Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an Hispanic American actor. Sheen was born Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez in Dayton, Ohio. He lived on Brown Street in the South Park neighborhood, and was one of 10 siblings (9 boys and one girl). He attended Chaminade High School. A devout Roman Catholic, born to a Spanish-born father, Francisco Estevez, and an Irish mother, Marry Anne Phelan. Sheen adopted his stage name in honor of Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen. Additionally he adopted the name Sheen due to his desire to hide his Hispanic heritage and appear fully white. His mother, Mary Ann Phelan from County Galway, fled Ireland during the Anglo-Irish War due to her IRA connections, according to a biography of Sheen.

Filmography

• The Incident (1967)
• The Subject Was Roses (1968)
• Catch-22 (1970)
• No Drums, No Bugles (1972)
• Pickup on 101 (1972)
• Rage (1972)
• When the Line Goes Through (1973)
• ' (1973)
• Badlands (1973)
• The Legend of Earl Durand (1974)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Eagle's Wing (1979)
• The Final Countdown (1980)
• Loophole (1981)
• No Place to Hide (1982)
• In the King of Prussia (1982)
• Gandhi (1982)
• That Championship Season (1982)
• Enigma (1983)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• Man, Woman and Child (1983)
• Firestarter (1984)
• A State of Emergency (1986)
• The Believers (1987)
• Siesta (1987)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Da (1988)
• Judgment in Berlin (1988)
• Cold Front (1989)
• Beverly Hills Brats (1989)
• Beyond the Stars (1989)
• Cadence (1990)
• Touch and Die (1991)
• The Maid (1991)
• Running Wild (1992)
• When the Bough Breaks (1993)
• The Killing Box (1993)
• Fortunes of War (1993)
• Hear No Evil (1993)
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Trigger Fast (1994)
• Hits! (1994)
• Boca (1994)
• Sacred Cargo (1995)
• Dillinger and Capone (1995)
• Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys (1995)
• The Break (1995)
• Gospa (1995)
• The American President (1995)
• The Elevator (1996)
• The War at Home (1996)
• ' (1996)
• Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
• Spawn (1997)
• Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
• Gunfighter (1998)
• Family Attraction (1998)
• Snitch (1998)
• A Letter From Death Row (1998)
• Free Money (1998)
• No Code of Conduct (1998)
• Ninth Street (1999)
• Lost & Found (1999)
• Storm (1999)
• A Texas Funeral (1999)
• O (2001)
• We The People (2002)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• The Commission (2003)
• The Departed (2006)
• The West Wing (1999-Present)