
Sean Penn
Born August 17, 1960 · 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.
Movies

One Battle After Another

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Thin Red Line

The Angry Birds Movie

Mystic River

The Game

Carlito's Way

Licorice Pizza

The Interpreter

The Tree of Life

Being John Malkovich

Risky Business

Gangster Squad

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I Am Sam

21 Grams

The Gunman

Dead Man Walking

All the King's Men

Bad Boys

State of Grace

Casualties of War

I'm Still Here

U Turn

Fair Game

What Just Happened

The Professor and the Madman

Val
TV Shows

The View

The Graham Norton Show

Friends

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Two and a Half Men

Real Time with Bill Maher

Golden Globe Awards

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Little House on the Prairie

The Larry Sanders Show

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

The Oscars

Lights Out with David Spade

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

The Word

Gaslit

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

The Early Show

Variety & CNN Actors on Actors

Iconoclasts

The First

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Viva La Bam

aka Charlie Sheen

VH1 Rock Honors

Brando: The Documentary

Inside the Actors Studio

Celebrities Uncensored
More Movies

Asphalt City

Milk

We're No Angels

This Must Be the Place

Colors

At Close Range

Taps

Daddio

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Pauly Shore Is Dead

She's So Lovely

Before Night Falls

Racing with the Moon

Sweet and Lowdown

Flag Day

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Weight of Water

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Shanghai Surprise

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

The People Speak

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

Up at the Villa

It's All About Love

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Summerspell

Dogtown and Z-Boys

BRATS

Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another

Witch Hunt

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

Citizen Penn

Hugo Pool

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

The Killing of Randy Webster

Becoming Madonna

Red Rue Express

Beaver Trilogy

Brando

Hurlyburly

This So-Called Disaster

Gonzo Girl

Bukowski: Born Into This

21 Grams: In Fragments

Judgment in Berlin

The Last Party

A Constant Forge

Beaver Trilogy Part IV

Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer

Crackers

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity

Cruise Control

Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame

Searching for Debra Winger

Animals in War

Americans

Loved

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

Cool Blue

Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique

Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story

Superpower

Inside Björk

Sweet Micky for President

War Made Easy

El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle

Madonna: The Name of the Game

Hellinger's Law

The Human Experiment

Sound of Sun

In Thanks We Trust

Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame

Deflating the Elephant




