Sean Penn
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.
143 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 143
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Friends
1994
Two and a Half Men
2003
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
One Battle After Another
2025
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
The Oscars
1953
The Reichen Show
2005
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Where Are They Now?
1999
The Angry Birds Movie
2016
Lights Out with David Spade
2019
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
aspekte
1965
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
I Am Sam
2001
Gaslit
2022
Mystic River
2003
The Game
1997
The Thin Red Line
1998
Iconoclasts
2005
Carlito's Way
1993
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
Being John Malkovich
1999
The Tree of Life
2011
Risky Business
1983
Licorice Pizza
2021
The First
2018
Gangster Squad
2013
The Interpreter
2005
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
Milk
2008
Colors
1988
Dead Man Walking
1995
Bad Boys
1983
21 Grams
2003
Casualties of War
1989
aka Charlie Sheen
2025
U Turn
1997
The Professor and the Madman
2019
The Early Show
1999
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Viva La Bam
2003
Fair Game
2010
State of Grace
1990
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
At Close Range
1986
I'm Still Here
2010
The Gunman
2015
Daddio
2024
Taps
1981
Brando: The Documentary
2007
We're No Angels
1989
What Just Happened
2008
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
All the King's Men
2006
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
Before Night Falls
2000
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
Asphalt City
2023
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
BRATS
2024
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
2020
Sweet and Lowdown
1999
Shanghai Surprise
1986
The Weight of Water
2001
Flag Day
2021
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
She's So Lovely
1997
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
2014
This Must Be the Place
2011
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
It's All About Love
2003
Racing with the Moon
1984
Brando
2007
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Hurlyburly
1998
Hugo Pool
1997
Loved
1997
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
Judgment in Berlin
1988
The People Speak
2009
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Crackers
1984
Up at the Villa
2000
Gonzo Girl
2023
The Killing of Randy Webster
1981
Superpower
2023
Cool Blue
1990
Becoming Madonna
2024
Beaver Trilogy
2000
Dogtown and Z-Boys
2002
Hellinger's Law
1981
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
2024
Americans
2012
War Made Easy
2007
A Constant Forge
2000
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
The Last Party
1993
Bukowski: Born Into This
2003
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
2024
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
Animals in War
2025
Sweet Micky for President
2015
Witch Hunt
2008
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014
Inside Björk
2003
Citizen Penn
2020
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
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Beaver Trilogy Part IV
2015
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004
Cruise Control
1992
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
Summerspell
1983
This So-Called Disaster
2003
Hollywood Cream
2026
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
2014
Sound of Sun
2017
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011
The Human Experiment
2015
Haiti Untold
2012
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
2016
Madonna: The Name of the Game
1993
The Beaver Kid 2
1981
In Thanks We Trust
2025
Mad Hannans
2017
Deflating the Elephant
2009
