
Martin Sheen
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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 F.B.I.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Hawaii Five-O

Cannon

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Golden Globe Awards

E! True Hollywood Story

The Defenders

Medical Center

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Sandman

The Colbert Report

Tales from the Crypt

Mannix

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Ghost Story

Route 66

Mission: Impossible

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Wild Cards

Ironside

Nature

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Two and a Half Men

The Graham Norton Show

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

Anger Management

Catch-22

Imagine That

Gandhi

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

The Dead Zone

The Nurses

Insight

The Boxcar Children

Firestarter

Mongo's Back in Town

The Departed

Babylon 5: The River of Souls

Love Happens

The Politics of the Dead Zone

The Amazing Spider-Man

For the People

12 Mighty Orphans

Catch Me If You Can

The American President

Gettysburg

Grace and Frankie

Wall Street

Hostile Waters

O

Sarge

A Matter of Justice

Come Sunday

Roswell

The West Wing

Spawn

Forget Me Never

Kennedy

Blind Ambition

Apocalypse Now

The Guardian

News at Eleven

Lost & Found in Cleveland

Curiosity

Man, Woman and Child
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