Sean Penn

Acting · 4.8 popularity

Age

Movies

110

Born: August 17, 1960
From: Santa Monica, California, USA

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 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.

Works

110 films

One Battle After Another

20257.3

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

20137.2

The Game

19977.6

The Angry Birds Movie

20166.3

Mystic River

20037.7

I Am Sam

20017.6

Licorice Pizza

20216.9

The Thin Red Line

19987.4

Carlito's Way

19937.8

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19826.8

Risky Business

19836.6

The Tree of Life

20116.7

Gangster Squad

20136.4

Being John Malkovich

19997.4

The Interpreter

20056.3

Bad Boys

19837.0

21 Grams

20037.3

The Gunman

20155.8

Fair Game

20106.5

Asphalt City

20236.2

Colors

19886.5

Dead Man Walking

19957.3

Flag Day

20215.8

U Turn

19976.6

Milk

20087.2

Casualties of War

19897.2

The Professor and the Madman

20197.1

Taps

19816.7

State of Grace

19907.0

I'm Still Here

20106.0

Daddio

20246.3

All the King's Men

20065.8

Sweet and Lowdown

19996.8

What Just Happened

20085.4

The Falcon and the Snowman

19856.4

This Must Be the Place

20117.0

At Close Range

19866.8

She's So Lovely

19975.9

We're No Angels

19896.2

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

20268.0

BRATS

20246.0

Becoming Madonna

20246.9

Racing with the Moon

19846.3

The Weight of Water

20015.5

Before Night Falls

20006.7

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

20046.5

The People Speak

20097.2

Hugo Pool

19975.3

Woody Allen: A Documentary

20116.9

Citizen Penn

2020

Pauly Shore Is Dead

20034.4

Gonzo Girl

20232.0

Up at the Villa

20005.3

Searching for Debra Winger

20026.4

Dogtown and Z-Boys

20027.0

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

19877.1

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

20047.0

Animals in War

20258.0

It's All About Love

20035.5

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

20042.0

Hellinger's Law

19818.8

Shanghai Surprise

19864.2

Crackers

19844.7

Hurlyburly

19985.5

Cool Blue

19904.6

Witch Hunt

20087.0

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

20067.2

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

20147.1

Cruise Control

19925.5

Beaver Trilogy

20006.9

Mad Hannans

2017

Judgment in Berlin

19885.5

Americans

20124.0

Brando

20076.8

Superpower

20235.5

Loved

19974.4

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

2008

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

20027.0

The Killing of Randy Webster

19816.0

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle

20164.8

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

20048.3

Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame

2026

Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story

20146.2

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

20205.4

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

War Made Easy

20077.2

A Constant Forge

20006.8

This So-Called Disaster

20035.3

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

20147.0

In Thanks We Trust

2025

21 Grams: In Fragments

20047.0

Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer

20248.0

Beaver Trilogy Part IV

20157.4

The Human Experiment

20156.5

Sweet Micky for President

20156.8

Bukowski: Born Into This

20036.7

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

20036.7

The Last Party

19935.2

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

20116.6

Inside Björk

20038.6

Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique

20247.5

Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19996.0

Summerspell

19838.0

Sound of Sun

20177.5

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

1994

The Beaver Kid 2

19814.3

Madonna: The Name of the Game

1993

Deflating the Elephant

2009

Haiti Untold

2012