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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 17, 1960
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
Also Known As
- 숀 펜
- شون بن
- ショーン・ペン
- ฌอน เพนน์
- 西恩·潘
- Sean Justin Penn
- Σον Τζάστιν Πεν
- شان پن
Sean Penn
4.2 Popularity
Biography
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie on December 4, 1974, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the drama Taps (1981), and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Bad Boys (1983), Penn garnered critical attention for his roles in the crime dramas At Close Range (1986), State of Grace (1990), and Carlito's Way (1993). He became known as a prominent leading actor with the drama Dead Man Walking (1995), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Woody Allen's comedy-drama Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and the drama I Am Sam (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for Mystic River and a second one in 2008 for Milk. He has also won a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the Nick Cassavetes-directed She's So Lovely (1997), and two Volpi Cups for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for the indie film Hurlyburly (1998) and the drama 21 Grams (2003). Penn made his feature film directorial debut with The Indian Runner (1991), followed by the drama film The Crossing Guard (1995) and the mystery film The Pledge (2001); all three were critically well received. Penn directed one of the 11 segments of 11'09"01 September 11 (2002), a compilation film made in response to the September 11 attacks. His fourth feature film, the biographical drama survival movie Into the Wild (2007), garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. In addition to his film work, Penn has engaged in political and social activism, including his criticism of the George W. Bush administration, his contact with the Presidents of Cuba and Venezuela, and his humanitarian work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Known For
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Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
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Animals in War
2025
0.0
Self
In Thanks We Trust
2025
7.5
Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
One Battle After Another
2025
7.5
Self
aka Charlie Sheen
2025
5.0
Self - Actor and Founder of CORE
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
7.5
Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
Bruce Springsteen – The America whisperer
2024
6.3
Clark
Daddio
2024
5.9
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
BRATS
2024
7.6
Self
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
2024
Credits
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Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
as Self
2025
0.0
Animals in War
2025
0.0
In Thanks We Trust
as Self
2025
0.0
One Battle After Another
as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
2025
7.5
aka Charlie Sheen
as Self
2025
7.5
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
as Self - Actor and Founder of CORE
2025
5.0
Bruce Springsteen – The America whisperer
as Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
2024
7.5
Daddio
as Clark
2024
6.3
BRATS
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
5.9
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
as Self
2024
7.6
Asphalt City
as Gene Rutkovsky
2024
6.2
Gonzo Girl
2023
1.3
Superpower
as Self
2023
5.5
Gaslit
as John Mitchell
2022
6.8
Licorice Pizza
as Jack Holden
2021
7.0
Flag Day
as John Vogel
2021
5.8
Citizen Penn
as Himself
2020
0.0
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
as Pizza Guy
2020
5.4
Lights Out with David Spade
as Self
2019
5.6
The Professor and the Madman
as Dr. William Chester Minor
2019
7.1
The First
as Tom Haggerty
2018
6.0
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
7.5
Sound of Sun
as Man
2017
7.5
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Mad Hannans
2017
0.0
The Angry Birds Movie
as Terence (voice)
2016
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Gunman
as Jim Terrier
2015
5.8
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
as Himself (archive footage)
2015
7.4
Sweet Micky for President
as Self
2015
6.8
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
as Himself
2014
6.2
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
2014
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
as Self
2014
7.1
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Sean O'Connell
2013
7.2
The Human Experiment
as Narrator
2013
6.5
Gangster Squad
as Mickey Cohen
2013
6.4
Americans
as Commie
2012
4.0
Haiti Untold
2012
0.0
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
2011
6.8
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Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
as Self
2011
0.0
This Must Be the Place
as Cheyenne
2011
7.0
The Tree of Life
as Jack
2011
6.7
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
as Self
2011
6.6
I'm Still Here
as Sean Penn (uncredited)
2010
6.0
Fair Game
as Joseph Wilson
2010
6.5
The People Speak
as Self
2009
7.2
Deflating the Elephant
as Narrator
2009
0.0
Milk
as Harvey Milk
2008
7.2
What Just Happened
as Self
2008
5.4
Witch Hunt
as Himself (Narrator)
2008
7.0
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
as Self
2008
0.0
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Self
2008
7.5
War Made Easy
as Self - Narrator (Voice)
2007
7.2
Brando: The Documentary
as Self
2007
4.5
Brando
as Self
2007
6.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
as Self
2006
7.2
All the King's Men
as Willie Stark
2006
5.8
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
2006
7.4
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
7.0
Iconoclasts
as Self
2005
6.0
The Reichen Show
as Self
2005
4.8
The Interpreter
as Tobin Keller
2005
6.3
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
as Self
2004
7.0
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
2.0
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Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
2004
0.0
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
as Samuel Bicke
2004
6.5
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
2004
7.5
21 Grams: In Fragments
as Self
2004
0.0
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Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
2003
0.0
Viva La Bam
2003
6.6
Mystic River
as Jimmy Markum
2003
7.7
Two and a Half Men
as Himself
2003
7.4
21 Grams
as Paul Rivers
2003
7.3
Inside Björk
as Self
2003
8.6
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Pauly Shore Is Dead
as Sean Penn
2003
4.3
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
as Self
2003
5.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Bukowski: Born Into This
as Self
2003
6.7
It's All About Love
as Marciello
2003
5.4
This So-Called Disaster
as Ray
2003
4.6
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
2002
6.7
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self (uncredited)
2002
6.3
Dogtown and Z-Boys
as Narrator
2002
7.0
I Am Sam
as Sam Dawson
2001
7.6
The Weight of Water
as Thomas Janes
2001
5.5
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Sean Penn
2000
8.0
A Constant Forge
as Self
2000
6.6
Before Night Falls
as Cuco Sanchez
2000
6.6
Beaver Trilogy
as "Groovin' Larry" Huff
2000
6.8
Up at the Villa
as Rowley Flint
2000
5.2
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999
5.8
Sweet and Lowdown
as Emmet Ray
1999
6.8
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Being John Malkovich
as Sean Penn (uncredited)
1999
7.4
Where Are They Now?
as Self
1999
7.5
Family Guy
as Sean Penn (voice)
1999
7.4
Hurlyburly
as Eddie
1998
5.5
The Thin Red Line
as 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
1998
7.4
Hugo Pool
as Strange Hitchhiker
1997
5.0
Loved
as Man on the Hill (Michael)
1997
4.2
U Turn
as Bobby Cooper
1997
6.6
The Game
as Conrad Van Orton
1997
7.6
She's So Lovely
as Eddie Quinn
1997
5.9
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Dead Man Walking
as Matthew Poncelet
1995
7.3
Friends
as Eric
1994
8.4
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Carlito's Way
as David Kleinfeld
1993
7.8
The Last Party
as Self
1993
4.6
Madonna: The Name of the Game
as Self
1993
0.0
Cruise Control
1992
2.0
State of Grace
as Terry
1990
6.9
Cool Blue
as Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
1990
4.2
Casualties of War
as Sgt. Tony Meserve
1989
7.1
We're No Angels
as Jim
1989
6.2
Judgment in Berlin
as Guenther X
1988
5.4
Colors
as Danny McGavin
1988
6.5
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as (voice)
1987
7.1
Shanghai Surprise
as Glendon Wasey
1986
4.2
At Close Range
as Bradford "Brad" Whitewood Jr.
1986
6.8
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Daulton Lee
1985
6.4
Racing with the Moon
as Henry 'Hopper' Nash
1984
6.2
Crackers
as Dillard
1984
4.5
Risky Business
as Passenger in Car (uncredited)
1983
6.6
Summerspell
as Buddy
1983
8.0
Bad Boys
as Mick O'Brien
1983
7.0
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
as Jeff Spicoli
1982
6.8
Taps
as Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
1981
6.8
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The Beaver Kid 2
as Groovin' Larry
1981
4.3
The Killing of Randy Webster
as Don Fremont
1981
5.8
Hellinger's Law
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1981
7.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
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aspekte
as Self
1965
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
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Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
as Himself
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0.0