Movie
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News at Eleven
1986 · Movie
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Grace and Frankie
2015 · Series
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Movie
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Columbo
1971 · Series
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Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977 · Movie
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Nature
1982 · Series
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aka Charlie Sheen
2025 · Series