“I would like to hope that if I had been here in Ireland at the time, I would have followed him and I would have been as committed as he was.”
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Martin Sheen
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. His work spans more than six decades of television and film, and his accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Actor Awards. In 1989, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2025, The Independent ranked Sheen as the greatest actor never to have been nominated for an Aca…
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2026· 5 entries
“s IRA past. The father of screen actors Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez said he was also relieved to discover that his mother”
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“It was surprising to me. One time I thought Emilio had come to visit me on the set of a show, but it turned out that he was there because he had a part himself – his first part in a film. But when I saw him acting, I realised how talented he was. I was so relieved because each of my children was an individual talent. They didn”
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“All of his movies had a profound effect on my life, in my work and all of my generation. He transcended cinema acting. It was no longer acting, it was human behavior.”
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Yahoo: Martin Sheen Didn’t Appear in Charlie Sheen Doc Because He Didn’t Want to Be ‘Complicit’ If It Failed
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2025· 4 entries
AOL: Martin Sheen 'Deeply' Regrets Changing His Name for Hollywood Career, 'Begged' Son Emilio Estevez to Keep His
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Yahoo: Martin Sheen blasts Trump as ‘the biggest nothing in the world’ during brutal rant
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IJR: Martin Sheen Calls Trump ‘Biggest Nothing in the World’
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The Independent ranked Sheen as the greatest actor never to have been nominated for an Academy Award
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2023· 3 entries
Loyola Marymount University conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, upon Sheen for symbolizing in an "outstanding" manner a record of "service that contributes to the public good," for his "signifi
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“... I loved the Sacraments – Confession and the Eucharist and the Mass were of utmost importance to me. I reunited with that, and I found myself”
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Sheen said how important is the practice of his Catholic faith in his life: "
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2016· 1 entry
Sheen starred in the film The Vessel, performing his role in both the English- and Spanish-language versions
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2015· 1 entry
Sheen received an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree from the University of Dayton for his lifelong commitment to peace, social justice and human rights exemplifying the Catholic, Marianist university's missions
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2014· 1 entry
Sheen advocated for Amnesty International's campaign Justice for Bhopal
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Thomas Merton Award (2013).
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Martin Sheen to play part in NM drama youth camp
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2012· 6 entries
Awarded Thomas Merton Award (2012).
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The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) completed a merger of equals forming a new union SAG-AFTRA
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“s autobiography, Citizen Lane (2012). He has credited Lane”
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Sheen was a guest on the American version of Who Do You Think You Are
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And it has since raised more than A$250,000 for helping serve Vanuatu's under-resourced health and education systems
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“confirmed my belief that Jon-Adrian Velazquez is an innocent man”
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2011· 2 entries
At Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Sheen met with Jon-Adrian Velazquez, now a legal reform activist who was wrongfully convicted for a 1998 murder of a retired police officer in Harlem
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Was awarded an honorary life membership in the Law Society of University College Dublin
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2010· 2 entries
Sheen filmed Stella Days in County Tipperary, Ireland, near the birthplace of his mother
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The company released The Way, written and directed by Sheen's son Emilio Estevez, who also stars in the film
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2009· 3 entries
While walking the Camino de Santiago while filming the 2010 movie The Way, Sheen met Gary and Elizabeth Jewson, a married couple from Australia who had lost their 18-year-old daughter Melanie in a car accident in 2004
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Sheen travelled to Mexico City to star in Chamaco with Kirk Harris, Alex Perea, Gustavo Sánchez Parra and Michael Madsen
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Sheen stated that he had been arrested 66 times for protesting and acts of civil disobedience
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2008· 2 entries
Won Laetare Medal (2008).
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Was awarded the Laetare Medal, the highest honor bestowed on American Catholics, in May 2008 at the school's commencement
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2007· 1 entry
Sheen was arrested, with 38 other activists, for trespassing at the Nevada Test Site at a Nevada Desert Experience event protesting against the site
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2006· 4 entries
Sheen was among the first to register as a student at NUI Galway, where he took classes in English literature, philosophy, and oceanography
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To persuade him to run for the United States Senate
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In 2006, when Sheen was living in Ireland as a result of his enrollment in NUI Galway, he criticized Irish mushroom farmers for exploiting foreign workers by paying them as little as €2.50 an hour—way below the country's minimum wage of €7.65.
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When Sheen was living in Ireland as a result of his enrollment in NUI Galway, he criticized Irish mushroom farmers for exploiting foreign workers by paying them as little as €2
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2005· 1 entry
To pray with anti-Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan, who had demanded a second meeting with U
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2003· 1 entry
Stated "I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for The West Wing (2002).
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And in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2007)
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2001· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for The West Wing (2001).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for The West Wing (2001).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for The West Wing (2001).
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Sheen won a TV Guide Award for 'Actor of the Year in a Drama Series' for The West Wing
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2000· 2 entries
After the National Shooting Sports Foundation hired his politically conservative brother, actor Joe Estevez who sounds like Sheen, to do a voice-over for a pro-gunmaker commercial earlier in the year
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And was nominated six times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
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1997· 1 entry
Sheen volunteered his time to narrate the documentary film An Act of Conscience, which follows war tax resisters Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner, who, as a protest against war and military spending, openly refused to pay t
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1995· 1 entry
By a number of Canadian sealers in a hotel on Magdalen Islands over Sea Shepherd's history of attacks on sealing and whaling ships
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Murphy Brown (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Sheen's sympathetic portrayal of General Robert E
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1991· 1 entry
Narrated the Oliver Stone biographical film JFK (1991)
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1989· 1 entry
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1988· 1 entry
Was arrested outside the Israeli Defense Ministry offices in New York during a 30-minute rally protesting America's military alliance with Israel and condemning "the Israeli government's policies in the West Bank and
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1981· 1 entry
With Terrence Malick, director of Sheen's breakthrough film, Badlands (1973)
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1979· 1 entry
Sheen acted in The Final Countdown with Kirk Douglas, another actor with family connections to Bermuda (Diana Dill, Douglas's first wife and the mother of their sons Michael Douglas and Joel Douglas was a Bermudian)
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1976· 2 entries
“s opening sequence in a Saigon hotel room, Sheen”
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Participated in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane as Frank Hallet, the antagonist with bad intentions towards teenager protagonist Rynn Jacobs (Jodie Foster)
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1974· 2 entries
Earned Silver Shell for Best Actor for Badlands (1974).
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Sheen portrayed a hot rod driver in the television film The California Kid and that same year received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a television drama for his portrayal of Pvt
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1973· 2 entries
Sheen appeared opposite David Janssen in "Such Dust As Dreams Are Made On", the first pilot for the television series Harry O
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When he starred with Sissy Spacek in the crime drama Badlands, playing an antisocial multiple murderer
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1968· 1 entry
Played the titular role in Hamlet, directed by Joseph Papp at The Public Theater, with dialogue mostly in English and some in Spanish as Hamlet's alter ego
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1964· 1 entry
Co-starred in the Broadway play The Subject Was Roses; he later reprised his role in the 1968 film of the same name, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor
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1963· 1 entry
Made an appearance in "Nightmare", an episode of the television science fiction series The Outer Limits
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1961· 1 entry
And they have three sons and a daughter, all of whom are now actors: Emilio, Ramón, Carlos (who changed his name to Charlie Sheen), and Renée
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1940· 2 entries
To Mary-Ann (née Phelan; 1903–1951) and Francisco Estévez Martínez (1898–1974)
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Born 1940-08-03.
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