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.
265 movies · 85 shows
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025·5.0
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
2024·8.7
The Little Pageant That Could
2024·0.0
23 Seconds to Eternity
2023·7.3
Downwind
2023·6.8
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed
2021·6.0
12 Mighty Orphans
2021·7.2
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021·7.3
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
2020·0.0
Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly's Big Picture
2020·0.0
Princess of the Row
2020·5.9
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020·7.9
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
2020·0.0
The Devil Has a Name
2019·5.3
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
2018·6.2
Come Sunday
2018·5.8
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
2017·10.0
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
2017·6.6
Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
2017·6.3
Dreamland: Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem
2017·6.0
Rules Don't Apply
2016·5.8
The Vessel
2016·5.3
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016·6.6
Back to the Lane
2016·0.0
Anne of Green Gables
2016·7.2
Badge of Honor
2015·4.9
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015·10.0
Unity
2015·7.5
Selma
2014·7.4
A Prayer for Rain
2014·6.3
Trash
2014·7.1
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014·7.2
The Boxcar Children
2014·7.5
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014·7.0
Ask Me Anything
2014·5.6
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014·6.5
The Whale
2013·5.3
Amazonia
2013·6.3
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013·10.0
Jerzy Popieluszko: Messenger of the Truth
2013·9.5
Salinger
2013·6.4
Making Badlands
2013·8.0
Defending Gideon
2013·0.0
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013·6.8
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012·7.3
Death By China
2012·5.7
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012·6.7
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012·6.6
Stella Days
2012·6.4
Brothers on the Line
2012·7.5
8
2012·5.3
The Double
2011·5.8
Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White
2011·0.0
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
2011·5.8
Sharkwise
2011·0.5
Miller's Tale
2011·7.1
Halfway Home
2011·0.0
The Kennedy Detail
2010·6.0
The Way
2010·7.1
A Conversation with Martin Sheen
2010·0.0
Gloves of Stone
2009·4.3
Love Happens
2009·5.8
Imagine That
2009·6.0
Franz Jagerstätter: A Man of Conscience
2009·6.0
Echelon Conspiracy
2009·6.1
White House Revealed
2009·5.3
Man in the Mirror
2008·6.0
Vietnam: American Holocaust
2008·8.8
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008·0.0
Pirate for the Sea
2008·5.0
The End of Poverty?
2008·7.9
They Killed Sister Dorothy
2008·0.0
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008·5.6
Eyewitness DVD: Weather
2007·0.0
Talk to Me
2007·6.8
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007·0.0
Bordertown
2007·6.3
Flatland
2007·5.8
Confessions Of An Innocent Man
2007·6.2
Father G and the Homeboys
2007·0.0
The Departed
2006·8.2
The Politics of the Dead Zone
2006·6.0
Bobby
2006·6.4
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006·7.2
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006·8.5
James Dean: Forever Young
2005·5.9
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004·6.0
Winning New Hampshire
2004·9.0
The Nomi Song
2004·6.4
Jerusalem Syndrome
2004·3.7
Tell Them Who You Are
2004·6.1
The Commission
2003·4.5
Hidden in Plain Sight
2003·7.5
Mercy of the Sea
2003·3.3
Absence of Malick
2003·7.0
Catch Me If You Can
2002·8.0
Straight Up: Helicopters in Action
2002·7.7
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002·7.0
Bringing Down a Dictator
2002·0.0
National Geographic: Inside the Vatican
2001·8.5
Stockpile: The New Nuclear Menace
2001·7.0
Enemies of War
2001·0.0
O
2001·5.9
On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
2000·10.0
Crossing the Line
1999·0.0
The Twelve Apostles
1999·7.5
A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999·3.5
The Time Shifters
1999·5.8
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999·6.2
Forget Me Never
1999·6.1
D.R.E.A.M. Team
1999·5.4
Storm
1999·5.8
Lost & Found
1999·5.0
No Code of Conduct
1999·5.4
Gunfighter
1999·3.8
The Darklings
1999·6.0
Ninth Street
1999·7.5
A Texas Funeral
1999·5.0
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998·6.4
Free Money
1998·5.4
A Letter from Death Row
1998·4.2
Monument Ave.
1998·5.8
Shadrach
1998·6.0
The Elevator
1998·6.0
Voyage of Terror
1998·4.3
Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology
1998·7.7
Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War
1998·9.0
Medusa's Child
1997·5.8
Hostile Waters
1997·6.1
Eyewitness: Monster
1997·0.0
Spawn
1997·5.5
The Making of 'Spawn'
1997·7.7
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997·6.2
An Act of Conscience
1997·7.0
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
1997·7.3
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians
1997·0.0
The War at Home
1996·7.0
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
1996·5.4
Sacred Cargo
1996·6.5
Mexico
1996·5.9
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996·10.0
Project: ALF
1996·6.0
The American President
1995·6.5
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
1995·7.3
Virgin Mary
1995·4.4
The Making of Eyewitness
1995·0.0
Dead Presidents
1995·6.7
Born Wild
1995·5.8
The Break
1995·6.1
Dillinger and Capone
1995·5.2
One Hundred and One Nights
1995·6.1
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
1995·6.7
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994·6.5
Fortunes of War
1994·4.2
Hits!
1994·9.0
Guns of Honor
1994·4.3
Boca
1994·3.6
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994·6.5
Roswell
1994·6.1
Trigger Fast
1994·3.0
One of Her Own
1994·7.0
When the Bough Breaks
1994·5.8
National Geographic: Last Voyage of the Lusitania
1994·0.0
Eyewitness: Dinosaur
1994·6.0
Eyewitness: Shark
1994·0.0
Alive: 20 Years Later
1993·7.7
Gettysburg
1993·7.0
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
1993·5.0
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993·6.5
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993·5.5
Hear No Evil
1993·4.6
Grey Knight
1993·5.1
The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream
1993·0.0
Braving Alaska
1993·10.0
The Water Engine
1992·5.8
Original Intent
1992·4.8
JFK
1991·7.6
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991·7.9
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991·7.1
The Maid
1991·6.1
The Rites Of Mu
1991·0.0
Touch and Die
1991·5.0
Cadence
1990·6.7
Another Time, Another Place
1989·9.5
Beverly Hills Brats
1989·5.0
Cold Front
1989·5.1
Beyond the Stars
1989·5.1
Nightbreaker
1989·6.7
Marked for Murder
1989·7.5
Judgment in Berlin
1988·5.5
Da
1988·6.9
Walking After Midnight
1988·9.0
Promises to Keep
1988·6.3
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987·6.4
Wall Street
1987·7.2
Siesta
1987·5.3
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987·7.1
The Believers
1987·5.9
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987·7.0
A State of Emergency
1986·3.5
Secrets of the Titanic
1986·7.0
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986·8.0
News at Eleven
1986·8.0
Shattered Spirits
1986·5.8
Out of the Darkness
1985·6.3
Broken Rainbow
1985·5.8
The Fourth Wise Man
1985·7.0
Native Sons: Palestinians In Exile
1985·0.0
In the Name of the People
1985·6.8
Consenting Adult
1985·6.0
The Real Thing
1985·0.0
The Guardian
1984·5.5
Firestarter
1984·6.3
Choices of the Heart
1983·6.2
The Dead Zone
1983·7.0
Man, Woman and Child
1983·5.7
In the King of Prussia
1983·6.7
No Place to Hide
1983·9.0
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983·0.0
That Championship Season
1982·5.3
Gandhi
1982·7.6
Enigma
1982·5.6
Centralia Fire
1982·0.0
In the Custody of Strangers
1982·6.4
I Love Liberty
1982·0.0
Loophole
1981·6.3
The Final Countdown
1980·6.7
Eagle's Wing
1979·5.3
Apocalypse Now
1979·8.3
Taxi!!
1978·7.5
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977·8.0
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976·7.0
The Cassandra Crossing
1976·6.3
Sweet Hostage
1975·5.8
The Last Survivors
1975·4.6
The Missiles of October
1974·7.5
The Legend of Earl Durand
1974·6.5
The California Kid
1974·6.3
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1974·5.0
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974·7.4
Badlands
1974·7.5
Message to My Daughter
1973·8.0
The Catholics
1973·5.8
Letters from Three Lovers
1973·7.5
A Prowler in the Heart
1973·0.0
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
1973·6.3
Crime Club
1973·10.0
Pursuit
1972·5.4
Rage
1972·6.7
That Certain Summer
1972·6.6
When the Line Goes Through
1972·5.0
Pickup on 101
1972·4.4
No Drums, No Bugles
1972·6.5
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972·8.0
Mongo's Back in Town
1971·6.1
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
1971·0.0
Montserrat
1971·10.0
Catch-22
1970·6.7
The Andersonville Trial
1970·6.3
Then Came Bronson
1969·4.9
The Subject Was Roses
1968·6.1
Pat Neal Is Back
1968·7.0
The Incident
1967·7.4
The Price of a Life
1967·0.0
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966·8.0