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

Mystic River

20037.7

The Angry Birds Movie

20166.3

I Am Sam

20017.6

The Thin Red Line

19987.4

Flag Day

20215.8

Carlito's Way

19937.8

Risky Business

19836.6

Being John Malkovich

19997.4

The Tree of Life

20116.7

Licorice Pizza

20216.9

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19826.8

21 Grams

20037.3

Bad Boys

19837.0

Fair Game

20106.5

Gangster Squad

20136.4

The Gunman

20155.8

Colors

19886.5

The Interpreter

20056.3

Asphalt City

20236.2

The Professor and the Madman

20197.1

U Turn

19976.6

Dead Man Walking

19957.3

Casualties of War

19897.2

State of Grace

19907.0

Milk

20087.2

Taps

19816.7

I'm Still Here

20106.0

All the King's Men

20065.8

Daddio

20246.3

The Falcon and the Snowman

19856.4

This Must Be the Place

20117.0

What Just Happened

20085.4

At Close Range

19866.8

Sweet and Lowdown

19996.8

We're No Angels

19896.2

Before Night Falls

20006.7

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

20046.5

Racing with the Moon

19846.3

She's So Lovely

19975.9

BRATS

20246.0

The People Speak

20097.2

Hugo Pool

19975.3

Woody Allen: A Documentary

20116.9

Becoming Madonna

20246.9

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

20268.0

Pauly Shore Is Dead

20034.4

Searching for Debra Winger

20026.4

The Weight of Water

20015.5

Citizen Penn

2020

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

20047.0

Gonzo Girl

20232.0

Up at the Villa

20005.3

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

20067.2

Hellinger's Law

19818.8

Dogtown and Z-Boys

20027.0

Animals in War

20258.0

Hurlyburly

19985.5

Shanghai Surprise

19864.2

It's All About Love

20035.5

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

20042.0

Americans

20124.0

Cool Blue

19904.6

Beaver Trilogy

20006.9

Witch Hunt

20087.0

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

19877.1

Crackers

19844.7

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

Cruise Control

19925.5

Brando

20076.8

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

20147.1

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

2008

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

Judgment in Berlin

19885.5

Sweet Micky for President

20156.8

In Thanks We Trust

2025

Mad Hannans

2017

Bukowski: Born Into This

20036.7

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

20027.0

Superpower

20235.5

El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle

20164.8

The Killing of Randy Webster

19816.0

Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story

20146.2

Beaver Trilogy Part IV

20157.4

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read

20205.4

Loved

19974.4

Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer

20248.0

A Constant Forge

20006.8

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

20147.0

War Made Easy

20077.2

This So-Called Disaster

20035.3

The Last Party

19935.2

21 Grams: In Fragments

20047.0

Summerspell

19838.0

The Human Experiment

20156.5

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

20116.6

Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique

20247.5

Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame

2026

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

20036.7

Inside Björk

20038.6

Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19996.0

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

20048.3

Madonna: The Name of the Game

1993

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

1994

The Beaver Kid 2

19814.3

Deflating the Elephant

2009

Sound of Sun

20177.5

Haiti Untold

2012