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Martin Sheen es un actor y director nacido en el año 1940 en Estados Unidos conocido por Apocalypse Now, Infiltrados, Atrápame si puedes, Gandhi, The Amazing Spider-Man, El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca (Serie de TV), Malas tierras, Wall Street, La zona muerta y Trash, ladrones de esperanza.
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Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.) American actor best known for playing Capt. Benjamin L. Willard in the epic Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now (1979) and for portraying the U.S. president Josiah Bartlet in the political drama television series The West Wing (1999–2006). He is the father of actors Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, R...
Sheen was born to a Spanish father, Francisco Estévez, and an Irish mother, Mary-Ann Phelan, both of whom were devout members of the Roman Catholic Church. His father worked in a factory as a machine inspector, and his mother was a homemaker. He was the seventh of 10 children (nine boys and one girl), and the large family squeezed into a three-bedr...
He moved to New York City after high school, auditioning for acting roles during the day and working as a stock clerk at night. Concerned that he would be typecast because of his Spanish name, he adopted the professional name Martin Sheen after Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, whom he admired. He never changed his name legally, and his official personal documents and identification cards still list his name as Ramón Estévez. In a 2002 interview with Closer Weekly magazine, Sheen called the decision to change his name “one of my regrets.”
In 1961 he married actress and producer Janet Templeton, who was an art student at the time. In that same year, he made his New York City stage debut in the play The Connection, which he continued with when it was later also staged in London. Sheen landed his first significant television role in 1963 alongside actor George C. Scott in the drama series East Side/West Side. In 1964 he made his Broadway debut in the play Never Live over a Pretzel Factory, and later that year he starred in the play The Subject Was Roses, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He also starred in the film adaptation of The Subject Was Roses, which was released in 1968.
In 1970 he portrayed the emotionally unstable copilot Dobbs in the film adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical war novel Catch-22 (1961). Sheen’s breakout film role came in 1973 when he portrayed a killer on the run with actress Sissy Spacek in director Terrence Malick’s crime drama Badlands. In 1979 he landed his most prominent movie role, in Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark war film Apocalypse Now, which is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s short story, Heart of Darkness (1902). Sheen, a last-minute replacement for Harvey Keitel, played Capt. Benjamin L. Willard, who is tasked with finding and assassinating a rogue Green Beret colonel named Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), who has set up a renegade army in Cambodia.
The rigours of filming Apocalypse Now took a toll on Sheen’s mental and physical health. He cut his hand open while punching a mirror in a scene. He also suffered a heart attack while filming on location in the Philippines and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Manila. Additionally, he suffered a nervous breakdown, telling Rolling Stone magazine in a 1979 interview, “I completely fell apart. My spirit was exposed. I cried and cried. I turned completely gray—my eyes, my beard—all gray.” After filming ended, he started drinking heavily and fell into a deep depression.
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Martin Sheen. 83 años. Martin Sheen. Nació el 03 de Agosto de 1940 en Dayton, Ohio, EE.UU. Intérprete. Director. El capitán Willard. Juan Luis Sánchez. 21 Abril 2012. Para muchos, el mejor presidente que ha habido en la historia de los Estados Unidos, pues fue el mandatario Josiah Bartlet en El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca.
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Martin Sheen cumple 80 años: del activismo político al amor por su familia. 3 de agosto de 202000:30. Marcelo Stiletano. LA NACION. Martin Sheen cumple 80 años: una vida dedicada a la actuación y a las causas sociales AP.
Martin Sheen, cuyo verdadero nombre es Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, es un reconocido actor estadounidense nacido el 3 de agosto de 1940 en Dayton, Ohio. A lo largo de su carrera, ha dejado una huella indeleble en la industria cinematográfica, destacándose por su talento interpretativo y su compromiso con diversas causas sociales.
13 de mar. de 2024 · 1. Badlands (1973) En Badlands, Martin Sheen interpreta a Kit Carruthers, un joven desilusionado que emprende un violento viaje homicida junto a su joven compañera. La película dirigida por Terrence Malick es una obra maestra en sí misma, y la actuación de Sheen es absolutamente cautivadora.
27 de dic. de 2023 · Martin Sheen, el actor que todos eligen para interpretar a presidentes. Tiene cuatro hijos, todos actores. Charlie Sheen es el único que cambió su nombre como su padre. Por Cecilia Absatz. 27 de diciembre 2023, 07:09hs. Martin Sheen tiene décadas de experiencia como actor. (Photo by (Foto: AFP/Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
