Martin Sheen was born on August 3, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is a Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish American actor.

He started on stage in New York, earning a Tony nomination for his performance in The Subject Was Roses (1964), a role he repeated in the 1968 film version. A young intense leading man, he played a disaffected killer in 1973's Badlands and starred in the famously troubled production of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979).

Some of his best known work has been on television: he starred in The Execution of Private Slovik (1974), he won an Emmy for TV's The Long Road Home (1981) and he portrayed both Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy.

Also in 2006, Sheen appeared in the Academy Award-winning film The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg. Also that year, he had a role in his son Emilio Estevez’s film about the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Bobby.

Sheen is the father of actors Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Renee Estevez and Ramon Estevez.

Filmography

• "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (1 episode, 2007)
• Talk to Me (2007)
• Flatland: The Movie (2007)
• The Departed (2006)
• Bobby (2006)
• "The West Wing" (148 episodes, 1999-2006)
• Bordertown (2006)
• "Two and a Half Men" (1 episode, 2005)
• Jerusalemski sindrom (2004)
• The Commission (2003)
• Milost mora (2003)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• "Spin City" (2 episodes, 2002)
• We the People (2002)
• O (2001)
• The Apostle Paul: The Man Who Turned the World Upside Down. (2001)
• The Time Shifters (1999)
• Forget Me Never (1999)
• D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999)
• A Texas Funeral (1999)
• "Chicken Soup for the Soul" (1999)
• Storm (1999)
• "Total Recall 2070" (1 episode, 1999)
• Lost & Found (1999)
• The Darklings (1999)
• Ninth Street (1999)
• No Code of Conduct (1998)
• Free Money (1998)
• A Letter from Death Row (1998)
• Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
• Voyage of Terror (1998)
• Shadrach (1998)
• Snitch (1998)
• Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
• Gunfighter (1998)
• "Stories from My Childhood" (1998)
• Family Attraction (1998)
• "Phenomenon: The Lost Archives" (1 episode 1998)
• Medusa's Child (1997)
• "The Simpsons" (1 episode, 1997)
• Spawn (1997)
• Hostile Waters (1997)
• Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
• "Gun" (1 episode, 1997)
• Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
• The War at Home (1996)
• Project: ALF (1996)
• Crystal Cave (1996)
• Alchemy (1996)
• The Elevator (1996)
• The American President (1995)
• Gospa (1995)
• Dead Presidents (1995)
• The Break (1995)
• Sacred Cargo (1995)
• Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys (1995)
• Dillinger and Capone (1995)
• Present Tense, Past Perfect (1995)
• Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (1994)
• Boca (1994)
• Roswell (1994)
• One of Her Own (1994)
• Trigger Fast (1994)
• Guns of Honor (1994)
• Hits! (1994)
• A Matter of Justice (1993)
• "Tales from the Crypt" (1 episode, 1993)
• Gettysburg (1993)
• "Murphy Brown" (1 episode, 1993)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• Braving Alaska (1993)
• Hear No Evil (1993)
• "Queen" (1993)
• The Killing Box (1993)
• When the Bough Breaks (1993)
• Fortunes of War (1993)
• The Water Engine (1992)
• The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story (1992)
• Running Wild (1992)
• Original Intent (1992)
• JFK (1991)
• Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991)
• The Maid (1991)
• Touch and Die (1991)
• Pomozite Hrvatskoj (1991)
• Jugoslavenska Armija pomaze srpski terorizam (1991)
• Srpski vodovi smrti (1991)
• "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" (1990)
• Cadence (1990)
• Beyond the Stars (1989)
• Nightbreaker (1989)
• Beverly Hills Brats (1989)
• Marked for Murder (1989)
• Cold Front (1989)
• Judgment in Berlin (1988)
• Da (1988)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Siesta (1987)
• The Believers (1987)
• Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)
• "CBS Schoolbreak Special" (1 episode, 1987)
• Apocalypse Pooh (1987)
• A State of Emergency (1986)
• Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
• News at Eleven (1986)
• Shattered Spirits (1986)
• "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1 episode, 1985)
• Out of the Darkness (1985)
• The Fourth Wise Man (1985)
• "The Atlanta Child Murders" (1985)
• Consenting Adult (1985)
• The Guardian (1984)
• Firestarter (1984)
• Choices of the Heart (1983)
• "Kennedy" (1983)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• Man, Woman and Child (1983)
• In the King of Prussia (1983)
• Enigma (1983)
• That Championship Season (1982)
• Gandhi (1982)
• In the Custody of Strangers (1982)
• No Place to Hide (1982)
• Loophole (1981)
• "Insight" (3 episodes, 1974-1980)
• The Final Countdown (1980)
• Eagle's Wing (1979)
• "Blind Ambition" (1979)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Taxi!!! (1978)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• Sweet Hostage (1975)
• The Last Survivors (1975)
• The Missiles of October (1974)
• The Legend of Earl Durand (1974)
• The California Kid (1974)
• The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
• The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
• Message to My Daughter (1973)
• Catholics (1973)
• "Love Story" (1 episode, 1973)
• Badlands (1973)
• "Medical Center" (2 episodes, 1970-1973)
• "Dr. Simon Locke" (1 episode, 1973)
• "Toma" (1 episode, 1973)
• Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
• Columbo: Lovely But Lethal (1973)
• "The Streets of San Francisco" (1 episode, 1973)
• "Cannon" (3 episodes, 1972-1973)
• "Love, American Style" (1 episode, 1973)
• "Harry O" (1 episode, 1973)
• Crime Club (1973)
• "The Rookies" (1 episode, 1973)
• "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law" (1 episode, 1973)
• "The F.B.I." (4 episodes, 1968-1973)
• "Ghost Story" (1 episode, 1973)
• "Wide World Mystery" (1 episode, 1973)
• When the Line Goes Through (1973)
• Pursuit (1972)
• Rage (1972)
• That Certain Summer (1972)
• "Mannix" (1 episode, 1972)
• Pickup on 101 (1972)
• No Drums, No Bugles (1972)
• Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
• Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
• Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971)
• "Cade's County" (1 episode, 1971)
• "Sarge" (1 episode, 1971)
• "Dan August" (1 episode, 1971)
• "The Interns" (1 episode, 1971)
• "The Young Lawyers" (1 episode, 1970)
• "Hawaii Five-O" (2 episodes, 1970)
• "Matt Lincoln" (1 episode, 1970)
• "Ironside" (1 episode, 1970)
• Catch-22 (1970)
• The Andersonville Trial (1970)
• "The Mod Squad" (1 episode, 1970)
• "Bracken's World" (1 episode, 1970)
• "Then Came Bronson" (1 episode, 1969)
• "Lancer" (1 episode, 1969)
• "Mission: Impossible" (1 episode, 1969)
• "N.Y.P.D." (1 episode, 1968)
• The Subject Was Roses (1968)
• "The Edge of Night" (1956)
• The Incident (1967)
• "The Catholic Hour" (3 episodes, 1967)
• "Flipper" (1 episode, 1967)
• Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
• "Hawk" (1 episode, 1966)
• "As the World Turns" (1956)
• "The Trials of O'Brien (1 episode, 1965)
• "For the People" (1 episode, 1965)
• "The Defenders" (4 episodes, 1961-1964)
• "The Nurses" (2 episodes, 1964)
• "The Nurses" (3 episodes, 1963-1964)
• "My Three Sons" (1 episode, 1964)
• "The Outer Limits" (1 episode, 1963)
• "Arrest and Trial" (1 episode, 1963)
• "East Side/West Side" (1 episode, 1963)
• "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1 episode, 1963)
• "The United States Steel Hour" (3 episodes, 1962-1963)
• "Naked City" (3 episodes, 1962)
• "Route 66" (1 episode, 1961)

Awards

• National Board of Review Best Acting by an Ensemble "The Departed" 2006
• ALMA Award Outstanding Actor in a TV Series "The West Wing" 2001
• TV Guide Award Actor of the Year in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2001
• Golden Globe Best Actor in a Television Series (Drama) "The West Wing" 2000
• Golden Satellite Best Ensemble Television Cast Performance "The West Wing" 2000
• The Actor Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2000 - 1
• The Actor Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2000 - 1
• TV Guide Award Favorite Actor in a New Series "The West Wing" 2000
• Golden Satellite Best Actor in a Television Series (Drama) "The West Wing" 1999
• Emmy Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series "Murphy Brown" 1993 - 94
• Daytime Emmy Outstanding Directing in Children's Programming "Babies Having Babies" 1985 - 86
• Daytime Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming "Insight" 1980 - 81