Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 17, 1960
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
Credits
162 titles
Sean Penn
Biography
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
Filmography
Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame
Self
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
Animals in War
In Thanks We Trust
Self
One Battle After Another
Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
aka Charlie Sheen
Self
Words of War
Executive Producer
Manas
Executive Producer
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Self - Actor and Founder of CORE
Becoming Madonna
Self (archive footage)
September 5
Producer
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
Daddio
Clark
BRATS
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
Self
C*A*U*G*H*T
Executive Producer
Gonzo Girl
Asphalt City
Gene Rutkovsky
Superpower
Self
Gaslit
John Mitchell
Licorice Pizza
Jack Holden
Flag Day
John Vogel
kid 90
Executive Producer
Citizen Penn
Himself
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Pizza Guy
Lights Out with David Spade
Self
The Professor and the Madman
Dr. William Chester Minor
The First
Tom Haggerty
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Sound of Sun
Man
The Last Face
Director
Mad Hannans
The Angry Birds Movie
Terence (voice)
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Human Experiment
Narrator
The Gunman
Jim Terrier
Sweet Micky for President
Self
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
Himself (archive footage)
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
Himself
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Self
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Sean O'Connell
Gangster Squad
Mickey Cohen
Americans
Commie
Haiti Untold
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
This Must Be the Place
Cheyenne