Sean Penn
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
145
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-08-17 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
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 accoladesinclude two 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 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), Daddio(2023), and One Battle After Another (2025). 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
Family Guy
Friends
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Two and a Half Men
One Battle After Another
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
The View
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Real Time with Bill Maher
Little House on the Prairie
The Oscars
The Larry Sanders Show
The Reichen Show
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Bad Boys
Colors
Asphalt City
The Game
Where Are They Now?
Cool Blue
Taps
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Hurlyburly
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Milk
aspekte
Mystic River
BRATS
The Angry Birds Movie
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Lights Out with David Spade
Sweet and Lowdown
State of Grace
Carlito's Way
I'm Still Here
Racing with the Moon
Beaver Trilogy
Being John Malkovich
I Am Sam
The Tree of Life
The First
Licorice Pizza
21 Grams
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Gaslit
Gangster Squad
The Thin Red Line
She's So Lovely
Mad Hannans
Loved
Risky Business
The Gunman
Daddio
Summerspell
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Americans
Fair Game
Casualties of War
Hugo Pool
aka Charlie Sheen
The People Speak
Dead Man Walking
The Early Show
The Interpreter
Witch Hunt
U Turn
Gonzo Girl
All the King's Men
War Made Easy
Citizen Penn
Iconoclasts
Cruise Control
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
We're No Angels
Viva La Bam
At Close Range
The Professor and the Madman
What Just Happened
This Must Be the Place
The Human Experiment
Before Night Falls
Flag Day
The Falcon and the Snowman
Brando: The Documentary
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Up at the Villa
It's All About Love
Woody Allen: A Documentary
The Weight of Water
The Beaver Kid 2
Brando
VH1 Rock Honors
Inside the Actors Studio
Animals in War
Shanghai Surprise
Superpower
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Searching for Debra Winger
Judgment in Berlin
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
The Last Party
Crackers
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
21 Grams: In Fragments
Madonna: The Name of the Game
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Celebrities Uncensored
Sweet Micky for President
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
Hellinger's Law
Bruce Springsteen – The America whisperer
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Killing of Randy Webster
Bukowski: Born Into This
A Constant Forge
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
This So-Called Disaster
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
Inside Björk
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Haiti Untold
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Deflating the Elephant
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
Sound of Sun
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
"American Arts & Culture" Presents John Horatio Malkovich: "Dance of Despair and Disillusionment"
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
In Thanks We Trust
