Sean Penn
Biography
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie on December 4, 1974, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the...Read More
Known For
Acting Career
- 2025
One Battle After Another
As: Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
- 2024
Daddio
As: Clark
- 2024
Asphalt City
As: Gene Rutkovsky
- 2022
Gaslit
As: John Mitchell
- 2021
Licorice Pizza
As: Jack Holden
- 2021
Flag Day
As: John Vogel
- 2020
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
As: Pizza Guy
- 2019
The Professor and the Madman
As: Dr. William Chester Minor
- 2018
The First
As: Tom Haggerty
- 2017
Sound of Sun
As: Man
- 2016
The Angry Birds Movie
As: Terence (voice)
- 2015
The Gunman
As: Jim Terrier
- 2013
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
As: Sean O'Connell
- 2013
The Human Experiment
As: Narrator
- 2013
Gangster Squad
As: Mickey Cohen
- 2012
Americans
As: Commie
- 2011
This Must Be the Place
As: Cheyenne
- 2011
The Tree of Life
As: Jack
- 2010
I'm Still Here
As: Sean Penn (uncredited)
- 2010
Fair Game
As: Joseph Wilson
- 2009
Deflating the Elephant
As: Narrator
- 2008
Milk
As: Harvey Milk
- 2006
All the King's Men
As: Willie Stark
- 2005
The Interpreter
As: Tobin Keller
- 2004
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
As: Samuel Bicke
- 2003
Mystic River
As: Jimmy Markum
- 2003
21 Grams
As: Paul Rivers
- 2003
Pauly Shore Is Dead
As: Sean Penn
- 2003
It's All About Love
As: Marciello
- 2003
This So-Called Disaster
As: Ray
- 2002
Dogtown and Z-Boys
As: Narrator
- 2001
I Am Sam
As: Sam Dawson
- 2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm
As: Sean Penn
- 2000
The Weight of Water
As: Thomas Janes
- 2000
Before Night Falls
As: Cuco Sanchez
- 2000
Beaver Trilogy
As: "Groovin' Larry" Huff
- 2000
Up at the Villa
As: Rowley Flint
- 1999
Sweet and Lowdown
As: Emmet Ray
- 1999
Being John Malkovich
As: Sean Penn (uncredited)
- 1999
Family Guy
As: Sean Penn (voice)
- 1998
Hurlyburly
As: Eddie
- 1998
The Thin Red Line
As: 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
- 1997
Hugo Pool
As: Strange Hitchhiker
- 1997
Loved
As: Man on the Hill (Michael)
- 1997
U Turn
As: Bobby Cooper
- 1997
The Game
As: Conrad Van Orton
- 1997
She's So Lovely
As: Eddie Quinn
- 1995
Dead Man Walking
As: Matthew Poncelet
- 1994
Friends
As: Eric
- 1993
Carlito's Way
As: David Kleinfeld
- 1990
State of Grace
As: Terry
- 1990
Cool Blue
As: Phil the Plumber (uncredited)
- 1989
Casualties of War
As: Sgt. Tony Meserve
- 1989
We're No Angels
As: Jim
- 1988
Judgment in Berlin
As: Guenther X
- 1988
Colors
As: Danny McGavin
- 1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
As: (voice)
- 1986
Shanghai Surprise
As: Glendon Wasey
- 1986
At Close Range
As: Bradford "Brad" Whitewood Jr.
- 1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
As: Daulton Lee
- 1984
Racing with the Moon
As: Henry 'Hopper' Nash
- 1984
Crackers
As: Dillard
- 1983
Risky Business
As: Passenger in Car (uncredited)
- 1983
Summerspell
As: Buddy
- 1983
Bad Boys
As: Mick O'Brien
- 1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
As: Jeff Spicoli
- 1981
Taps
As: Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
- 1981
The Killing of Randy Webster
As: Don Fremont
- 1981
Hellinger's Law
As: Bit Part (uncredited)