Sean Penn
Acting
Born: August 17, 1960 (age 66) · Santa Monica, California, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Into the Wild
2007
Friends
1994
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
Mystic River
2003
The Game
1997
Family Guy
1999
Being John Malkovich
1999
Gangster Squad
2013
The Angry Birds Movie
2016
One Battle After Another
2025
Two and a Half Men
2003
Carlito's Way
1993
Photos (7)
Movies (71)
One Battle After Another
Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
The Angry Birds Movie
Terence (voice)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Sean O'Connell
The Game
Conrad Van Orton
Mystic River
Jimmy Markum
Carlito's Way
David Kleinfeld
The Thin Red Line
1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
I Am Sam
Sam Dawson
Licorice Pizza
Jack Holden
Being John Malkovich
Sean Penn (uncredited)
The Tree of Life
Jack
Risky Business
Passenger in Car (uncredited)
21 Grams
Paul Rivers
Bad Boys
Mick O'Brien
Gangster Squad
Mickey Cohen
Casualties of War
Sgt. Tony Meserve
The Interpreter
Tobin Keller
Milk
Harvey Milk
Fair Game
Joseph Wilson
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Jeff Spicoli
Daddio
Clark
The Gunman
Jim Terrier
U Turn
Bobby Cooper
State of Grace
Terry
The Professor and the Madman
Dr. William Chester Minor
Dead Man Walking
Matthew Poncelet
All the King's Men
Willie Stark
Taps
Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
Asphalt City
Gene Rutkovsky
At Close Range
Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.
Colors
Danny McGavin
This Must Be the Place
Cheyenne
We're No Angels
Jim
The Falcon and the Snowman
Daulton Lee
I'm Still Here
Sean Penn (uncredited)
What Just Happened
Sean Penn
Sweet and Lowdown
Emmet Ray
Before Night Falls
Cuco Sanchez
Flag Day
John Vogel
Racing with the Moon
Henry 'Hopper' Nash
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Samuel Bicke
Up at the Villa
Rowley Flint
Hugo Pool
Strange Hitchhiker
Shanghai Surprise
Glendon Wasey
She's So Lovely
Eddie Quinn
The Weight of Water
Thomas Janes
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Sean Penn
Crackers
Dillard
Gonzo Girl
2023
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
(voice)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Pizza Guy
It's All About Love
Marciello
Beaver Trilogy
"Groovin' Larry" Huff
Hurlyburly
Eddie
Americans
Commie
Animals in War
2025
Loved
Man on the Hill (Michael)
Judgment in Berlin
Guenther X
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Narrator
The Killing of Randy Webster
Don Fremont
Cool Blue
Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999
Hellinger's Law
Bit Part (uncredited)
War Made Easy
Narrator (Voice)
Cruise Control
1992
This So-Called Disaster
Ray
Summerspell
Buddy
The Human Experiment
Narrator
Sound of Sun
Man
Haiti Untold
2012
Deflating the Elephant
Narrator
TV Shows (11)
Family Guy
Sean Penn (voice) · 1 eps
Friends
Eric · 2 eps
Two and a Half Men
Sean Penn · 1 eps
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Sean Penn · 1 eps
Little House on the Prairie
Boy (uncredited) · 1 eps
The Larry Sanders Show
Sean Penn · 2 eps
The Word
2 eps
Gaslit
John Mitchell · 8 eps
The First
Tom Haggerty · 8 eps
VH1 Rock Honors
1 eps
Viva La Bam
1 eps
Self / Appearances (60)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · 4 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 4 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 2 eps
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Self - Actor and Founder of CORE · 1 eps
Lights Out with David Spade
Self · 1 eps
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self · 1 eps
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Self · 4 eps
aka Charlie Sheen
Self · 2 eps
Iconoclasts
Self · 1 eps
The Early Show
Self · 1 eps
Brando: The Documentary
Self · 2 eps
Val
Self (archive)
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Self
Becoming Madonna
Self (archive footage)
Citizen Penn
Himself
The People Speak
Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
BRATS
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Red Rue Express
himself
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
Self
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
Self
Superpower
Self
Brando
Self
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
Witch Hunt
Himself (Narrator)
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Searching for Debra Winger
Self (uncredited)
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Self
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Self
A Constant Forge
Self
The Last Party
Self
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
Self
Bukowski: Born Into This
Self
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
Himself (archive footage)
Sweet Micky for President
Self
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Self
In Thanks We Trust
Self
21 Grams: In Fragments
Self
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Himself
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Self
Inside Björk
Self
Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame
Self
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Self
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
Himself
Madonna: The Name of the Game
Self
Celebrities Uncensored
Self · 2 eps
Upcoming (3)
Directing (8)
Writing (6)
Producing (14)
Into the Wild
Producer
The Pledge
Producer
The Gunman
Producer
September 5
Producer
The Crossing Guard
Producer
Asphalt City
Producer
Words of War
Executive Producer
Flag Day
Producer
Manas
Executive Producer
C*A*U*G*H*T
Executive Producer
She's So Lovely
Executive Producer
kid 90
Executive Producer
Loved
Producer
The Human Experiment
Executive Producer
