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Martin Sheen

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Recent Role:
Self on Who Do You Think You Are?
Gender:
Male
Born:
8-3-1940
Birthplace:
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Birth Name:
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez
His mother, Mary Ann Phelan, was an Irish immigrant, and his father, Francisco Estevez, was a Spaniard who came to the U.S. by way of Cuba. They met at citizenship school in Dayton.

Martin was born Ramon Estévez in Dayton, Ohio in 1940 to an Irish mother (Mary Ann Phelan) and a Spanish father (Francisco Estévez), he was the seventh of ten children.

He grew up in Bermuda but was the only one of the brood not to be born there. He was keen to be an actor even though his father disapproved, and claims he deliberately failed the entrance exam for the University of



More Dayton so that he could pursue an acting career.

His first major role as on Broadway in The Subject was Roses in 1965, a role he recreated in the 1968 film adaption.

He began workign in movies, from Catch-22 to Badlands and Apocalypse Now.

His TV career was cemented when he played the President in The West Wing, a role that brought many award nominations.

A man of convictions, Martin has been arrested over 70 times for his protests against nuclear weapons, for workers rights among many others.

He married Janet Templeton (1961) and had 3 sons and 1 daughter: Emilio (b. 1962), Ramon (b. 1963), Charles (b. Carlos in 1965) and Renée (b. in 1967). He has three grandchildren (Taylor, Paloma and Cassandra).

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    Martin Sheen is a very good actor. He played all kind of characters in a lot of different movies. I liked him very much as the president in the tv series The West Wing. He also played a very convincing role as the presidents assistent and best friend in The American President. In several other movies he played political figures. In Catch Me If You Can he had a nice part as Roger Strong. Both his sons, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez joined him in several movies. Estevez is Martin Sheens' birth name. Both Martin and his son Charlie use the name Sheen, Emilio still goes by the name Estevez.

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    Martin Sheen is a true actor. You really believe that he got into acting because he loves it for what it is. You'll never see him in any tabloids and you won't hear any gossip about him. In his roles, you sense more realism than many other actor's who are considered more talented than he. Of all of his roles in all of his movies, my favorite has to be "Apocalypse Now."

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