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Sean Penn

Sean Penn

Birthday: 1960-08-17 | Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

An American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008), as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter. Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in 1981's Taps and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, Penn emerged as a prominent leading actor with the 1995 drama film Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn subsequently received another two Oscar nominations for Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and I Am Sam (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for Mystic River and a second one in 2008 for Milk. He has also won a Best Actor Award of the Cannes Film Festival for She's So Lovely (1997), and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for Hurlyburly (1998) and 21 Grams (2003). Penn made his feature film directorial debut with 1991's The Indian Runner, followed by the drama film The Crossing Guard (1995) and the mystery film The Pledge (2001). In 2002, Penn directed one of the 11 segments of 11'09"01 September 11, a compilation film made in response to the September 11 attacks. In 2007, Penn directed his fourth feature film Into the Wild, which garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. In addition to his film work, Penn is known for his political and social activism, most notably his criticism of the George W. Bush administration, his contact with the Presidents of Venezuela and Cuba, and his humanitarian work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Penn also attracted media attention for his previous marriages to pop icon Madonna and actress Robin Wright. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Penn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Gaslit

as    John Mitchell

2021
Licorice Pizza

as    Jack Holden

2021
Flag Day

as    John Vogel

2021
Val

as    Self (archive footage)

2020
Citizen Penn

as    Himself

2019
The Professor and the Madman

as    Dr. William Chester Minor

2018
The First

as    Tom Haggerty

2016
The Angry Birds Movie

as    Terence (voice)

2015
Beaver Trilogy Part IV

as    Himself (archive footage)

2015
The Gunman

as    Jim Terrier

2013
Gangster Squad

as    Mickey Cohen

2013
The Human Experiment

as    Narrator

2013
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

as    Sean O'Connell

2012
This Must Be the Place

as    Cheyenne

2011
The Tree of Life

as    Jack

2011
2010
Fair Game

as    Joseph Wilson

2008
Milk

as    Harvey Milk

2008
What Just Happened

as    Himself

2008
Witch Hunt

as    Himself (Narrator)

2006
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
It's All About Love

as    Marciello

2003
21 Grams

as    Paul Rivers