Sean Penn

Sean Penn

Acting

Born August 17, 1960 · Santa Monica, California, USA

11 films as director · Active 1991–2023

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…

Known for

Family Guy

Family Guy

1999

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

Friends

Friends

1994

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

1975

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

1975

Directed(11)

Superpower

2023Superpower★ 5.5

2021Flag Day★ 5.8

The Last Face

2017The Last Face★ 5.5

Into the Wild

2007Into the Wild★ 7.8

September 11

2002September 11★ 6.4

The Pledge

2001The Pledge★ 6.6

The Crossing Guard

1995The Crossing Guard★ 6.0

The Indian Runner

1991The Indian Runner★ 6.5

—Untitled Jamal Khashoggi Project

—Untitled Sean Penn Film

—Untitled Sean Penn Film

Acting(146)

2026Samuel Bayer Beyond the FrameSelf

2026Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After AnotherSelf

2025Variety & CNN Actors on ActorsSelf

2025Animals in War

2025In Thanks We TrustSelf

2025One Battle After AnotherCol. Steven J. Lockjaw

2025aka Charlie SheenSelf

2025Everybody's Live with John MulaneySelf - Actor and Founder of CORE

2024Becoming MadonnaSelf (archive footage)

2024Bruce Springsteen: The America WhispererSelf : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage)

2024DaddioClark

2024BRATSSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

2024Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'AmériqueSelf

2023Asphalt CityGene Rutkovsky

2023SuperpowerSelf

2022GaslitJohn Mitchell

2021Licorice PizzaJack Holden

2021Flag DayJohn Vogel

2021ValSelf (archive)

2020Citizen PennHimself

2020Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table ReadPizza Guy

2019Lights Out with David SpadeSelf

2019The Professor and the MadmanDr. William Chester Minor

2018The FirstTom Haggerty

2018Firing Line with Margaret HooverSelf

2017Sound of SunMan

2017Mad Hannans

2016The Angry Birds MovieTerence (voice)

2016El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the JungleSelf

2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf

2015The Human ExperimentNarrator

2015The GunmanJim Terrier

2015Sweet Micky for PresidentSelf

2015Beaver Trilogy Part IVHimself (archive footage)

2014Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless StoryHimself

2014Holbrook/Twain: An American OdysseySelf

2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf - Guest

2014The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the BeatlesSelf

2013The Secret Life of Walter MittySean O'Connell

2013Gangster SquadMickey Cohen

2012AmericansCommie

2012Haiti Untold

2011Woody Allen: A DocumentarySelf

2011This Must Be the PlaceCheyenne

2011The Tree of LifeJack

2011Phil Ochs: There But for FortuneSelf

2010I'm Still HereSean Penn (uncredited)

2010Fair GameJoseph Wilson

2009The People SpeakSelf

2009Deflating the ElephantNarrator

2008MilkHarvey Milk

2008What Just HappenedSean Penn

2008Witch HuntHimself (Narrator)

2008VH1 Rock Honors: The WhoSelf

2008Between Two Ferns with Zach GalifianakisSelf

2007War Made EasyNarrator (Voice)

2007Brando: The DocumentarySelf

2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf

2006Buy the Ticket, Take the RideSelf

2006All the King's MenWillie Stark

2006When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four ActsSelf

2006VH1 Rock Honors

2005IconoclastsSelf

2005The Reichen ShowSelf

2005The InterpreterTobin Keller

2004The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie EditingSelf

2004Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is WildSelf(archive footage) (uncredited)

2004Mystic River: Beneath the SurfaceSelf

2004The Assassination of Richard NixonSamuel Bicke

2004Dennis Hopper: The Decisive MomentsSelf

200421 Grams: In FragmentsSelf

200321 GramsPaul Rivers

2003Mystic River: From Page to ScreenSelf

2003Viva La Bam

2003Mystic RiverJimmy Markum

2003Two and a Half MenSean Penn

2003Inside BjörkSelf

2003Celebrities UncensoredSelf

2003Pauly Shore Is DeadSean Penn

2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf

2003Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)Self

2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self

2003Bukowski: Born Into ThisSelf

2003It's All About LoveMarciello

2003This So-Called DisasterRay

2002Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence MalickSelf

2002Searching for Debra WingerSelf (uncredited)

2002Dogtown and Z-BoysNarrator

2001I Am SamSam Dawson

2001The Weight of WaterThomas Janes

2000Curb Your EnthusiasmSean Penn

2000A Constant ForgeSelf

2000Before Night FallsCuco Sanchez

2000Beaver Trilogy"Groovin' Larry" Huff

2000Up at the VillaRowley Flint

1999Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1999Sweet and LowdownEmmet Ray

1999The Early ShowSelf

1999Being John MalkovichSean Penn (uncredited)

1999Where Are They Now?Self

1999Family GuySean Penn (voice)

1998HurlyburlyEddie

1998The Thin Red Line1st Sgt. Edward Welsh

1997Hugo PoolStrange Hitchhiker

1997LovedMan on the Hill (Michael)

1997U TurnBobby Cooper

1997The GameConrad Van Orton

1997She's So LovelyEddie Quinn

1997The ViewSelf

1995Dead Man WalkingMatthew Poncelet

1994Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of FameHimself

1994FriendsEric

1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf

1993Carlito's WayDavid Kleinfeld

1993The Last PartySelf

1993Madonna: The Name of the GameSelf

1992Cruise Control

1992The Larry Sanders ShowSean Penn

1990State of GraceTerry

1990Cool BluePhil the Plumber (uncredited)

1989Casualties of WarSgt. Tony Meserve

1989We're No AngelsJim

1988Judgment in BerlinGuenther X

1988ColorsDanny McGavin

1987Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam(voice)

1986Shanghai SurpriseGlendon Wasey

1986At Close RangeBradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.

1985The Falcon and the SnowmanDaulton Lee

1984Racing with the MoonHenry 'Hopper' Nash

1984CrackersDillard

1983Risky BusinessPassenger in Car (uncredited)

1983SummerspellBuddy

1983Bad BoysMick O'Brien

1982Fast Times at Ridgemont HighJeff Spicoli

1981TapsCadet Captain Alex Dwyer

1981The Beaver Kid 2Groovin' Larry

1981The Killing of Randy WebsterDon Fremont

1981Hellinger's LawBit Part (uncredited)

1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host

1974Little House on the PrairieBoy (uncredited)

1965aspekteSelf

1953The OscarsSelf

1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Presenter