
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.

Captain Benjamin Willard
Apocalypse Now

Frank Magenta
Touch and Die

Queenan
The Departed

Roger Strong
Catch Me If You Can

Aurora Skipper
Hostile Waters

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

Vince Walker
Gandhi

Bill Peterson
No Code of Conduct

Kit Carruthers
Badlands

Jason Wynn
Spawn

Gen. Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg

Carl Fox
Wall Street

Jack Stevens
Bobby

Self
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Alex Holbeck
Enigma

Soul Hunter
Babylon 5: The River of Souls

George Morgan
Bordertown

Coach Duke Goulding
O

Greg Stillson
The Dead Zone

Leonard Hatch
Sweet Hostage

Sir
Truth or Consequences, N.M.

Guard
Free Money

E.G. Sonderling
Talk to Me

Mitch Snyder
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

Captain Hollister
Firestarter

Narrator
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed

Robby Navarro
The Cassandra Crossing

Warren Lasky
The Final Countdown

Cal Jamison
The Believers

Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Love Happens

A.J. MacInerney
The American President

Narrator
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace

Self
A Conversation with Martin Sheen

Self
Tell Them Who You Are

Narrator (voice)
Who Killed the Electric Car?

MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Cadence

Lester Baumgartner
Pickup on 101

Self
I Love Liberty

Del
Siesta

Townsend
Roswell

Father Kinsella
The Catholics

Narrator (voice)
Mexico

Self
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

Narrator (voice)
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action

Self
50 Films to See Before You Die

Michael's Father
A Letter from Death Row

General James Roberts
Storm

Dr. Frank Irwin
Gloves of Stone

Raymond Burke
Echelon Conspiracy

Artie Connors
The Incident

Millstone
Lost & Found

Self - Narrator
Secrets of the Titanic

Fallen Soldier / JC Super Star / Man in Black
Man in the Mirror

Grandpa Sparta
A Texas Funeral

Gen. Haworth
Grey Knight

Self - Narrator
Confessions Of An Innocent Man

Herbert J. Stern
Judgment in Berlin

Self - Narrator
The End of Poverty?

Frank Hallet
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Artaban
The Fourth Wise Man

Dante D'Enzo
Imagine That

Timothy Drew
Pursuit

Michael McCord
The California Kid

Lt. Brock
Hear No Evil

Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

Dan Walker
Born Wild

Narrator (voice)
Shadrach

Tom Highland
The Double

John Dillinger
Dillinger and Capone

Paul Andrews
Beyond the Stars

Ashby Gatrell
No Drums, No Bugles

Tom
The Way

Voice of Marcos
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
The Missiles of October

Eddie Slovik
The Execution of Private Slovik

Fr. Daniel Barry
Stella Days

Bob Collier
The War at Home

Narrator (voice)
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology

Anthony Wayne
The Maid

Frank Petersen
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Maj. Holliford
Rage

Uncle Ben (uncredited)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Narrator (voice)
James Dean: Forever Young

Narrator
Death By China

Stephen Booker
Loophole

Charlie
Da

Captain Swaggert
When the Bough Breaks

Gary McCain
That Certain Summer

Narrator
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White

Self
Miller's Tale

Pike
Eagle's Wing

Ken Lynd
Consenting Adult

John Hyde
Cold Front

Tom Daley
That Championship Season

Dalton Trumbo
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial

Narrator
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster

Self Narrator
Downwind

Timmy Cleary
The Subject Was Roses

Narrator
In the Name of the People

Narrator
An Act of Conscience

Gordon
Mongo's Back in Town

Jesse James Montgomery
Boca

Jack
Forget Me Never

Robert Beckwith
Man, Woman and Child

Frank Caldwell
In the Custody of Strangers

Padre Juilliard
Trash

Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Nightbreaker

Self
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up

Nick Oresko
Then Came Bronson

Jeff Snyder
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Jackson Baines Hardin / Ole Devil
Trigger Fast

J.W. Garrison
D.R.E.A.M. Team

Franz Jagerstätter (voice)
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience

John Thatcher
Message to My Daughter

Vincent
Letters from Three Lovers

Voice
Vietnam: American Holocaust

Jackson Baines Hardin (Ole Devil)
Guns of Honor

Narrator (voice)
Eyewitness: Dinosaur

Eddie Zigo
Out of the Darkness

Charlie Hyatt
The Guardian

Self
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

Tom Nickerson
The Whale

Alex Carmody
A State of Emergency

Father Jozo Zovko
Gospa, The Miracle of Medjugorje

Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man

James Marion Hunt
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

Francis Labeck
Fortunes of War

Self
Pirate for the Sea

Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Beverly Hills Brats

Warren Anderson
A Prayer for Rain

Captain Williams
The Andersonville Trial

Judge Samuel Salus II
In the King of Prussia

Gil Robbins
The Break

Taxi Driver
Taxi!!

Kilroy
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

Narrator
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Sigurd Moulton
A Stranger in the Kingdom

Ask Me Anything

Homeless Joe
Original Intent

Self
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Alexander William Holmes
The Last Survivors

Narrator (voice)
The Real Thing

Narrator
The Kennedy Detail

Noah Dietrich
Rules Don't Apply

Henry Northcutt
Voyage of Terror

Narrator
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

Self
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

Dr. Austin Raybourne
Lost & Found in Cleveland

Narrator
Enemies of War

The Stranger
Gunfighter

Narrator
Brothers on the Line

Self
Walking After Midnight

Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
Selma

Graytak
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Captain Daniel Richards
Badge of Honor

Narrator
Sharkwise

Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
One of Her Own

Narrator
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican

Self
Pat Neal Is Back

Edward Miles Layton
The Price of a Life

Narrator
Eyewitness DVD: Weather

Narrator (voice)
Unity

Peter Maurin
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

Narrator (voice)
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth

Jules Worthman
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

Frank Kenley
News at Eleven

William F.(Ike) Eisenbraun
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
JFK

Grandfather Alden (voice)
The Boxcar Children

Father Frank
Ninth Street

Tony Parrish
A Prowler in the Heart

Kelly
Hits!

Sarge
The Elevator

President
Medusa's Child

Montserrat

Martin Sheen
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Narrator (voice)
Broken Rainbow

Self (archive footage)
The Nomi Song

Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables

1st Lt. Dobbs
Catch-22

Father Douglas
The Vessel

Narrator
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem

Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
The Water Engine

Narrator (voice)
The Twelve Apostles

Harlan Garrison
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

Presenter
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen

Theodore Olson
8

Arthur Square (voice)
Flatland

Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
Project: ALF

Harold Hohne
Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Narrator
They Killed Sister Dorothy

Luther Sykes
The Legend of Earl Durand

Man in Park
Marked for Murder

Narrator
Amazonia

Narrator
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania

Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Hot Shots! Part Deux

Narrator
Braving Alaska

Narrator (voice)
Braving Alaska

Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars

Matthew Cuthbert
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew

Narrator
Centralia Fire

Oral Roberts
Come Sunday

Jerusalemski sindrom

Father Philan
Choices of the Heart

Self
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

Self
The Making of 'Spawn'

James Alden (voice)
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island

Narrator
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

Narrator (voice)
Bringing Down a Dictator

Frederik
Milost mora

Back to the Lane

Self
Promises to Keep

Deputy Wilson
Crime Club

Self
Absence of Malick

Lyle Mollencamp
Shattered Spirits

Self- Narrator (voice)
White House Revealed

Narrator
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight

Self
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

Doc Hall
12 Mighty Orphans

Ralph
The Devil Has a Name

Self
Making Badlands

Narrator
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

Narrator
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile

Ira Everett
The Darklings

Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marlon Brando, un acteur nommé désir

Self
Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Narrator (voice)
Alive: 20 Years Later

The Judge
Dead Presidents

Self - Actor
Salinger

Self
Notes on an American Film Director at Work

Bench

John Austin
Princess of the Row

Alan (voice)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Narrator
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

J. Edgar Hoover
Judas and the Black Messiah

Self
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture

President Josiah Bartlet
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma

Grifasi
The Time Shifters

Father Andrew Kanvesky
Sacred Cargo

Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
The Commission

Richard Conley
Another Time, Another Place

Hanlon
Monument Ave.

Narrator
The Rites Of Mu

Bluff Jackson
When the Line Goes Through

Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary

Self
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

Self
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous

Self
The Politics of the Dead Zone

Narrator (voice)
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians

Self - Narrator
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War

self
Crossing the Line

Narrator(voice)
Halfway Home

Narrator (voice)
Eyewitness: Monster

Narrator
The Making of Eyewitness

Narrator
Father G and the Homeboys

Narrator (voice)
Hidden in Plain Sight

Narrator
23 Seconds to Eternity

Narrator
Defending Gideon

Self (archive footage)
The Little Pageant That Could

Narrator (voice)
Eyewitness: Shark

Self
Winning New Hampshire
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
264
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-08-03
Place of Birth
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez