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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.
Martin Sheen
Uncle Ben Parker
for Uncle Ben Parker in The Spider-Man S1 E1
Suggested by jdeav
Peter Parker, a forensic crime scene assistant for The New York City Police Department, is bitten by a radioactive spider that is irradiated after a particle accelerator from OsCorp explodes. In a coma for nine months, Peter awakens in Oscorp Labs, having been placed in the care of its founder Norman Osborn and his assistants Dr. Curt Connors and Michael Morbius. Peter learns that he has gained the abilities of a spider, and that there were other "metahumans" created from the explosion. One of them, Pierre Fresson, is robbing banks with his ability to control wind. In order to stop Fresson, Peter is outfitted with a suit designed by Osborn. He tracks down Fresson and with Officer Jefferson Davis, who learns of Peter's abilities, Peter is able to stop Fresson, who is killed by Jefferson. With his new powers, Peter vows to exonerate his aunt May, who is incarcerated for murdering her husband, Ben, whom Peter witnessed, at a young age, being killed by another metahuman. He chooses the alias "Spider-Man" for his alter ego. Osborn, secretly revealed to be neither paraplegic nor needing glasses, reads a newspaper from 2024 stating the missing status of Spider-Man.
