Sean Penn

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: Acting

Born: Santa Monica, California, USA, 1960-08-17

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Taps	Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer	68
2	1982	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Jeff Spicoli	68
3	1983	Bad Boys	Mick O'Brien	70
4	1984	Crackers	Dillard	47
5	1984	Racing with the Moon	Henry 'Hopper' Nash	62
6	1985	The Falcon and the Snowman	Daulton Lee	65
7	1986	At Close Range	Bradford "Brad" Whitewood Jr.	69
8	1986	Shanghai Surprise	Glendon Wasey	42
9	1988	Colors	Danny McGavin	65
10	1988	Judgment in Berlin	Guenther X	54
11	1989	We're No Angels	Jim	61
12	1989	Casualties of War	Sgt. Tony Meserve	72
13	1990	State of Grace	Terry	70
14	1993	Carlito's Way	David Kleinfeld	78
15	1995	Dead Man Walking	Matthew Poncelet	73
16	1997	She's So Lovely	Eddie Quinn	59
17	1997	The Game	Conrad Van Orton	76
18	1997	U Turn	Bobby Cooper	66
19	1997	Loved	Man on the Hill (Michael)	42
20	1997	Hugo Pool	Strange Hitchhiker	51
21	1998	The Thin Red Line	1st Sgt. Edward Welsh	75
22	1998	Hurlyburly	Eddie	55
23	1999	Sweet and Lowdown	Emmet Ray	68
24	2000	Up at the Villa	Rowley Flint	53
25	2000	Beaver Trilogy	"Groovin' Larry" Huff	68
26	2000	Before Night Falls	Cuco Sanchez	66
27	2000	The Weight of Water	Thomas Janes	55
28	2001	I Am Sam	Sam Dawson	76
29	2002	Dogtown and Z-Boys	Narrator	70
30	2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Self (uncredited)	63
31	2003	It's All About Love	Marciello	54
32	2003	21 Grams	Paul Rivers	73
33	2003	Mystic River	Jimmy Markum	77
34	2004	21 Grams: In Fragments	Self	0
35	2004	The Assassination of Richard Nixon	Samuel Bicke	65
36	2004	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing	Self	70
37	2005	The Interpreter	Tobin Keller	63
38	2006	All the King's Men	Willie Stark	58
39	2006	Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride	Self	72
40	2008	What Just Happened	Self	54
41	2008	Milk	Harvey Milk	72
42	2009	The People Speak	Self	72
43	2010	Fair Game	Joseph Wilson	65
44	2010	I'm Still Here	Sean Penn (uncredited)	60
45	2011	The Tree of Life	Jack	67
46	2011	This Must Be the Place	Cheyenne	70
47	2011	Woody Allen: A Documentary	Self	68
48	2012	Haiti Untold		0
49	2013	Gangster Squad	Mickey Cohen	64
50	2015	Sweet Micky for President	Self	68
51	2021	Licorice Pizza	Jack Holden	70
52		Animals in War		0
53	1981	Hellinger's Law	Bit Part (uncredited)	75
54	1981	The Killing of Randy Webster	Don Fremont	58
55	1981	The Beaver Kid 2	Groovin' Larry	43
56	1983	Summerspell	Buddy	80
57	1983	Risky Business	Passenger in Car (uncredited)	66
58	1987	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	(voice)	71
59	1990	Cool Blue	Phil the Plumber (uncredited)	41
60	1992	Cruise Control		20
61	1993	Madonna: The Name of the Game	Self	0
62	1993	The Last Party	Self	50
63	1999	Being John Malkovich	Sean Penn (uncredited)	74
64	1999	Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High		58
65	2000	A Constant Forge	Self	66
66	2002	Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick	Self	67
67	2003	This So-Called Disaster	Ray	42
68	2003	Bukowski: Born Into This	Self	68
69	2003	Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)	Self	50
70	2003	Pauly Shore Is Dead	Sean Penn	43
71	2003	Inside Björk	Self	88
72	2004	Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments	Self	75
73	2004	Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild	Self(archive footage) (uncredited)	0
74	2007	Brando	Self	68
75	2008	VH1 Rock Honors: The Who	Self	0
76	2008	Witch Hunt	Himself (Narrator)	70
77	2009	Deflating the Elephant	Narrator	0
78	2011	Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune	Self	66
79	2011	Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division	Self	0
80	2012	Americans	Commie	40
81	2013	The Human Experiment	Narrator	65
82	2013	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Sean O'Connell	72
83	2014	The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles	Self	71
84	2014	Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey	Self	70
85	2014	Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story	Himself	62
86	2015	Beaver Trilogy Part IV	Himself (archive footage)	74
87	2015	The Gunman	Jim Terrier	58
88	2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Terence (voice)	62
89	2017	Mad Hannans		0
90	2017	Sound of Sun	Man	75
91	2019	The Professor and the Madman	Dr. William Chester Minor	71
92	2020	Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read	Pizza Guy	55
93	2020	Citizen Penn	Himself	0
94	2020	Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity	Self (archive footage)	78
95	2021	Val	Self (archive footage)	72
96	2021	Flag Day	John Vogel	58
97	2023	Superpower	Self	55
98	2023	Gonzo Girl		13
99	2024	Asphalt City	Gene Rutkovsky	63
100	2024	Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique	Self	90
101	2024	BRATS	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	60
102	2024	Daddio	Clark	63
103	2024	Bruce Springsteen, le chanteur qui murmurait à l'oreille de l'Amérique	Himself (archive) - director, writer	65
104	2025	One Battle After Another	Col. Steven J. Lockjaw	0
105		Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame	Himself	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1965	aspekte	Self	70
4	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
5	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
6	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
7	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
8	1994	Friends	Eric	84
9	1997	The View		45
10	1999	Family Guy	Sean Penn (voice)	74
11	1999	Where Are They Now?	Self	75
12	1999	The Early Show	Self	57
13	2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Sean Penn	80
14	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
15	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
16	2003	Celebrities Uncensored	Self	40
17	2003	Two and a Half Men	Himself	75
18	2003	Viva La Bam		65
19	2005	The Reichen Show	Self	48
20	2005	Iconoclasts	Self	60
21	2006	VH1 Rock Honors		70
22	2006	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Self	76
23	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
24	2007	Brando: The Documentary	Self	45
25	2008	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Self	75
26	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
27	2018	Firing Line with Margaret Hoover		75
28	2018	The First	Tom Haggerty	60
29	2019	Lights Out with David Spade	Self	56
30	2022	Gaslit	John Mitchell	70
31	2025	Everybody's Live with John Mulaney	Self - Actor and Founder of CORE	70

Sean Penn

Film

Television