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Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. Moving flawlessly between artistic mediums, Sheen's acting range is striking.
Sheen was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estevez in Dayton, Ohio, to Mary-Ann (Phelan), an Irish immigrant (from Borrisokane, County Tipperary), and Francisco Estevez, a Spanish-born factory worker and machinery inspector (from Parderrubias, Galicia). On the big screen, Sheen has appeared in more than 65 feature films including a star turn as Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's landmark film Apocalypse Now (), which brought Sheen worldwide recognition. The film also starred Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper and Robert Duvall. Other notable credits include Wall Street () (with son Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas), Academy Award-winning film Gandhi () (with Sir Ben Kingsley), Catch Me If You Can () (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks), The American Presid
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Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born 3 August), more famous under his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American actor and social activist. He is the father of actors Emilio Estevez, Ramón Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renée Estevez.
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- I love being Spanish as much as I love being Irish, and I really love being Irish.
- My only regret about having four children is that I didn't have four more.
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[edit]- "Martin Sheen Interview" by David Kupfer in Progressive magazine (July )
- I learned I had to stand for something so I could stand to be me.
- I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.
- On his activism in social justice and peace issues.
- It is one of the only tools that is available to
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Martin Sheen
American actor (born )
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, ), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. In a career spanning six decades he has received numerous accolades including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Sheen rose to prominence in his breakthrough roles in Terrence Malick's crime drama Badlands () and Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now (). Sheen is also known for such notable films as The Subject Was Roses (), Catch (), The California Kid (), Gandhi (), Wall Street (), Gettysburg (), The American President (), Catch Me If You Can (), The Departed, Bobby (both ), and Judas and the Black Messiah (). He also portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man ().
He is also known for portraying Robert F. Kennedy in The Missiles of October (), Eddie Slovik in The Execution of Private Slovik (), John Dean in Blind Ambition (), and J