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 w…