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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 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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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November 6th, 2025 | Animals in War | TBD | 8 | |
September 27th, 2025 | In Thanks We Trust | Self | TBD | |
September 23rd, 2025 | One Battle After Another | Col. Steven J. Lockjaw | 7.4 | |
December 30th, 2024 | Becoming Madonna | Self (archive footage) | 6.9 | |
July 31st, 2024 | Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer | Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage) | 8 | |
June 27th, 2024 | Daddio | Clark | 6.3 | |
June 7th, 2024 | BRATS | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 6 | |
May 6th, 2024 | Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique | Self | 7.5 | |
September 7th, 2023 | Gonzo Girl | TBD | 1.2 | |
May 12th, 2023 | Asphalt City | Gene Rutkovsky | 6.2 | |
February 17th, 2023 | Superpower | Self | 5.5 | |
November 26th, 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Jack Holden | 7 | |
August 20th, 2021 | Flag Day | John Vogel | 5.8 | |
September 24th, 2020 | Citizen Penn | Himself | TBD | |
September 17th, 2020 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read | Pizza Guy | 5.4 | |
March 7th, 2019 | The Professor and the Madman | Dr. William Chester Minor | 7.1 | |
January 14th, 2017 | Sound of Sun | Man | 7.5 | |
January 1st, 2017 | Mad Hannans | TBD | TBD | |
May 11th, 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | Terence (voice) | 6.3 | |
March 10th, 2016 | El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle | Self | 4.8 | |
April 17th, 2015 | The Human Experiment | Narrator | 6.5 | |
February 16th, 2015 | The Gunman | Jim Terrier | 5.8 | |
January 23rd, 2015 | Sweet Micky for President | Self | 6.8 | |
January 23rd, 2015 | Beaver Trilogy Part IV | Himself (archive footage) | 7.4 | |
November 25th, 2014 | Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story | Himself | 6.2 | |
June 15th, 2014 | Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | Self | 7 | |
February 9th, 2014 | The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles | Self | 7.1 | |
December 18th, 2013 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Sean O'Connell | 7.2 | |
January 9th, 2013 | Gangster Squad | Mickey Cohen | 6.4 | |
October 10th, 2012 | Americans | Commie | 4 | |
January 1st, 2012 | Haiti Untold | TBD | TBD | |
November 20th, 2011 | Woody Allen: A Documentary | Self | 6.9 | |
August 24th, 2011 | This Must Be the Place | Cheyenne | 7 | |
May 17th, 2011 | The Tree of Life | Jack | 6.7 | |
January 5th, 2011 | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Self | 6.6 | |
September 10th, 2010 | I'm Still Here | Sean Penn (uncredited) | 6 | |
May 20th, 2010 | Fair Game | Joseph Wilson | 6.5 | |
December 13th, 2009 | The People Speak | Self | 7.2 | |
May 19th, 2009 | Deflating the Elephant | Narrator | TBD | |
November 5th, 2008 | Milk | Harvey Milk | 7.2 | |
October 17th, 2008 | What Just Happened | Sean Penn | 5.4 | |
September 7th, 2008 | Witch Hunt | Himself (Narrator) | 7 | |
July 17th, 2008 | VH1 Rock Honors: The Who | Self | TBD | |
August 23rd, 2007 | War Made Easy | Narrator (Voice) | 7.2 | |
May 1st, 2007 | Brando | Self | 6.8 | |
December 12th, 2006 | Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Self | 7.2 | |
September 10th, 2006 | All the King's Men | Willie Stark | 5.8 | |
April 8th, 2005 | The Interpreter | Tobin Keller | 6.3 | |
October 12th, 2004 | The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing | Self | 7 | |
August 29th, 2004 | Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild | Self(archive footage) (uncredited) | 2 | |
June 8th, 2004 | Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | 9.5 | |
May 17th, 2004 | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Samuel Bicke | 6.5 | |
May 1st, 2004 | Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments | Self | 8.3 | |
March 16th, 2004 | 21 Grams: In Fragments | Self | 7 | |
October 31st, 2003 | Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | 10 | |
October 8th, 2003 | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum | 7.7 | |
September 6th, 2003 | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers | 7.3 | |
August 23rd, 2003 | Inside Björk | Self | 8.6 | |
March 11th, 2003 | Pauly Shore Is Dead | Sean Penn | 4.4 | |
February 10th, 2003 | Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) | Self | 6.7 | |
January 18th, 2003 | Bukowski: Born Into This | Self | 6.8 | |
January 10th, 2003 | It's All About Love | Marciello | 5.5 | |
January 1st, 2003 | This So-Called Disaster | Ray | 5.3 | |
September 1st, 2002 | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self | 7 | |
July 13th, 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Self (uncredited) | 6.4 | |
May 10th, 2002 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | Narrator | 7 | |
December 28th, 2001 | I Am Sam | Sam Dawson | 7.6 | |
March 30th, 2001 | The Weight of Water | Thomas Janes | 5.5 | |
October 1st, 2000 | A Constant Forge | Self | 6.8 | |
September 3rd, 2000 | Before Night Falls | Cuco Sanchez | 6.7 | |
August 13th, 2000 | Beaver Trilogy | "Groovin' Larry" Huff | 6.9 | |
April 14th, 2000 | Up at the Villa | Rowley Flint | 5.3 | |
December 21st, 1999 | Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High | TBD | 6 | |
December 3rd, 1999 | Sweet and Lowdown | Emmet Ray | 6.8 | |
October 29th, 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Sean Penn (uncredited) | 7.4 | |
December 25th, 1998 | Hurlyburly | Eddie | 5.5 | |
December 23rd, 1998 | The Thin Red Line | 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh | 7.4 | |
December 12th, 1997 | Hugo Pool | Strange Hitchhiker | 5.2 | |
October 31st, 1997 | Loved | Man on the Hill (Michael) | 4.4 | |
October 3rd, 1997 | U Turn | Bobby Cooper | 6.6 | |
September 12th, 1997 | The Game | Conrad Van Orton | 7.6 | |
August 29th, 1997 | She's So Lovely | Eddie Quinn | 5.9 | |
December 29th, 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Matthew Poncelet | 7.3 | |
November 10th, 1993 | Carlito's Way | David Kleinfeld | 7.8 | |
August 27th, 1993 | The Last Party | Self | 5.2 | |
January 1st, 1993 | Madonna: The Name of the Game | Self | TBD | |
October 1st, 1992 | Cruise Control | TBD | 5.5 | |
September 14th, 1990 | State of Grace | Terry | 7 | |
February 27th, 1990 | Cool Blue | Phil the Plumber (uncredited) | 4.6 | |
August 18th, 1989 | Casualties of War | Sgt. Tony Meserve | 7.2 | |
June 2nd, 1989 | We're No Angels | Jim | 6.2 | |
May 6th, 1988 | Judgment in Berlin | Guenther X | 5.5 | |
April 15th, 1988 | Colors | Danny McGavin | 6.5 | |
October 1st, 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | (voice) | 7.1 | |
August 29th, 1986 | Shanghai Surprise | Glendon Wasey | 4.3 | |
April 18th, 1986 | At Close Range | Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr. | 6.8 | |
January 25th, 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | Daulton Lee | 6.4 | |
March 23rd, 1984 | Racing with the Moon | Henry 'Hopper' Nash | 6.3 | |
February 17th, 1984 | Crackers | Dillard | 4.7 | |
August 5th, 1983 | Risky Business | Passenger in Car (uncredited) | 6.6 | |
July 2nd, 1983 | Summerspell | Buddy | 8 | |
March 25th, 1983 | Bad Boys | Mick O'Brien | 7 | |
August 13th, 1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Jeff Spicoli | 6.8 | |
December 20th, 1981 | Taps | Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer | 6.8 | |
September 4th, 1981 | The Beaver Kid 2 | Groovin' Larry | 4.3 | |
March 11th, 1981 | The Killing of Randy Webster | Don Fremont | 6 | |
March 10th, 1981 | Hellinger's Law | Bit Part (uncredited) | 8.8 | |
TBD | Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame | Himself | TBD |