biography
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Sheen, Martin
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originally Ramon Estevez
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He worked in the theatre before beginning a film career in Catch 22 (1970). Later films include Apocalypse Now (1979), Wall Street (1983), The American President (1995), and Lost and Found (1999). Known for his support of liberal causes, he narrated Broken Arrow (1985), an Oscar-winning documentary about the Navajo nation, and helped narrate the letter-from-Vietnam documentary Dear America (1987). He plays the liberal president in the television series West Wing (1999), for which he received a Best Actor Golden Globe award. He is the father of Charlie Sheen. |
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