Sean Penn
American actor and filmmaker (born 1960) · United States · Actors
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Something wrong?Two Best Actor Oscars anchor a career built on volatile intensity - the grieving father in Mystic River, Harvey Milk in biopic form - but the offscreen pugilism and humanitarian deployments to Haiti and Ukraine keep the name loud between films.
A life in dates
One Battle After AnotherFilm, Col. Steven J. Lockjaw2022Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd classAward
GaslitSeries, 2022John Mitchell2021
Licorice PizzaFilm, Jack Holden2018
Firing Line with Margaret HooverSeries2017
The Last FaceFilm, Director2015
The GunmanFilm, Writer, Producer2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSeries2011Producers Guild Stanley Kramer AwardAward
The Tree of LifeFilm, 2011Jack2010“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it. And this is mainstream media.”In their wordsMarch 2010Referring to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, in an appearance on the HBO show Real time with Bill Maher (March, 2010)2009“Thank you, you Commie, homo-loving sons of guns.”In their words22 February 2009Acceptance speech for the Best Actor award at the 81st Academy Awards ceremony (2009-02-22)Academy Award for Best ActorAward2008
MilkFilm, Harvey Milk2007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries2006
All the King's MenFilm, Willie Stark2004“Thank you. If there's one thing that actors know, other than that there weren't any WMDs, it's that there is no such thing as best in acting.”In their words29 February 2004Oscar acceptance speech for Mystic River, 76th Annual Academy Awards - Best Actor in a Leading Role (2004-02-29)Academy Award for Best ActorAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaAward2003Volpi Cup for Best ActorAward
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series, 2003
21 GramsFilm, 2003Paul Rivers1999
Being John MalkovichFilm, Sean Penn (uncredited)1998Volpi Cup for Best ActorAward1997Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ActorAward
The ViewSeries, 1997
The GameFilm, 1997Conrad Van Orton1996“You tolerate me. You really tolerate me.”In their words23 March 1996Said during Penn's 1996 acceptance of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in Dead Man Walking (1996-03-23)1993
Carlito's WayFilm, David Kleinfeld1992
The Larry Sanders ShowSeries, Sean Penn1989
Casualties of WarFilm, Sgt. Tony Meserve1986
At Close RangeFilm, Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont HighFilm, Jeff Spicoli1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1965aspekteSeries1960Born17 August 1960Also in Deutsch
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Penn at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
Penn in 2008
Penn portraying Harvey Milk during filming of Milk in March 2008
Penn with then-wife Robin Wright in September 2006; the two were married from 1996 to 2010.
Penn in Tehran in June 2005
Penn at the anti-Iraq War rally in Washington, D.C., in January 2007
Penn and President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during Penn's visit to Argentina in February 2012In their own words 5
, Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it. And this is mainstream media.
Thank you, you Commie, homo-loving sons of guns.
Thank you. If there's one thing that actors know, other than that there weren't any WMDs, it's that there is no such thing as best in acting.
Filmography 40
OAOne Battle After Another
SESeptember 5
ACAsphalt City
DADaddioLPLicorice Pizza
TMThe Professor and the MadmanTFThe Last Face
TMThe Angry Birds MovieTGThe Gunman
TMThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
GSGangster SquadTLThe Tree of Life
TPThis Must Be the Place
FGFair Game
IHI'm Still HereMIMilk
WHWhat Just Happened
IWInto the WildAMAll the King's Men
TIThe Interpreter
MRMystic RiverGR21 Grams
ISI Am Sam
TPThe PledgeBMBeing John Malkovich
SLSweet and Lowdown
TLThe Thin Red LineTGThe Game
UTU Turn
DWDead Man Walking
TGThe Crossing GuardCWCarlito's Way
SGState of GraceCWCasualties of War
WAWe're No Angels
COColorsARAt Close Range
RBRisky Business
BBBad BoysFHFast Times at Ridgemont High190 credits on file
Television 24
GAGaslit
LSLights Out with David SpadeFHFiring Line with Margaret Hoover
TFThe First
TCThe Late Show with Stephen ColbertTFThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
BGBetween Two Ferns with Zach GalifianakisTSThe Graham Norton Show
TMTwo and a Half MenJLJimmy Kimmel Live!
RMReal Time with Bill Maher
CECurb Your Enthusiasm
FGFamily GuyTVThe View
FRFriendsTSThe Larry Sanders Show
TWThe WordSLSaturday Night Live
LPLittle House on the Prairie
TOThe Oscars
GAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born August 17, 1960, Penn broke through playing Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) before pivoting to darker, coiled roles in Bad Boys and At Close Range. He earned five Oscar nominations across the '90s and 2000s for Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, I Am Sam, then won twice: Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008). He directed four features, including Into the Wild (2007), and acted steadily through The Tree of Life, Licorice Pizza, and into 2023's Daddio. In 2025 he took Best Supporting Actor for playing a corrupt officer in One Battle After Another. Offscreen he ran relief operations in post-Katrina New Orleans and post-earthquake Haiti, met with Cuba and Venezuela's presidents, and documented Ukraine's war, receiving the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2022.
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