Sean Penn
Acting
Né·e en 1960 · Santa Monica, California, USA
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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.
Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame
Film · 2026
Self
★ 8.0Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
Film · 2026
Self
★ 8.0Animals in War
Film · 2025
Role
In Thanks We Trust
Film · 2025
Self
★ 7.3One Battle After Another
Film · 2025
Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
★ 7.5aka Charlie Sheen
TV series · 2025
Self
★ 6.8Becoming Madonna
Film · 2024
Self (archive footage)
★ 8.0Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
Film · 2024
Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
★ 6.3Daddio
Film · 2024
Clark
★ 6.0BRATS
Film · 2024
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★ 7.5Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
Film · 2024
Self
★ 2.0Gonzo Girl
Film · 2023
Role
★ 6.2Asphalt City
Film · 2023
Gene Rutkovsky
★ 5.5Superpower
Film · 2023
Self
★ 6.9Gaslit
TV series · 2022
John Mitchell
★ 6.9Licorice Pizza
Film · 2021
Jack Holden
★ 5.8Flag Day
Film · 2021
John Vogel
★ 7.2Val
Film · 2021
Self (archive)
Citizen Penn
Film · 2020
Himself
★ 5.4Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
Film · 2020
Pizza Guy
★ 7.1The Professor and the Madman
Film · 2019
Dr. William Chester Minor
★ 6.0The First
TV series · 2018
Tom Haggerty
★ 7.5Sound of Sun
Film · 2017
Man
★ 5.5The Last Face
Film · 2017
Director
★ 6.3The Angry Birds Movie
Film · 2016
Terence
★ 4.8El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
Film · 2016
Self
★ 6.5The Human Experiment
Film · 2015
Narrator
★ 5.8The Gunman
Film · 2015
Jim Terrier
★ 6.8Sweet Micky for President
Film · 2015
Self
★ 7.4Beaver Trilogy Part IV
Film · 2015
Himself (archive footage)
★ 6.2Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
Film · 2014
Himself
★ 7.0Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Film · 2014
Self
★ 7.1The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Film · 2014
Self
★ 7.2The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Film · 2013
Sean O'Connell
★ 6.4Gangster Squad
Film · 2013
Mickey Cohen
★ 3.9Americans
Film · 2012
Commie
Haiti Untold
Film · 2012
Role
★ 6.9Woody Allen: A Documentary
Film · 2011
Self
★ 7.0This Must Be the Place
Film · 2011
Cheyenne
★ 6.7The Tree of Life
Film · 2011
Jack
★ 6.6Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Film · 2011
Self
★ 6.0I'm Still Here
Film · 2010
Sean Penn (uncredited)
★ 6.5Fair Game
Film · 2010
Joseph Wilson
★ 7.2The People Speak
Film · 2009
Self
Deflating the Elephant
Film · 2009
Narrator
★ 7.2Milk
Film · 2008
Harvey Milk
★ 5.4What Just Happened
Film · 2008
Sean Penn
★ 7.0Witch Hunt
Film · 2008
Himself (Narrator)
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Film · 2008
Self
★ 7.8Into the Wild
Film · 2007
Director
★ 7.2War Made Easy
Film · 2007
Narrator
★ 6.8Brando
Film · 2007
Self
★ 4.5Brando: The Documentary
TV series · 2007
Self
★ 7.2Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Film · 2006
Self
★ 5.8All the King's Men
Film · 2006
Willie Stark
★ 7.5When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
TV series · 2006
Self
★ 7.5Iconoclasts
TV series · 2005
Self
★ 6.3The Interpreter
Film · 2005
Tobin Keller
★ 7.0The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Film · 2004
Self
★ 6.5The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Film · 2004
Samuel Bicke
★ 8.3Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Film · 2004
Self
★ 7.021 Grams: In Fragments
Film · 2004
Self
★ 7.321 Grams
Film · 2003
Paul Rivers
★ 7.7Mystic River
Film · 2003
Jimmy Markum
★ 7.5Two and a Half Men
TV series · 2003
Sean Penn
★ 8.6Inside Björk
Film · 2003
Self
★ 4.4Pauly Shore Is Dead
Film · 2003
Sean Penn
★ 6.7Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Film · 2003
Self
★ 6.8Bukowski: Born Into This
Film · 2003
Self
★ 5.4It's All About Love
Film · 2003
Marciello
★ 5.3This So-Called Disaster
Film · 2003
Ray
★ 6.4September 11
Film · 2002
Director
★ 7.0Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Film · 2002
Self
★ 6.4Searching for Debra Winger
Film · 2002
Self (uncredited)
★ 7.0Dogtown and Z-Boys
Film · 2002
Narrator
★ 7.6I Am Sam
Film · 2001
Sam Dawson
★ 5.5The Weight of Water
Film · 2001
Thomas Janes
★ 6.6The Pledge
Film · 2001
Director
★ 8.0Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV series · 2000
Sean Penn
★ 6.8A Constant Forge
Film · 2000
Self
★ 6.7Before Night Falls
Film · 2000
Cuco Sanchez
★ 6.9Beaver Trilogy
Film · 2000
"Groovin' Larry" Huff
★ 5.3Up at the Villa
Film · 2000
Rowley Flint
★ 6.0Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Film · 1999
Role
★ 6.8Sweet and Lowdown
Film · 1999
Emmet Ray
★ 7.4Being John Malkovich
Film · 1999
Sean Penn (uncredited)
★ 7.4Family Guy
TV series · 1999
Sean Penn
★ 5.5Hurlyburly
Film · 1998
Eddie
★ 7.4The Thin Red Line
Film · 1998
1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
★ 5.3Hugo Pool
Film · 1997
Strange Hitchhiker
★ 4.4Loved
Film · 1997
Man on the Hill (Michael)
★ 6.6U Turn
Film · 1997
Bobby Cooper
★ 7.6The Game
Film · 1997
Conrad Van Orton
★ 5.9She's So Lovely
Film · 1997
Eddie Quinn
★ 7.3Dead Man Walking
Film · 1995
Matthew Poncelet
★ 6.0The Crossing Guard
Film · 1995
Writer
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Film · 1994
Himself
★ 8.4Friends
TV series · 1994
Eric
★ 7.8Carlito's Way
Film · 1993
David Kleinfeld
★ 5.2The Last Party
Film · 1993
Self
Madonna: The Name of the Game
Film · 1993
Self
★ 5.5Cruise Control
Film · 1992
Role
★ 7.7The Larry Sanders Show
TV series · 1992
Sean Penn
★ 6.5The Indian Runner
Film · 1991
Director
★ 7.0State of Grace
Film · 1990
Terry
★ 4.6Cool Blue
Film · 1990
Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
★ 7.2Casualties of War
Film · 1989
Sgt. Tony Meserve
★ 6.2We're No Angels
Film · 1989
Jim
★ 5.4Judgment in Berlin
Film · 1988
Guenther X
★ 6.5Colors
Film · 1988
Danny McGavin
★ 7.1Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Film · 1987
Role
★ 4.3Shanghai Surprise
Film · 1986
Glendon Wasey
★ 6.8At Close Range
Film · 1986
Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.
★ 6.4The Falcon and the Snowman
Film · 1985
Daulton Lee
★ 6.3Racing with the Moon
Film · 1984
Henry 'Hopper' Nash
★ 4.7Crackers
Film · 1984
Dillard
★ 6.6Risky Business
Film · 1983
Passenger in Car (uncredited)
★ 8.0Summerspell
Film · 1983
Buddy
★ 7.0Bad Boys
Film · 1983
Mick O'Brien
★ 6.8Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Film · 1982
Jeff Spicoli
★ 6.7Taps
Film · 1981
Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
★ 6.0The Killing of Randy Webster
Film · 1981
Don Fremont
★ 8.8Hellinger's Law
Film · 1981
Bit Part (uncredited)
★ 8.0Little House on the Prairie
TV series · 1974
Boy (uncredited)