MARTIN SHEEN
MARTIN SHEEN
MARTIN SHEEN was born Ramon Estevez in Dayton, Ohio. Directly out of high school he went to New York, where he began his acting career at the off-Broadway Living Theatre. His big break came in 1964, when he played a leading part in the Broadway production of "The Subject was Roses," a role he later repeated in the 1968 screen version.
Sheen made his feature film debut in 1967 in "The Incident." He followed this with such notable films as "Catch-22"; "Badlands" directed by Terrence Malick, in which he played an alienated youth on a killing spree, and for which he was named best actor at the San Sebastian Film Festival; "The Cassandra Crossing"; "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane," "Gandhi"; "That Championship Season"; "The Dead Zone"; "Wall Street"; and "Apocalypse Now" directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He co-executive produced "Da" and "Judgement in Berlin" in which he also starred, and made his feature film directorial debut with "Cadence." Sheen was most recently seen as Robert E. Lee in the epic film "Gettysburg," and he will be seen in the forthcoming films "Dillinger and Capone" and "Dorothy Day."
Sheen's prolific TV experience includes the title role in "The Execution of Private Slovik," portraying Robert Kennedy in the teleplay "The Missiles of October," John F. Kennedy in the mini-series "Kennedy," and John Dean in the mini-series "Blind Ambition." He made his directorial debut with the television special "Babies Having Babies" for which he won an Emmy.
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