Sean Penn
Acting
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…
Filmography
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Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
2026
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
Animals in War
2025
In Thanks We Trust
2025
One Battle After Another
2025
aka Charlie Sheen
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
Becoming Madonna
2024
Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer
2024
Daddio
2024
BRATS
2024
Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique
2024
Gonzo Girl
2023
Asphalt City
2023
Superpower
2023
Gaslit
2022
Licorice Pizza
2021
Flag Day
2021
Citizen Penn
2020
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read
2020
Lights Out with David Spade
2019
The Professor and the Madman
2019
The First
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Sound of Sun
2017
Mad Hannans
Mad Hannans
2017
The Angry Birds Movie
2016
El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Human Experiment
2015
The Gunman
2015
Sweet Micky for President
2015
Beaver Trilogy Part IV
2015
Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story
2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
2014
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
Gangster Squad
2013
Americans
2012
Haiti Untold
2012
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
This Must Be the Place
2011
The Tree of Life
2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011
I'm Still Here
2010
Fair Game
2010
The People Speak
2009
Deflating the Elephant
2009
Milk
2008
What Just Happened
2008
Witch Hunt
2008
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
War Made Easy
2007
Brando
2007
Brando: The Documentary
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
All the King's Men
2006
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
Iconoclasts
2005
The Reichen Show
2005
The Interpreter
2005
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
Viva La Bam
2003
Mystic River
2003
Two and a Half Men
2003
21 Grams
2003
Inside Björk
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003