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Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. 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. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom Murphy Brown. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb. Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics.
In 1943, Sicilian immigrant Vito Scaletta is arrested during a robbery and opts to join the U.S. Army in order to avoid jail. After spending two years as a paratrooper on various World War II allied operations, including Operation Husky in Sicily, Vito is given leave in February 1945 to return home to Empire Bay. Finding that his mother and sister are struggling to repay his late father's debt since the family moved to the city in the 1920s, Vito turns to his best friend Joe Barbaro for help, after he provides him with counterfeit discharge papers that can allow him to leave the army for good. The pair slowly take on jobs for made man Henry Tomasino and caporegime Luca Gurino, members of the Clemente family, that secure Vito the money needed to clear his family's debt. However, his involvement in the theft and sale of federal ration stamps lead to him being arrested for the crime, convicted in court, and sentenced to prison for ten years. While in prison, Vito falls in with a crowd led by Leo Galante, the consigliere of mob boss Frank Vinci, and makes an impression on Galante by demonstrating his fighting skills. Meanwhile, Vito's mother dies one day while his sister is visiting him, and all his money - which have gave to his sister for a doctor and a wedding gift - is used for their mother's funeral instead.
