Martin Sheen
Martin Estévez, known as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses and Badlands. He later achieved wide recognition for his role as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb.
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Martin Estévez, known as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses and Badlands. He later achieved wide recognition for his role as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb. 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. He has directed one film, Cadence, in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. He was born and raised in the United States by immigrant parents, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. His father was a factory workermachinery inspector at the National Cash Register Company. His mother was from Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland, and his father was born in Salceda de Caselas, Galicia, Spain. Sheen’s left arm was crushed by forceps, giving him limited lateral movement of that arm, which is three inches shorter than his right. He contracted polio as a child and had to remain bedridden for a year. His doctor’s treatment using Sister Kenny’s method helped him regain use of his legs. When he was eleven years old, Sheen’s mother died, and the children faced the possibility of living in an orphanage or foster homes.
The family was able to remain together with the assistance of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Dayton. He graduated from Chaminade High School. At 14 years old he organized a strike of golf caddies while working at a private golf club in Dayton, Ohio. He borrowed money from a Catholic priest and moved to New York City in his early twenties, hoping to make it as an actor. It was in New York that he met Catholic activist Dorothy Day. He would one day go on to play Peter Maurin, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story. He deliberately failed the entrance examination for the University of Dayton so he could pursue the examination for acting. In a 2003 Inside the Actors Studio interview, Sheen explained, Whenever I would call for an appointment, I would give my name, whether it was a job or an apartment, and I would say Martin Sheen. It never officially changed Martin Sheen’s name, so I invented Martin Evez. It still officially remains Martin Estevez. Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josias Bartlet. He earned two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics. He also has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytona Emmy awards.
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