Cast
Sean Penn
Acting
Cast
Sean Penn
Known for
Acting
Born
1960-08-17
From
Santa Monica, California, USA
Also known as Sean Justin Penn
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.
★7.3
MOVIE2025
One Battle After Another
as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
★6.3
MOVIE2016
The Angry Birds Movie
as Terence (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE2013
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Sean O'Connell
★7.7
MOVIE2003
Mystic River
as Jimmy Markum
★6.5
MOVIE1988
Colors
as Danny McGavin
★7.6
MOVIE1997
The Game
as Conrad Van Orton
★7.4
MOVIE1998
The Thin Red Line
as 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
★6.9
MOVIE2021
Licorice Pizza
as Jack Holden
★6.8
MOVIE1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
as Jeff Spicoli
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Bad Boys
as Mick O'Brien
★7.4
MOVIE1999
Being John Malkovich
as Sean Penn (uncredited)
★7.6
MOVIE2001
I Am Sam
as Sam Dawson
★7.8
MOVIE1993
Carlito's Way
as David Kleinfeld
★6.7
MOVIE2011
The Tree of Life
as Jack
★6.6
MOVIE1983
Risky Business
as Passenger in Car (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE2008
Milk
as Harvey Milk
★6.4
MOVIE2013
Gangster Squad
as Mickey Cohen
★5.8
MOVIE2021
Flag Day
as John Vogel
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Dead Man Walking
as Matthew Poncelet
★7.2
MOVIE1989
Casualties of War
as Sgt. Tony Meserve
★7.3
MOVIE2003
21 Grams
as Paul Rivers
★5.8
MOVIE2015
The Gunman
as Jim Terrier
★6.3
MOVIE2005
The Interpreter
as Tobin Keller
★6.6
MOVIE1997
U Turn
as Bobby Cooper
★7.1
MOVIE2019
The Professor and the Madman
as Dr. William Chester Minor
★6.9
MOVIE2024
Becoming Madonna
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE2024
Daddio
as Clark
★6.8
MOVIE1986
At Close Range
as Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.
★7.0
MOVIE2011
This Must Be the Place
as Cheyenne
★6.7
MOVIE1981
Taps
as Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
★6.0
MOVIE2010
I'm Still Here
as Sean Penn (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE2006
All the King's Men
as Willie Stark
★6.9
MOVIE2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1990
State of Grace
as Terry
★6.3
MOVIE1984
Racing with the Moon
as Henry 'Hopper' Nash
★6.5
MOVIE2010
Fair Game
as Joseph Wilson
MOVIE2020
Citizen Penn
as Himself
★6.8
MOVIE1999
Sweet and Lowdown
as Emmet Ray
★5.3
MOVIE1997
Hugo Pool
as Strange Hitchhiker
★10.0
MOVIE2026
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The People Speak
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE2008
What Just Happened
as Sean Penn
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Before Night Falls
as Cuco Sanchez
★8.0
MOVIE2025
Animals in War
★7.0
MOVIE2008
Witch Hunt
as Himself (Narrator)
★6.4
MOVIE1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Daulton Lee
★2.0
MOVIE2023
Gonzo Girl
★6.2
MOVIE2023
Asphalt City
as Gene Rutkovsky
★4.8
MOVIE2016
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2000
Beaver Trilogy
as "Groovin' Larry" Huff
★5.9
MOVIE1997
She's So Lovely
as Eddie Quinn
★7.0
MOVIE2004
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
as Self
★4.2
MOVIE1986
Shanghai Surprise
as Glendon Wasey
★4.4
MOVIE2003
Pauly Shore Is Dead
as Sean Penn
★5.5
MOVIE2001
The Weight of Water
as Thomas Janes
★6.2
MOVIE1989
We're No Angels
as Jim
★6.0
MOVIE2024
BRATS
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE2004
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
as Samuel Bicke
★5.5
MOVIE1992
Cruise Control
★6.8
MOVIE2000
A Constant Forge
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Dogtown and Z-Boys
as Narrator
★7.1
MOVIE1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as (voice)
★5.2
MOVIE1993
The Last Party
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2012
Americans
as Commie
★5.5
MOVIE1988
Judgment in Berlin
as Guenther X
★4.7
MOVIE1984
Crackers
as Dillard
★6.5
MOVIE2015
The Human Experiment
as Narrator
★4.6
MOVIE1990
Cool Blue
as Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
MOVIE2008
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE2003
This So-Called Disaster
as Ray
★5.5
MOVIE1998
Hurlyburly
as Eddie
★2.0
MOVIE2004
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE2003
It's All About Love
as Marciello
MOVIE2017
Mad Hannans
★6.0
MOVIE1981
The Killing of Randy Webster
as Don Fremont
★8.8
MOVIE1981
Hellinger's Law
as Bit Part (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE2000
Up at the Villa
as Rowley Flint
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
★7.4
MOVIE2015
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
as Himself (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2004
21 Grams: In Fragments
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2003
Bukowski: Born Into This
as Self
MOVIE2026
Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE2006
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
★4.4
MOVIE1997
Loved
as Man on the Hill (Michael)
★8.6
MOVIE2003
Inside Björk
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2014
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2015
Sweet Micky for President
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2023
Superpower
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
MOVIE2025
In Thanks We Trust
as Self
★4.3
MOVIE1981
The Beaver Kid 2
as Groovin' Larry
★8.3
MOVIE2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2007
Brando
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1983
Summerspell
as Buddy
MOVIE1993
Madonna: The Name of the Game
as Self
★9.5
MOVIE2004
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE2017
Sound of Sun
as Man
★7.5
MOVIE2024
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
as Self
MOVIE2009
Deflating the Elephant
as Narrator
★8.0
MOVIE2024
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
as Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)
★6.6
MOVIE2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE2020
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
as Pizza Guy
★6.7
MOVIE2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE2007
War Made Easy
as Narrator (Voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
as Himself
MOVIE2012
Haiti Untold
★6.0
MOVIE1999
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
MOVIE1994
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
as Himself