Sean Penn
Acting
Born 1960-08-17
Santa Monica, California, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Family Guy
Friends
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Saturday Night Live
Two and a Half Men
The Graham Norton Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
The View
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Little House on the Prairie
Golden Globe Awards
The Larry Sanders Show
One Battle After Another
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Oscars
The Reichen Show
The Game
The Angry Birds Movie
Mystic River
Where the Wild Things Are
Into the Wild
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Lights Out with David Spade
I Am Sam
The Word
The Thin Red Line
Licorice Pizza
Where Are They Now?
Carlito's Way
Gaslit
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Risky Business
The Tree of Life
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Gangster Squad
Being John Malkovich
The Interpreter
Bad Boys
21 Grams
The Gunman
Fair Game
The Pledge
Asphalt City
Colors
Iconoclasts
aka Charlie Sheen
Dead Man Walking
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Flag Day
September 5
U Turn
Milk
Casualties of War
The Professor and the Madman
Taps
State of Grace
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