Martin Sheen

Acting · Born 1940-08-03 in Dayton, Ohio, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Apocalypse Now as Captain Benjamin Willard
• The Departed as Queenan
• Catch Me If You Can as Roger Strong
• Gandhi as Vince Walker
• Badlands as Kit Carruthers
• Gettysburg as Gen. Robert E. Lee
• Wall Street as Carl Fox
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
• The Dead Zone as Greg Stillson
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Frank Hallet

TV

• Columbo as Karl Lessing
• The Simpsons as Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
• The Outer Limits as Pvt. Arthur Dix
• The West Wing as Josiah Bartlet
• Grace and Frankie as Robert Hanson
• Tales from the Crypt as Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self - Guest
• The Rookies