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Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

Acting · Production

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (66)
  • aka Charlie Sheen — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024The Little Pageant That Could — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Downwind — Self Narrator
  • 2020Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture — Self
  • Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments — Self (archive footage)
  • 2020Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story — Self
  • 2020The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous — Self
  • 2015Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • 2014Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey — Self
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self
  • 2014Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire — Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • 2013Making Badlands — Self
  • 2013Salinger — Self - Actor
  • 2013Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot — Self
  • 2012Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn — Self
  • 20119/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up — Self
  • 2011Miller's Tale — Self
  • 2010A Conversation with Martin Sheen — Self
  • Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
  • The Meaning of Life — Self
  • 2009White House Revealed — Self- Narrator (voice)
  • 2008Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary — Self
  • 2008Notes on an American Film Director at Work — Self
  • 2008Pirate for the Sea — Self
  • 2008The End of Poverty? — Self - Narrator
  • 2007Confessions Of An Innocent Man — Self - Narrator
  • Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 200650 Films to See Before You Die — Self
  • 2006The Politics of the Dead Zone — Self
  • 2006Who Killed the Electric Car? — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • The Colbert Report — Self - Guest
  • The Friday Night Project — Self - Host
  • 2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde — Self
  • 2004Tell Them Who You Are — Self
  • 2004The Nomi Song — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Winning New Hampshire — Self
  • 2003Absence of Malick — Self
  • Celebrity Poker Showdown — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self - Guest
  • 2002Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick — Self
  • 1999Crossing the Line — self
  • 1999In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story — Self
  • 1998Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War — Self - Narrator
  • 1997The Making of 'Spawn' — Self
  • The View — Self, Self - Guest
  • E! True Hollywood Story — Self
  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994Marlon Brando: The Wild One — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • 1993The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream — Self / The Kralahome (voice)
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Guest
  • 1991Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse — Self
  • 1988Promises to Keep — Self
  • 1988Walking After Midnight — Self
  • 1986Secrets of the Titanic — Self - Narrator
  • 1983Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi — Self
  • 1982I Love Liberty — Self
  • 1977Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
  • Film '72 — Self
  • 1968Pat Neal Is Back — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Presenter, Self - Winner
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