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