Editing Martin Sheen (section)

=== 1980–1998: Established actor ===
[[File:Martin Sheen Cannes.jpg|right|thumb|Sheen at the [[1990 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
In the early 1980s he had roles in the science fiction war film ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]'' (1980), the biographical epic ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), the sports drama ''[[That Championship Season (1982 film)|That Championship Season]]'' (1982), and the drama film ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'' (1987) starring [[Michael Douglas]], and his son [[Charlie Sheen]]. He played Captain Hollister in ''[[Firestarter (1984 film)|Firestarter]]'' (1984) opposite [[Drew Barrymore]] and [[David Keith (actor)|David Keith]].

Sheen portrayed [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] in the miniseries ''[[Kennedy (1983 miniseries)|Kennedy]]'' (1983) for which he received nominations for the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actor]] and the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film]]. He also portrayed [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]] in the television special ''[[The Missiles of October]]'' (1974), [[White House Chief of Staff]] A.J. McInnerney in ''[[The American President (film)|The American President]]'' (1995), White House Counsel [[John Dean]] in the television mini-series ''[[Blind Ambition (TV miniseries)|Blind Ambition]]'' (1979) for which he was nominated for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama]]. In 1991 he narrated the [[Oliver Stone]] biographical film ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' (1991).

Other roles include the sinister would-be president [[Greg Stillson]] in ''[[The Dead Zone (film)|The Dead Zone]]'', the President in the [[Lori Loughlin]]-[[Chris Noth]] television mini-series, ''Medusa's Child'', the president in the short film ''Family Attraction''. In 1993, Sheen's sympathetic portrayal of General Robert E. Lee in the Ronald Maxwell film ''[[Gettysburg (1993 film)|Gettysburg]]'' (1993) met with acclaim.
Sheen has performed voice-over work as the narrator for the ''[[Eyewitness (1994 TV series)|Eyewitness]]'' series in the US for the first and second seasons and as the "real" [[Seymour Skinner]] in the controversial ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' episode "[[The Principal and the Pauper]]".