Sean Penn
Acting
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.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Sean O'Connell
Age 53 (now 65)
The Professor and the Madman
as Dr. William Chester Minor
Age 58 (now 65)
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
as Self
Age 65
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
as Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
Age 63 (now 65)
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
as Self
Age 63 (now 65)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
as Pizza Guy
Age 60 (now 65)
The Professor and the Madman
as Dr. William Chester Minor
Age 58 (now 65)
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
as Self
Age 55 (now 65)
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
as Himself
Age 54 (now 65)
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
Age 53 (now 65)
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
as Self
Age 53 (now 65)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Sean O'Connell
Age 53 (now 65)
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
as Self
Age 44 (now 65)
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 44 (now 65)Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
Age 43 (now 65)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
as Samuel Bicke
Age 43 (now 65)
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
Age 43 (now 65)Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
Age 43 (now 65)
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
Age 42 (now 65)
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as (voice)
Age 27 (now 65)Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
as Himself
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
as Self - Actor and Founder of CORE
Age 64 (now 65)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Age 55 (now 65)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Age 53 (now 65)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Self
Age 47 (now 65)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
as Self
Age 46 (now 65)
Little House on the Prairie
as Boy (uncredited)
Age 14 (now 65)Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Sean Justin Penn
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