Sean Penn

Known for ActingBorn 1960-08-17 (age 65)Santa Monica, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Variety & CNN Actors on Actors

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

Inside Björk

Hellinger's Law

Manas

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Friends

Animals in War

Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer

aspekte

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Into the Wild

Summerspell

Mystic River

Carlito's Way

Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Sound of Sun

aka Charlie Sheen

Little House on the Prairie

One Battle After Another

The Larry Sanders Show

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

I Am Sam

Inside the Actors Studio

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Beaver Trilogy Part IV

Iconoclasts

The Game

Where Are They Now?

Two and a Half Men

Being John Malkovich

Family Guy

The Thin Red Line

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

21 Grams

The Professor and the Madman

Milk

The People Speak

Dead Man Walking

War Made Easy

The Graham Norton Show

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

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

September 5

kid 90

Licorice Pizza