Sean Penn profile
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Sean Penn

17th August 1960 Santa Monica, California, USA Acting

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.

108 Movies 34 TV Shows 142 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

BRATS poster
BRATS 7th June 2024 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Milk poster
Milk 5th November 2008 as Harvey Milk
Hugo Pool poster
Hugo Pool 12th December 1997 as Strange Hitchhiker
Loved poster
Loved 31st October 1997 as Man on the Hill (Michael)
U Turn poster
U Turn 3rd October 1997 as Bobby Cooper
The Game poster
The Game 12th September 1997 as Conrad Van Orton
Cool Blue poster
Cool Blue 27th February 1990 as Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
Colors poster
Colors 15th April 1988 as Danny McGavin
Taps poster
Taps 20th December 1981 as Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
Gaslit poster
Gaslit 24th April 2022 as John Mitchell