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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 R…
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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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2026
American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story
Movie Narrator
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2026
The American Experiment
TV show George Washington
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2025
Lost & Found in Cleveland
Movie Dr. Austin Raybourne
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2025
aka Charlie Sheen
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
Movie Presenter
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2024
The Little Pageant That Could
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Wild Cards
TV show Jonathan Ashford
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2023
23 Seconds to Eternity
Movie Narrator
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2023
Vigilante
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Downwind
Movie Self Narrator
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show
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2021
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
Movie Narrator
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2021
12 Mighty Orphans
Movie Doc Hall
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2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Movie J. Edgar Hoover
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2020
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Movie Self
- 2020
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2020
Princess of the Row
Movie John Austin
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2020
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Movie Josiah Bartlet
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2020
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
TV show Self (archive footage)
- 2020
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2019
The Devil Has a Name
Movie Ralph
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2019
The Map to Paradise
Movie Producer
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2018
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
Movie James Alden (voice)
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2018
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2018
Come Sunday
Movie Oral Roberts
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2017
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
Movie Narrator
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2017
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Movie Matthew Cuthbert
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2017
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
Movie Matthew Cuthbert
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2017
Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2017
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
Movie Narrator
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2016
Rules Don't Apply
Movie Noah Dietrich
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2016
The Vessel
Movie Father Douglas
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2016
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Movie Martin Sheen
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2016
Back to the Lane
Movie
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2016
Anne of Green Gables
Movie Matthew Cuthbert
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2015
Badge of Honor
Movie Captain Daniel Richards
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2015
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Movie Self
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Unity
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2015
Grace and Frankie
TV show Robert Hanson
