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Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands (1973), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Wall Street (1987), and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.

This book is your ultimate resource for Martin Sheen. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Martin Sheen, The Incident (1967 film), The Subject Was Roses, Catch-22 (film), Rage (1972 film), That Certain Summer, Badlands (film), The California Kid, The Missiles of October, The Execution of Private Slovik, The Cassandra Crossing, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Apocalypse Now, Eagle's Wing, The Final Countdown (film), Loophole (1981 film), Gandhi (film), That Championship Season (1982 film), In the Custody of Strangers, Enigma (1983 film), Man, Woman and Child, The Dead Zone (film), Firestarter (film), Shattered Spirits, The Believers, Siesta (film), Wall Street (1987 film), Da (film), Judgment in Berlin, Beverly Hills Brats, Beyond the Stars, Cadence (film), The Maid (1991 film), JFK (film), Running Wild (1992 film), When the Bough Breaks (1993 film), Ghost Brigade, Hear No Evil (film), Hot Shots! Part Deux, Gettysburg (1993 film), The American President, A Hundred and One Nights, Dead Presidents, Gospa, The War at Home (film), Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, Project ALF, An Act of Conscience, Spawn (film), Monument Ave., Shadrach (film), A Letter from Death Row (film), Free Money (film), No Code of Conduct, The Thin Red Line (1998 film), Ninth Street, Lost & Found (1999 film), O (film), Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, Bobby (2006 film), Talk to Me (2007 film), Bordertown (2006 film), Flatland: The Movie, A Single Woman (film), Echelon Conspiracy, Love Happens, Imagine That (film), The Way (film), The Double (film), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film), Bhopal: Prayer for Rain, Route 66 (TV series), Nightmare (1963 The Outer Limits), Columbo, Kennedy (TV miniseries), Murphy Brown, Roswell (film), The Principal and the Pauper, Babylon 5: The River of Souls, The West Wing, Two and a Half Men, The Sunday Night Project.

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Contents

Articles Martin Sheen The Incident (1967 film) The Subject Was Roses Catch-22 (film) Rage (1972 film) That Certain Summer Badlands (film)

The California Kid

The Missiles of October The Execution of Private Slovik The Cassandra Crossing The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Apocalypse Now Eagle's Wing The Final Countdown (film) Loophole (1981 film) Gandhi (film) That Championship Season (1982 film) In the Custody of Strangers Enigma (1983 film) Man, Woman and Child The Dead Zone (film) Firestarter (film) Shattered Spirits The Believers Siesta (film) Wall Street (1987 film) Da (film) Judgment in Berlin Beverly Hills Brats Beyond the Stars Cadence (film) The Maid (1991 film) JFK (film)

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Running Wild (1992 film) When the Bough Breaks (1993 film) Ghost Brigade Hear No Evil (film) Hot Shots! Part Deux Gettysburg (1993 film) The American President A Hundred and One Nights Dead Presidents Gospa The War at Home (film) Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story Project ALF An Act of Conscience Spawn (film) Monument Ave. Shadrach (film) A Letter from Death Row (film) Free Money (film) No Code of Conduct The Thin Red Line (1998 film) Ninth Street Lost & Found (1999 film) O (film) Catch Me If You Can The Departed

Bobby (2006 film) Talk to Me (2007 film) Bordertown (2006 film) Flatland: The Movie A Single Woman (film) Echelon Conspiracy Love Happens Imagine That (film) The Way (film) The Double (film) The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) Bhopal: Prayer for Rain

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Route 66 (TV series) Nightmare (1963 The Outer Limits) Columbo Kennedy (TV miniseries) Murphy Brown Roswell (film) The Principal and the Pauper Babylon 5: The River of Souls The West Wing Two and a Half Men The Sunday Night Project

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Martin Sheen in 2008

RamnAntonioGerardEstavez August 3, 1940 Dayton, Ohio, United States

Actor, Activist

1961–present

Janet Templeton (1961–present)

Emilio,Ramon,Carlos,Renae

Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez(born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage nameMartin Sheen,is an American film actor best known for his performances in the filmsBadlands(1973),Apocalypse Now(1979) and Wall Street(1987), and in the television seriesThe West Wingfrom 1999 to 2006. He is considered one of the best actors never to be nominated for an Academy Award despite his acclaimed [1] performances. In film he has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastibn International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers inBadlands.His portrayal of Capt. Willard inApocalypse Nowearned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet inThe West Wing,and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcomMurphy Brown. Born and raised in the United States from immigrant parents, a Galician father, Francisco Estavez from Salceda de Caselas in Galicia (Spain) and a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County [2] Tipperary. He adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of actors Emilio Estevez, Ramon Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renae Estevez. His younger brother Joe Estevez is also an actor.

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Although known as an actor, he has also directed one film,Cadence(1990), appearing alongside sons Charlie and Ramon. He has also narrated, produced and directed in documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s. In addition to film and television, Sheen has also become notable for his activism in liberal politics. He [3] [4] [5] declined to run for President of Ireland in 2011, a role he qualified for by virtue of his Irish mother.

Early life Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Spaniard Francisco Estavez (1898–1974) and his Irish wife, Mary-Ann [6] Phelan (1903–1951). During birth, Sheen's left arm was crushed by forceps, giving him limited lateral movement [7] of his left arm, which is three inches shorter than his right. Francisco Estavez was a factory worker/machinery inspector at the National Cash Register Company. Both of Sheen's parents were immigrants, his father from [8] [9] Parderrubias, Galicia, Spain and his mother from Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland. After moving to [10] Dayton in the 1930s, Estavez worked for the National Cash Register Company. Martin Sheen grew up on Brown [9] Street in the South Park neighborhood, one of 10 children (nine boys and a girl). Due to his father's work, Sheen [11] also spent part of his childhood in Bermuda, where the family lived on St. John's Road, Pembroke. He graduated [9] [12] from Chaminade High School (now Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School) and was raised Catholic. [13] Sheen was the first of the children born in the United States. At age 14, he organized a strike of golf caddies while working at a private golf club in Dayton, Ohio. He complained about the golfers: "They often used obscene language in front of us.c.c.c. we were little boys and they were abusive .c.c. anti-Semitic .c.c. And they, for the most [14] part, were upstanding members of the community." Sheen was drawn to acting at a young age, but his father disapproved of his interest in the field. Despite his father's opposition, Sheen borrowed money from a Catholic priest and moved to New York City in his early 20s, hoping to [10] make it as an actor. It was there that he met the legendary Catholic activist Dorothy Day. Working with her [9] [15] Catholic Worker Movement, he began his commitment to social justice, and would one day go on to play Peter Maurin, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story. Sheen [16] deliberately failed the entrance exam for the University of Dayton so that he could pursue his acting career. He adopted his stage name, Martin Sheen, from a combination of the CBS casting director, Robert Dale Martin, who [17] gave him his first big break, and the televangelist archbishop, Fulton J. Sheen. In a 2003 Inside the Actors Studio interview, Sheen explained, "Whenever I would call for an appointment, whether it was a job or an apartment, and I would give my name, there was always that hesitation and when I'd get there, it was always gone. So I thought, I got enough problems trying to get an acting job, so I invented Martin Sheen. It's still Estevez officially. I never changed it officially. I never will. It's on my driver's license and passport and everything. I started using Sheen, I thought I'd give it a try, and before I knew it, I started making a living with it and then it was too late. In fact, one of my great [9] [10] [18] regrets is that I didn't keep my name as it was given to me. I knew it bothered my dad."

Career [9] Sheen has said he was greatly influenced by the actor James Dean. He developed a theatre company with other actors in hopes that a production would earn him recognition. In 1963, he made an appearance inNightmare, an episode of the television science fiction seriesThe Outer Limits. The following year, he starred in the Broadway playThe Subject Was Roses, reprising his role in the 1968 film of the same name. In 1969Live Bait(Mission: Impossible) third season of the TV series, Sheen played Albert, assistant to the colonel interrogating an American agent that IM was tasked to free. He then

Sheen at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

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played Dobbs in the film adaptation ofCatch-22. Sheen was then a co-star in the controversial Emmy Award-winning 1972 television movieThat Certain Summer, said to be the first television movie in America to portray homosexuality in a sympathetic light. His next important feature film role was in 1973, when he starred with [9] [19] Sissy Spacek in the crime dramaBadlands, which he has said is his best film. Also in 1973, Sheen appeared opposite David Janssen in "Such Dust As Dreams Are Made On", which was the first pilot for Harry O. In 1974, Sheen portrayed a hot rod driver in the television movieThe California Kid, and that same year received an [20] Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a television drama for his portrayal of Pvt. Eddie Slovik in the [9] television filmThe Execution of Private Slovikon an incident that occurred during World War II, the film. Based told the story of the only U.S. soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Sheen's performance ultimately led to Francis Ford Coppola choosing him for a starring role in 1979'sApocalypse Now, a film that gained him wide recognition. Filming in the Philippine jungle, in the typhoon season of 1976, Sheen [9] admitted he was not in the greatest shape and was drinking heavily. For the film’s legendary opening sequence in a [21] Saigon hotel room Sheen didn’t have to act so much since it was his 36th birthday, and he was very drunk. After [9] 12 months, Sheen reached breaking point, suffering a minor heart attack and he had to crawl out to a road for help. After his heart attack, his younger brother Joe Estevez stood in for him in a number of long shots and in some of the [22] [21] voice-overs. Sheen was able to resume filming a few weeks later. Sheen has played U.S. President John F. Kennedy (in the miniseries Kennedy—The Presidential Years), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the television specialThe Missiles of October,White House Chief of Staff A.J. McInnerney inThe American President,sinister future president Greg Stillson inThe Dead Zone,the President in the two-part TV movie,Medusa's Child,and fictional Democratic president Josiah "Jed" Bartlet in the acclaimed television drama,The West [9] Wing.

As of November 4, 2010, it has been confirmed that he had been cast as Uncle Ben in Sony's 2012 reboot of the Spider-Man series, directed by [23] Marc Webb. Sheen has performed voice-over work as the narrator for theEyewitness series and as the "real" Seymour Skinner in the controversial episode of The Simpsonstitled "The Principal and the Pauper." In addition, he played the role of the Illusive Man in the highly acclaimed RPGMass Effect 2.

Sheen in Annapolis, May 10, 2004

Sheen recently travelled to Mexico City to star inChamacowith Kirk Harris, Alex Perea, Gustavo Sanchez Parra and Michael Madsen. His next project will beStella Days,which he is filming during November in Tipperary, [24] Ireland, near the birthplace of his mother. Thaddeus O'Sullivan is directing and Irish actor Stephen Rea also stars. Martin Sheen and son Ramon Estevez combined both their real and stage names to create the Warner Bros.-affiliated company, Estevez Sheen Productions. The company’s latest film isThe Way,written and directed by his son Emilio Estevez who also stars in the film as Martin’s on-screen son, who dies while hiking the Camino de Santiago. His daughter, Renae, also has a part in the film. Driven by sadness, Martin’s character, an American doctor, leaves his Californian life and embarks on the 800-km pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to Spain’s Santiago de Compostela [18] himself, with his son’s ashes. It is set to be released in theaters on Easter 2011. Martin will appear in a new Irish Film entitledStella Daysdirected by Irish Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan and stars IFTA award winning actress Amy Huberman. The film sees Martin Sheen play parish priest, Daniel Barry, whose love for the cinema leads him on a path to help set up a local cinema in the town. Daniel comes up against opposition from doubtful local parishioners who question his faith and the Bishop Hegarty, played by Tom Hickey, who is more

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[24] [25] interested in raising funds for a new church.

Political activism

Although he did not attend college, Sheen credited the Marianists at University of Dayton as a major influence on his public activism. Sheen is known for his robust support of liberal political causes, such as opposition to United States military actions and a toxic-waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. Sheen has resisted calls to run for office, saying: "There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House .c.c. I'm an actor. This is what I do [26] for a living." Sheen is an honorary trustee of the Dayton International Peace Museum.

Martin Sheen at an anti-war protest in October 2007.

He supported the 1965 farm worker movement with Cesar Chavez in [27] Delano, California. He is a proponent of the Consistent life ethic, which advocates against abortion, capital [28] [29] punishment and war. He also supports the Democrats for Life of America's Pregnant Women Support Act. In 2004 along with Rob Reiner, Sheen campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and later campaigned for nominee John Kerry.

On May 16, 1995, Martin Sheen and Paul Watson from the non-profit environmental organization, Sea Shepherd, were confronted by a number of Canadian sealers in a hotel on Magdalen Islands over Sea Shepherd's history of attacks on sealing and whaling ships. Sheen negotiated with the sealers while Watson was escorted to the airport by [30] police. In early 2003 Sheen signed the "Not in My Name" declaration opposing the invasion of Iraq (along with prominent figures such as Noam Chomsky and Susan Sarandon); the declaration appeared in the magazineThe Nation.On August 28, 2005, he visited anti-Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey. He prayed with her and spoke to her supporters. He began his remarks by stating, "At least you've got the acting president of the United [31] States," referring to his role as fictional president Josiah Bartlet onThe West Wing.Cindy Sheehan had been [32] demanding a second meeting with the President, George W. Bush. Sheen endorsed marches and walkouts called by the civil rights group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) to force the state of California to honor the Cesar Chavez holiday. On the day of the protests (March 30) thousands of students, primarily Latino from California and elsewhere, walked out of school in support of the demand. Sheen also [33] [34] stated that he participated in the large-scale immigration marches in Los Angeles in 2006 and 2007. On April 10, 2006, theNew York Timesreported that members of the Democratic Party in Ohio had contacted Sheen, attempting to persuade him to run for the United States Senate in Ohio. Sheen declined the offer, stating, "I'm just [35] not qualified. You're mistaking celebrity for credibility." On November 26, 2006, the Sunday Times in the Republic of Ireland, where Sheen was then living due to his enrolment in NUI Galway, reported on his speaking out against mushroom farmers exploiting foreign workers by paying them as little as€2.50 an hour in a country where the minimum wage was€7.65. [36] His latest activism includes attendances at meetings of the environmentalist group Earth First! and a speaking [37] appearance at youth activism event We Day Sheen has also endorsed and supported Help Darfur Now, a student-run organization to help aid victims of the genocide in Darfur, the western region in Sudan. He also appears [38] in the recent anti-fur documentary "Skin Trade." Sheen has appeared in television and radio ads urging Washington State residents to vote no on Initiative 1000, a [39] proposed assisted suicide law before voters in the 2008 election. Sheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and helped [40] raise funds for his campaign. After Richardson dropped out of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two [35] interview that he was supporting Barack Obama.

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Personal life

Family

Sheen married art student Janet Templeton on December 23, 1961, and they have four children, three sons and a daughter, all of whom are actors: Emilio, Ram n, Carlos, and Renae. All but one decided to keep their own names when they began acting - Carlos made the decision to [9] use his father's stage name, and is known as Charlie Sheen.

His son, Charlie Sheen, also starred in a film about Vietnam,Platoon. Charlie Sheen once stated that he wanted to star in a film similar to one his father was in because he wanted to know what it feels like. They jointly parodied their respective previous roles in the 1993 movieHot Shots Part Deux: their river patrol boats passed each other, at which point they both shouted, "I loved you inWall Street!", a film they both starred in as father and son in 1987.

Sheen (right) with son Emilio Estevez in February 2011

He has played the father of sons Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen in various projects: he played Emilio's father inThe War at Home,In the Custody of StrangersandThe Way,and Charlie's father inWall Street, No Code of Conductand two episodes ofSpin City.He also appeared as a guest star in one episode ofTwo and a Half Menplaying the father of Charlie's neighbor Rose (Melanie Lynskey), and another as guest star Denise Richards' father; at the time that episode aired, Richards was still married to Charlie. Martin also played a "future" version of Charlie in a VISA TV commercial. Martin has played other characters with his sons and his daughter. He starred in the filmBobby,which Charlie Sheen is Martin's youngest son. was directed by Emilio. Estevez also starred in the movie alongside his father. His daughter Renae had a supporting role inThe West Wing,as one of President Josiah Bartlet's (Sheen) secretaries.

Sheen became a grandfather at age 43 when his son, Emilio, had a son named Taylor Levi with his girlfriend, Carey Salley. Sheen has six other grandchildren, Paloma Rae (from Emilio), Cassandra, Sam J, Lola Rose, Bob and Max [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] (from Charlie). [10] He celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary in late 2011.

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Alcohol problems [49] Sheen has struggled with alcoholism but has been sober since the mid-1980s.

Academic pursuits After the end of filming ofThe West Wing,Sheen announced plans to further his education: "My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway, Ireland, where my late mother came from and where I'm also [50] a citizen." Speaking after an honorary arts doctorate was conferred on him by the National University of Ireland, Sheen joked that he would be the "oldest undergraduate" at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, when he started his full-time studies there in the autumn of 2006. Although expressing concern that he might be a "distraction" to other students at NUIG, he attended lectures like everyone else. Speaking the week after filming his last episode ofThe West Wing,he said, "I'm very serious about it." He once said, "I never went to college when I was [51] young and am looking forward to giving it a try .c.c. at age 65!" On September 1, 2006, Sheen was among the first [52] to register as a student at NUI Galway. He left the University after completing a semester. Sheen maintains links with Galway and "heartily" supported Michael D. Higgins in the Irish presidential election, [53] 2011, having become a "dear friend" of Higgins while studying there.

Legal troubles In an Actors Studio interview with James Lipton, Sheen admitted to being arrested 64 times for protests. "I don't look forward to being arrested and I don't go anywhere to get arrested, I really don't. I never know what's gonna happen at the time and sometimes... you have to do it because you cannot not do it and be honest with yourself," Sheen said in the interview. Since then, Sheen has been arrested two more times for protests. On April 1, 2007, Sheen was arrested, with 38 other activists, for trespassing at the Nevada Test Site at a Nevada [54] Desert Experience event protesting the site.

Religion and beliefs Sheen is a devout Roman Catholic, having had his faith restored by a series of meaningful conversations in Paris in [12] [19] [21] 1981 with Terrence Malick, the director of Sheen’s breakthrough film,Badlands(1973). [55] Sheen is pro-life. He discussed his views in a 2011 interview with Raidi Teilifds eireann in which he said his wife was conceived through a rape and he says had her mother aborted her, or dumped her in the Ohio River as she considered, his wife would not exist. He also talked about three of his grandchildren whose parents were unmarried when they were born, saying his sons "were not happy at the time but they came to love these children. We have [56] [57] three grown grandchildren, two of them are married, they’re some of the greatest source of joy in our lives."

Awards & honors In the spring of 1989, Sheen was named honorary mayor of Malibu, California. He promptly marked his appointment with a decree proclaiming the area "a nuclear-free zone, a sanctuary for aliens and the homeless, and a [58] protected environment for all life, wild and tame". Some local citizens were angered by the decree, and the Malibu Chamber of Commerce met in June of that year to consider revoking his title, but voted unanimously to [59] retain him. While Sheen claims he deliberately failed the entrance exam for the University of Dayton so that he could pursue his acting career, he still has an affinity for UD, and is seen drinking from a "Dayton Flyers" coffee mug during several episodes ofThe West Wing.Sheen also developed an ongoing relationship with Wright State University, where he performedLove Lettersas a benefit for scholarships in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, and hosted a trip of donors to the set ofThe West Wingwith the department's chair, W. Stuart McDowell, in September, 2001. The Sheen/Estevez & Augsburger Scholarship Fund has since attracted over $100,000 in scholarships in the