Martin Sheen

Age: 69
Height: 5' 7"

Birth Place: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Born: Aug. 3rd, 1940

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Martin Sheen's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The West Wing	President J…
Cannon	Jerry Warton
Matt Lincoln	Charles
The Nurses	Saunders
Love Story	Frank (2)

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Purposely flunked his college entrance exam to the University of Dayton so that he could pursue an acting career instead. His father wholeheartedly disapproved until he had gained popular success, not even seeing Martin act until he saw him on the screen at a drive-in in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.

TRIVIA:

Was nominated for Broadway's 1965 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Subject Was Roses," a role that he recreated in the film version of the same name, _The Subject Was Roses (1968)_ (qv).
His mother, Mary Ann Phelan, was an Irish immigrant with IRA connections, and his father, Francisco Estevez, was a Spaniard who came to the U.S. by way of Cuba.
His father, Francisco Estevez, died shortly before the premiere of _"Blind Ambition" (1979)_ (qv). As he was unable to attend the funeral, Martin mourned his father in the scene in which John Dean cries in his jail cell.
(27 June 2001) Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation for trespassing at an Air Force base during a protest against the United States building a missile defense system.
Considers his late West Wing co-star 'John Spencer (I)' (qv) his best friend. Like Spencer, Sheen successfully recovered from drug and alcohol addictions.
Received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Marquette University (2003) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the dedication of the school's new library (according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel web site).
Born at 8:03 p.m. ET.
He can only put his jacket on by flipping it over his head (like Bartlet in _"The West Wing" (1999)_ (qv)). His left arm was crushed by forceps when he was born and he has limited lateral movement.