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.
110 movies · 35 shows
Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame
2026·0.0
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
2026·8.0
Animals in War
2025·8.0
In Thanks We Trust
2025·0.0
One Battle After Another
2025·7.3
Becoming Madonna
2024·6.9
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
2024·8.0
Daddio
2024·6.3
BRATS
2024·6.0
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
2024·7.5
Gonzo Girl
2023·2.0
Asphalt City
2023·6.2
Superpower
2023·5.5
Licorice Pizza
2021·6.9
Flag Day
2021·5.8
Citizen Penn
2020·0.0
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
2020·5.4
The Professor and the Madman
2019·7.1
Sound of Sun
2017·7.5
Mad Hannans
2017·0.0
The Angry Birds Movie
2016·6.3
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
2016·4.8
The Human Experiment
2015·6.5
The Gunman
2015·5.8
Sweet Micky for President
2015·6.8
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
2015·7.4
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
2014·6.2
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014·7.0
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
2014·7.1
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013·7.2
Gangster Squad
2013·6.4
Americans
2012·4.0
Haiti Untold
2012·0.0
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011·6.9
This Must Be the Place
2011·7.0
The Tree of Life
2011·6.7
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011·6.6
I'm Still Here
2010·6.0
Fair Game
2010·6.5
The People Speak
2009·7.2
Deflating the Elephant
2009·0.0
Milk
2008·7.2
What Just Happened
2008·5.4
Witch Hunt
2008·7.0
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008·0.0
War Made Easy
2007·7.2
Brando
2007·6.8
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006·7.2
All the King's Men
2006·5.8
The Interpreter
2005·6.3
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004·7.0
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004·2.0
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004·9.5
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004·6.5
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004·8.3
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004·7.0
21 Grams
2003·7.3
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003·10.0
Mystic River
2003·7.7
Inside Björk
2003·8.6
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003·4.4
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003·6.7
Bukowski: Born Into This
2003·6.8
It's All About Love
2003·5.5
This So-Called Disaster
2003·5.3
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002·7.0
Searching for Debra Winger
2002·6.4
Dogtown and Z-Boys
2002·7.0
I Am Sam
2001·7.6
The Weight of Water
2001·5.5
A Constant Forge
2000·6.8
Before Night Falls
2000·6.7
Beaver Trilogy
2000·6.9
Up at the Villa
2000·5.3
Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999·6.0
Sweet and Lowdown
1999·6.8
Being John Malkovich
1999·7.4
Hurlyburly
1998·5.5
The Thin Red Line
1998·7.4
Hugo Pool
1997·5.3
Loved
1997·4.4
U Turn
1997·6.6
The Game
1997·7.6
She's So Lovely
1997·5.9
Dead Man Walking
1995·7.3
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
1994·0.0
Carlito's Way
1993·7.8
The Last Party
1993·5.2
Madonna: The Name of the Game
1993·0.0
Cruise Control
1992·5.5
State of Grace
1990·7.0
Cool Blue
1990·4.6
Casualties of War
1989·7.2
We're No Angels
1989·6.2
Judgment in Berlin
1988·5.5
Colors
1988·6.5
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987·7.1
Shanghai Surprise
1986·4.2
At Close Range
1986·6.8
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985·6.4
Racing with the Moon
1984·6.3
Crackers
1984·4.7
Risky Business
1983·6.6
Summerspell
1983·8.0
Bad Boys
1983·7.0
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982·6.8
Taps
1981·6.7
The Beaver Kid 2
1981·4.3
The Killing of Randy Webster
1981·6.0
Hellinger's Law
1981·8.8