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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Known For
The Departed
(2006)
Capt. Oliver Charles Queenan
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012)
Uncle Ben
Catch Me If You Can
(2002)
Roger Strong
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(2014)
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Apocalypse Now
(1979)
Captain Benjamin Willard
JFK
(1991)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Badlands
(1974)
Kit Carruthers
Hot Shots! Part Deux
(1993)
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Wall Street
(1987)
Carl Fox
Selma
(2014)
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Gandhi
(1982)
Vince Walker
Spawn
(1997)
Jason Wynn
Gettysburg
(1993)
Gen. Robert E. Lee
The Final Countdown
(1980)
Warren Lasky
Imagine That
(2009)
Dante D'Enzo
Project: ALF
(1996)
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Full Filmography
Acting
The Inner Panic
(1962)
Mickey
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
(1966)
Kilroy
The Incident
(1967)
Artie Connors
The Price of a Life
(1967)
Edward Miles Layton
The Subject Was Roses
(1968)
Timmy Cleary
Pat Neal Is Back
(1968)
Himself
Then Came Bronson
(1969)
Nick Oresko
The Andersonville Trial
(1970)
Captain Williams
Catch-22
(1970)
1st Lt. Dobbs
Mongo's Back in Town
(1971)
Gordon
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
(1971)
Jules Worthman
Montserrat
(1971)
Pursuit
(1972)
Timothy Drew
No Drums, No Bugles
(1972)
Ashby Gatrell
Rage
(1972)
Maj. Holliford
That Certain Summer
(1972)
Gary McCain
Pickup on 101
(1972)
Lester Baumgartner
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
(1972)
Graytak
When the Line Goes Through
(1972)
The Catholics
(1973)
Father Kinsella
Message to My Daughter
(1973)
John Thatcher
Letters from Three Lovers
(1973)
Vincent
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
(1973)
Harlan Garrison
Crime Club
(1973)
Deputy Wilson
A Prowler in the Heart
(1973)
Tony Parrish
Badlands
(1974)
Kit Carruthers
The California Kid
(1974)
Michael McCord
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
(1974)
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
The Execution of Private Slovik
(1974)
Eddie Slovik
The Missiles of October
(1974)
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
The Legend of Earl Durand
(1974)
Luther Sykes
Sweet Hostage
(1975)
Leonard Hatch
The Last Survivors
(1975)
Alexander William Holmes
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
Robby Navarro
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
(1976)
Frank Hallet
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
(1977)
Self
Taxi!!
(1978)
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
(1979)
Captain Benjamin Willard
Eagle's Wing
(1979)
Pike
The Final Countdown
(1980)
Warren Lasky
Loophole
(1981)
Stephen Booker
Gandhi
(1982)
Vince Walker
Enigma
(1982)
Alex Holbeck
That Championship Season
(1982)
Tom Daley
In the Custody of Strangers
(1982)
Frank Caldwell
Centralia Fire
(1982)
Narrator
I Love Liberty
(1982)
Self
The Dead Zone
(1983)
Greg Stillson
Man, Woman and Child
(1983)
Robert Beckwith
In the King of Prussia
(1983)
Judge Samuel Salus II
Choices of the Heart
(1983)
Father Philan
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
(1983)
Self
Firestarter
(1984)
Captain Hollister
The Guardian
(1984)
Charlie Hyatt
The Fourth Wise Man
(1985)
Artaban
Consenting Adult
(1985)
Ken Lynd
In the Name of the People
(1985)
Narrator
Out of the Darkness
(1985)
Eddie Zigo
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
(1985)
Narrator
The Real Thing
(1985)
Narrator (voice)
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
(1986)
Mitch Snyder
Secrets of the Titanic
(1986)
Himself (Narrator)
A State of Emergency
(1986)
Alex Carmody
News at Eleven
(1986)
Frank Kenley
Shattered Spirits
(1986)
Lyle Mollencamp
Wall Street
(1987)
Carl Fox
The Believers
(1987)
Cal Jamison
Siesta
(1987)
Del
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
(1987)
James Marion Hunt
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
(1987)
Narrator
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
(1987)
Alan (voice)
Judgment in Berlin
(1988)
Herbert J. Stern
Da
(1988)
Charlie
Walking After Midnight
(1988)
Self
Promises to Keep
(1988)
Himself
Beyond the Stars
(1989)
Paul Andrews
Nightbreaker
(1989)
Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Beverly Hills Brats
(1989)
Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Marked for Murder
(1989)
Man in Park
Another Time, Another Place
(1989)
Richard Conley
Cadence
(1990)
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Cold Front
(1990)
John Hyde
Touch and Die
(1991)
Frank Magenta
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
(1991)
Self
The Maid
(1991)
Anthony Wayne
JFK
(1991)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
(1991)
Harold Hohne
The Rites Of Mu
(1991)
Narrator
Original Intent
(1992)
Homeless Joe
Gettysburg
(1993)
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Grey Knight
(1993)
Gen. Haworth
Hear No Evil
(1993)
Lt. Brock
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
(1993)
William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
Hot Shots! Part Deux
(1993)
Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Braving Alaska
(1993)
Narrator
Alive: 20 Years Later
(1993)
Narrator (voice)
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
(1993)
Roswell
(1994)
Townsend
Fortunes of War
(1994)
Francis Labeck
When the Bough Breaks
(1994)
Captain Swaggert
Boca
(1994)
Jesse James Montgomery
Trigger Fast
(1994)
Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
One of Her Own
(1994)
Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
Guns of Honor
(1994)
Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Hits!
(1994)
Kelly
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
(1994)
Narrator
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
(1994)
Self
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
(1994)
Narrator
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
(1994)
Narrator
The American President
(1995)
A.J. MacInerney
Born Wild
(1995)
Dan Walker
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
(1995)
Jeff Snyder
The Break
(1995)
Gil Robbins
Virgin Mary
(1995)
Father Jozo Zovko
Dillinger and Capone
(1995)
John Dillinger
Dead Presidents
(1995)
The Judge
One Hundred and One Nights
(1995)
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
(1995)
Voice of Marcos
Mexico
(1996)
Narrator (voice)
The War at Home
(1996)
Bob Collier
Project: ALF
(1996)
Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Sacred Cargo
(1996)
Father Andrew Kanvesky
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
(1996)
Dalton Trumbo
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
(1996)
Peter Maurin
Hostile Waters
(1997)
Aurora Skipper
Spawn
(1997)
Jason Wynn
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
(1997)
Sir
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
(1997)
Narrator
Medusa's Child
(1997)
President
The Making of 'Spawn'
(1997)
Himself
An Act of Conscience
(1997)
Narrator
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
(1998)
Soul Hunter
Free Money
(1998)
Guard
A Letter from Death Row
(1998)
Michael's Father
Shadrach
(1998)
Narrator (voice)
Holes in Heaven
(1998)
Narrator (voice)
Voyage of Terror
(1998)
Henry Northcutt
The Elevator
(1998)
Sarge
Monument Ave.
(1998)
Hanlon
No Code of Conduct
(1999)
Bill Peterson
Storm
(1999)
General James Roberts
A Texas Funeral
(1999)
Grandpa Sparta
Forget Me Never
(1999)
Jack
D.R.E.A.M. Team
(1999)
J.W. Garrison
A Stranger in the Kingdom
(1999)
Sigurd Moulton
Gunfighter
(1999)
The Stranger
Ninth Street
(1999)
Father Frank
The Twelve Apostles
(1999)
Narrator (voice)
The Darklings
(1999)
Ira Everett
The Time Shifters
(1999)
Grifasi
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
(1999)
Self
Lost & Found
(1999)
Millstone
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
(2000)
Narrator
O
(2001)
Coach Duke Goulding
Enemies of War
(2001)
Narrator
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
(2001)
Narrator
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
(2001)
Narrator
Catch Me If You Can
(2002)
Roger Strong
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
(2002)
Narrator (voice)
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
(2002)
Self
Bringing Down a Dictator
(2002)
Narrator (voice)
Mercy of the Sea
(2003)
Frederik
Absence of Malick
(2003)
Self
The Commission
(2003)
Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
Tell Them Who You Are
(2004)
Self
Jerusalem Syndrome
(2004)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
(2004)
Self
James Dean: Forever Young
(2005)
Narrator (voice)
Bobby
(2006)
Jack Stevens
Who Killed the Electric Car?
(2006)
Narrator (voice)
The Departed
(2006)
Capt. Oliver Charles Queenan
The Politics of the Dead Zone
(2006)
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
(2006)
Self
Bordertown
(2007)
George Morgan
Talk to Me
(2007)
E.G. Sonderling
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
(2007)
Himself - Narrator
Flatland
(2007)
Arthur Square (voice)
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
(2007)
Narrator
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
(2007)
Narrator
The End of Poverty?
(2008)
narrator
Vietnam: American Holocaust
(2008)
Voice
Pirate for the Sea
(2008)
Himself
They Killed Sister Dorothy
(2008)
Narrator
The Garden
(2008)
Self
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
(2008)
Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
(2008)
Self
Man in the Mirror
(2008)
Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
Love Happens
(2009)
Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Gloves of Stone
(2009)
Dr. Frank Irwin
Echelon Conspiracy
(2009)
Raymond Burke
Imagine That
(2009)
Dante D'Enzo
White House Revealed
(2009)
Self- Narrator (voice)
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
(2009)
Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
The Way
(2010)
Tom
The Kennedy Detail
(2010)
Narrator
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
(2010)
Self (archive footage)
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
(2010)
Self
The Double
(2011)
Tom Highland
Wrinkles
(2011)
(voice)
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
(2011)
Narrator
Miller's Tale
(2011)
Self
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
(2011)
Himself
Sharkwise
(2011)
Narrator
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012)
Uncle Ben
Stella Days
(2012)
Fr. Daniel Barry
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
(2012)
Frank Petersen
8
(2012)
Theodore B. Olson
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
(2012)
Himself
Death By China
(2012)
Narrator
Cyclone : pour le combattre il n'a que 3 heures
(2012)
Brothers on the Line
(2012)
Narrator
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
(2013)
Self
The Whale
(2013)
Tom Nickerson
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
(2013)
Narrator (voice)
Amazonia
(2013)
Making 'Badlands'
(2013)
Self
Salinger
(2013)
Self - Actor
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(2013)
Narrator
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(2014)
Uncle Ben (uncredited)
A Prayer for Rain
(2014)
Warren Anderson
Ask Me Anything
(2014)
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
(2014)
Himself
Trash
(2014)
Padre Juilliard
Selma
(2014)
Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
The Boxcar Children
(2014)
Grandfather Alden (voice)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
(2014)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Unity
(2015)
Narrator (voice)
Badge of Honor
(2015)
Captain Daniel Richards
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
(2015)
Himself
All Creatures Big and Small
(2015)
Anne of Green Gables
(2016)
Matthew Cuthbert
Rules Don't Apply
(2016)
Noah Dietrich
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
(2016)
Martin Sheen
The Vessel
(2016)
Father Douglas
Back to the Lane
(2016)
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
(2017)
Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
(2017)
Matthew Cuthbert
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
(2017)
Narrator
Come Sunday
(2018)
Oral Roberts
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
(2018)
James Alden (voice)
The Devil Has a Name
(2019)
Ralph
Bench
(2019)
Princess of the Row
(2020)
John Austin
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
(2020)
Self
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
(2020)
President Josiah Bartlet
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
(2020)
Himself
12 Mighty Orphans
(2021)
Doc Hall
Judas and the Black Messiah
(2021)
J. Edgar Hoover
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
(2021)
Narrator
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
Downwind
(2023)
Self Narrator
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Production
Nightbreaker
(1989)
Executive Producer
The Map to Paradise
(2019)
Producer
Vigilante
(2023)
Executive Producer
Writing
Directing