Martin Sheen
Acting
Born August 3, 1940 · 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.
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Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
2024
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
23 Seconds to Eternity
2023
Downwind
2023
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
2021
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
2020
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
2020
Princess of the Row
2020
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020
The Devil Has a Name
2019
Bench
2019
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
2018
Come Sunday
2018
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
2017
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
2017
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
2017
Rules Don't Apply
2016
The Vessel
2016
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
Back to the Lane
2016
Anne of Green Gables
2016
Badge of Honor
2015
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015
Unity
2015
Selma
2014
A Prayer for Rain
2014
Trash
2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
The Boxcar Children
2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014
Ask Me Anything
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
The Whale
2013
Amazonia
2013
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
2013
Salinger
2013
Making Badlands
2013
Defending Gideon
2013
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
Death By China
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Stella Days
2012
Brothers on the Line
2012
8
2012
The Double
2011
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
2011
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
2011
Sharkwise
2011
Miller's Tale
2011
Halfway Home
2011
The Kennedy Detail
2010
The Way
2010
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010
Gloves of Stone
2009
Love Happens
2009
Imagine That
2009
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
2009
Echelon Conspiracy
2009
White House Revealed
2009
Man in the Mirror
2008
Vietnam: American Holocaust
2008
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
Pirate for the Sea
2008
The End of Poverty?
2008
They Killed Sister Dorothy
2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
2007
Talk to Me
2007
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
Bordertown
2007
Flatland
2007
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
2007
Father G and the Homeboys
2007
The Departed
2006
The Politics of the Dead Zone
2006
Bobby
2006
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
James Dean: Forever Young
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Winning New Hampshire
2004
The Nomi Song
2004
Jerusalem Syndrome
2004
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
The Commission
2003
Hidden in Plain Sight
2003
Mercy of the Sea
2003
Absence of Malick
2003
Catch Me If You Can
2002
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Bringing Down a Dictator
2002
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
2001
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
2001
Enemies of War
2001
O
2001
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
2000
Crossing the Line
1999
The Twelve Apostles
1999
A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999
The Time Shifters
1999
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999
Forget Me Never
1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999
Storm
1999
Lost & Found
1999
No Code of Conduct
1999
Gunfighter
1999
The Darklings
1999
Ninth Street
1999
A Texas Funeral
1999
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998
Free Money
1998
A Letter from Death Row
1998
Monument Ave.
1998
Shadrach
1998
The Elevator
1998
Voyage of Terror
1998
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
1998
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
1998
Medusa's Child
1997
Hostile Waters
1997
Eyewitness: Monster
1997
Spawn
1997
The Making of 'Spawn'
1997
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
An Act of Conscience
1997
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
1997
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
1997
The War at Home
1996
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
1996
Sacred Cargo
1996
Mexico
1996
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996
Project: ALF
1996
The American President
1995
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
1995
Virgin Mary
1995
The Making of Eyewitness
1995
Dead Presidents
1995
Born Wild
1995
The Break
1995
Dillinger and Capone
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
1995
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994
Fortunes of War
1994
Hits!
1994
Guns of Honor
1994
Boca
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
Roswell
1994
Trigger Fast
1994
One of Her Own
1994
When the Bough Breaks
1994
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
1994
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
1994
Eyewitness: Shark
1994
Alive: 20 Years Later
1993
Gettysburg
1993
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
Hear No Evil
1993
Grey Knight
1993
Braving Alaska
1993
The Water Engine
1992
Original Intent
1992
JFK
1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
The Maid
1991
The Rites Of Mu
1991
Touch and Die
1991
Cadence
1990
Another Time, Another Place
1989
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
Cold Front
1989
Beyond the Stars
1989
Nightbreaker
1989
Marked for Murder
1989
Judgment in Berlin
1988
Da
1988
Walking After Midnight
1988
Promises to Keep
1988
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
Wall Street
1987
Siesta
1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
The Believers
1987
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987
A State of Emergency
1986
Secrets of the Titanic
1986
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986
News at Eleven
1986
Shattered Spirits
1986
Out of the Darkness
1985
Broken Rainbow
1985
The Fourth Wise Man
1985
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
1985
In the Name of the People
1985
Consenting Adult
1985
The Real Thing
1985
The Guardian
1984
Firestarter
1984
Choices of the Heart
1983
The Dead Zone
1983
Man, Woman and Child
1983
In the King of Prussia
1983
No Place to Hide
1983
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
That Championship Season
1982
Gandhi
1982
Enigma
1982
Centralia Fire
1982
In the Custody of Strangers
1982
I Love Liberty
1982
Loophole
1981
The Final Countdown
1980
Eagle's Wing
1979
Apocalypse Now
1979
Taxi!!
1978
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
Sweet Hostage
1975
The Last Survivors
1975
The Missiles of October
1974
The Legend of Earl Durand
1974
The California Kid
1974
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1974
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
Badlands
1974
Message to My Daughter
1973
The Catholics
1973
Letters from Three Lovers
1973
A Prowler in the Heart
1973
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
1973
Crime Club
1973
Pursuit
1972
Rage
1972
That Certain Summer
1972
When the Line Goes Through
1972
Pickup on 101
1972
No Drums, No Bugles
1972
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
1971
Montserrat
1971
Catch-22
1970
The Andersonville Trial
1970
Then Came Bronson
1969
The Subject Was Roses
1968
Pat Neal Is Back
1968
The Incident
1967
The Price of a Life
1967
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966