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 US President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing 19992006 and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie 20152022 In film Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands Sheens 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 SpiderMan 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Sheen licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors can be found on Wikipedia
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