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