Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his intense leading man roles in film. His accolades include three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for three British Academy Film Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy Award. He received the Honorary César in 2015 and the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2022. Penn made his feature film debut in the drama Taps (1981), before taking roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Bad Boys (1983), and At Close Range (1986). He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for playing a grieving father in Mystic River (2003) and the gay rights activist Harvey Milk in Milk (2008). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the ruthless military officer Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another (2025). He was Oscar-nominated for Dead Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and I Am Sam (2001). He also acted in Casualties of War (1989), State of Grace (1990), Carlito's Way (1993), The Game(1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Hurlyburly (1998), 21 Grams (2003), Fair Game (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), Licorice Pizza (2021) and Daddio (2023). Penn made his directorial film debut with the crime drama The Indian Runner (1991), followed by The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007). On stage, he acted in the Broadway plays Heartland (1981) and Slab Boys (1983). On television, he portrayed an astronaut in the Hulu drama series The First (2018) and John N. Mitchell in the Starz political thriller miniseries Gaslit (2022). Penn has also engaged in political and social activism, including his criticism of the George W. Bush administration, his contact with the presidents of Cuba and Venezuela, his humanitarian work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and his support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amidst the Russian-Ukrainian war. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Penn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	5.2093
Birthday	1960-08-17
Place of Birth	Santa Monica, California, USA
Also Known As	Sean Justin Penn,

The Interpreter

Mystic River

21 Grams

Dogtown and Z-Boys

Milk

Casualties of War

U Turn

Dead Man Walking

Licorice Pizza

State of Grace

All the King's Men

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Taps

Colors

The Game

I Am Sam

Before Night Falls

We're No Angels

Haiti Untold

I'm Still Here

Carlito's Way

Sweet Micky for President

Hurlyburly

The Thin Red Line

What Just Happened

The Tree of Life

Hugo Pool

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

It's All About Love

The Falcon and the Snowman

The People Speak

Sweet and Lowdown

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

The Weight of Water

21 Grams: In Fragments

Bad Boys

At Close Range

Searching for Debra Winger

Beaver Trilogy

Fair Game

She's So Lovely

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Racing with the Moon

Up at the Villa

Judgment in Berlin

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Gangster Squad

This Must Be the Place

Animals in War

Loved

Shanghai Surprise

Crackers

Superpower

The Killing of Randy Webster

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Gonzo Girl

Summerspell

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Cruise Control

The Human Experiment

The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles

The Gunman

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story

One Battle After Another

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

The Last Party

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

The Beaver Kid 2

Inside Björk

The Angry Birds Movie

Risky Business

BRATS

Pauly Shore Is Dead

Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer

Bukowski: Born Into This

The Professor and the Madman

Sound of Sun

Brando

This So-Called Disaster