Martin Sheen

Ramón Estévez, born in 1940 to a Spanish father and Irish mother, took the stage name Martin Sheen to land parts. His breakthrough came in 1964 with The Subject Was Roses on Broadway, earning him a Tony nomination, then a Golden Globe nod for the 1968 film version. The 1970s brought Badlands and the punishing shoot of Apocalypse Now, which earned him a BAFTA nomination but never the Oscar attention. He played presidents real and imagined - JFK in Kennedy, Jed Bartlet across seven seasons of The West Wing, a role that brought six Emmy nominations and six losses, tying the record for most nods without a win in the category. He picked up an Emmy for Murphy Brown, kept working through Gandhi, Wall Street, The Departed, kept going into his eighties with Grace and Frankie. All four of his children became actors.