Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez was born on the 3rd August, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio, USA of Spanish (father) and Irish (mother) descent. He is an actor well known under the name Martin Sheen. He is the winner of the Primetime Emmy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as Golden Globe Award and many others. Sheen owns a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Martin Sheen has been accumulating his net worth as an actor since 1961.
How rich is this legendary actor? It has been estimated that the overall size of the Martin Sheen’s net worth is over $50 million, accumulated during his more than 50 years in the film industry.
Martin Sheen Net Worth $50 Million
The childhood of the actor wasn’t straight-forward; together with his nine siblings, he was raised in the orphanage as his mother died in 1950 and father could not handle the burden. He was educated at Chaminade High School, and afterwards he moved to New York in order to pursue a career in acting, even though his father disapproved this. The passion for acting was so strong that he deliberately failed the exam to enter the University of Dayton, as a result spending years at the Living Theatre Company. Subsequently however, his passion for acting resulted in much revenue to the total size of Martin Sheen’s net worth. His stage name Martin Sheen also has its own history, as he took one part of it from the name of Robert Dale Martin, the CBS casting director who helped him at the very beginning, and another part from the name of the televangelist Fulton J. Sheen, who inspired him spiritually.
Talking about his career, he rose to prominence after landing roles in the crime film “Badlands” (1973), directed and written by Terrence Malick, and the iconic war film “Apocalypse Now” (1979), directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. For his role in the latter, the actor was nominated for BAFTA and American Movie Awards as the Best Lead Actor. Up until now, Sheen has created more than 120 roles in feature films, among which have been appearances in the very successful films “Gettysburg” (1993), “The Departed” (2006), and “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012). Currently, he is working on the set of the upcoming feature films “Trash”, “The 33” and the documentary film “Unity” which will also increase the size of Martin Sheen net worth. Overall, Sheen has appeared in an astonishing 115 movies, so his versatility, and popularity at the box office is unquestioned, and has also consistently added to his net worth.
In addition to this, Sheen has landed a successful career on television. His notable works there include roles in the television series “CBS Schoolbreak Special” (1980–1996), “Murphy Brown” (1988–1998), “The West Wing” (1999–2006) and “Two and a Half Men” (2003–2015). Sheen also landed parts in the well known television films “Taxi!!!” (1978), “The Guardian” (1985), “Nightbreaker” (1990), and miniseries “Blind Ambition” (1980) as well as “Kennedy” (1984). Martin’s appearances total almost 40.
Martin’s voice is easily recognised by the documentary lovers as he narrated a number of them including “Secrets of the Titanic” (1986), “Taylor’s Campaign” (1998), “Winning New Hampshire” (2004), “Death by China” (2012) and many other, more than 50 altogether. On the whole, television is a very important source when it comes to accumulating the net worth of Martin Sheen.
Finally, does Sheen have time for a personal life? Fortunately perhaps, this has been very stable of the actor, as he married Janet Templeton in 1961, and they have four children, all of whom have become actors. Currently, he has ten grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
