Martin Sheen

Acting

Born 1940-08-03 Dayton, Ohio, USA 355 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 3 Thomas Merton Award 2 Order of Danica Hrvatska 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Laetare Medal 1

Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

1994 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Won Murphy Brown

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

2001 Best Actor – Television Series Drama Won The West Wing

Screen Actors Guild Awards 3 won · 1 nominated

2007 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated The Departed, Bobby
2002 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Won The West Wing
2001 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Won The West Wing
2001 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Won The West Wing

Tony Awards 1 nominated

1965 Best Featured Actor in a Play Nominated

Thomas Merton Award 2 won

2013 Thomas Merton Award Won
2012 Thomas Merton Award Won

Order of Danica Hrvatska 1 won

— Order of Danica Hrvatska Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Laetare Medal 1 won

2008 Laetare Medal Won

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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.