Sean Penn
Hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, Sean Penn earned multiple Oscar nominations for his onscreen intensity and proved a powerful filmmaking talent at the helm of his own character-driven dramas like "The Crossing Guard" (1995) and "The Pledge" (2001) - all the while remaining the ultimate Hollywood outsider. Penn originally broke through with his iconic turn as stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982), but he established himself as a serious actor with "Bad Boys" (1983), only to be hounded by paparazzi due to his high-profile, short-lived marriage to Madonna, which resulted in the box-office dud "Shanghai Surprise" (1985) and violent run-ins with photographers. He entered a long and slightly less turbulent marriage to Robin Wright, while earning acclaim as a smarmy lawyer in "Carlito's Way" (1993) and a death row inmate in "Dead Man Walking" (1995). After "Sweet and Lowdown" (1999) and "I Am Sam" (2001), Penn won the Oscar for his portrayal of a streetwise father out to avenge his daughter's murder in "Mystic River" (2003). Meanwhile, he traded his bad-boy persona for political outspokenness, which included calling for the impeachment of President Bush while rankling conservatives for hobnobbing with reviled world leaders. Still, Penn continued to deliver onscreen with "Milk" (2008), though his refusal to play the Hollywood game earned him an unshakable reputation as hostile and arrogant. Despite such opinions, no one could deny that Penn's work was consistently of the highest caliber, making him a modern-day Marlon Brando.
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Sean Penn
Filmography
Movies
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90% | No Score Yet | September 5 | Producer | - | 2024 |
77% |
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Daddio | Clark (Character) | $978.8K | 2023 |
45% |
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Asphalt City |
Gene Rutkovsky (Character), Producer |
$216.9K | 2023 |
47% |
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Superpower |
Self, Director, Producer |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | FREE PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIME: Superpower(FREE FULL MOVIE) (TV-MA) |
Director, Producer |
- | 2023 |
90% |
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Licorice Pizza | Jack Holden (Character) | $17.3M | 2021 |
40% |
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Flag Day |
John Vogel (Character), Director |
$423.4K | 2021 |
100% | No Score Yet | Citizen Penn | Self | - | 2020 |
39% |
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The Professor and the Madman | Dr. William Chester Minor (Character) | - | 2019 |
8% |
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The Last Face | Director | - | 2016 |
44% |
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The Angry Birds Movie | Terence (Voice) | $107.5M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Three Hikers | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
67% |
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Sweet Micky for President | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
15% |
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The Gunman |
Jim Terrier (Character), Screenwriter, Producer |
$10.6M | 2015 |
50% |
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The Human Experiment |
Narrator, Executive Producer |
- | 2013 |
52% |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Sean O'Connell (Character) | $58.2M | 2013 |
30% |
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Gangster Squad | Mickey Cohen (Character) | $46.0M | 2013 |
66% |
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This Must Be the Place | Cheyenne (Character) | $142.2K | 2011 |
85% |
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The Tree of Life | Jack (Character) | $13.3M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tree of Life | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
78% |
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Fair Game | Joseph Wilson (Character) | $9.5M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dirty Hands Caravan | Self | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deflating the Elephant: Framed Messages Behind Conservative Dialogue | Narrator | - | 2009 |
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Witch Hunt |
Narrator, Executive Producer |
- | 2008 |
93% |
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Milk | Harvey Milk (Character) | $31.8M | 2008 |
50% |
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What Just Happened? | Sean Penn (Character) | $1.1M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death | Narrator | - | 2007 |
83% |
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Into the Wild |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$18.4M | 2007 |
88% |
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War Made Easy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
12% |
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All the King's Men | Willie Stark (Character) | $7.2M | 2006 |
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
57% |
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The Interpreter | Tobin Keller (Character) | $72.5M | 2005 |
67% |
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Samuel Byck (Character) | $697.8K | 2004 |
54% |
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Pauly Shore Is Dead | Self | - | 2004 |
19% |
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It's All About Love | Marciello (Character) | - | 2003 |
89% |
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This So-Called Disaster |
Himself / |
$45.2K | 2003 |
80% |
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21 Grams | Paul Rivers (Character) | $16.2M | 2003 |
89% |
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Mystic River | Jimmy Markum (Character) | $90.1M | 2003 |
77% |
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11-09-01: September 11 |
Director, Writer |
$120.0K | 2002 |
92% |
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Dogtown and Z-Boys | Narrator | $1.3M | 2001 |
35% |
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I Am Sam | Sam Dawson (Character) | $40.3M | 2001 |
78% |
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The Pledge |
Director, Producer |
$19.7M | 2001 |
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The Beaver Trilogy | Groovin' Larry (segment Beaver Kid 2) (Character) | - | 2001 |
34% |
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The Weight of Water | Thomas (Character) | $102.6K | 2000 |
74% |
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Before Night Falls | Cuco Sanchez (Character) | $4.2M | 2000 |
45% |
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Up at the Villa | Rowley Flint (Character) | $2.9M | 2000 |
77% |
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Sweet and Lowdown | Emmet Ray (Character) | $4.2M | 1999 |
80% |
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The Thin Red Line | Sgt. Welsh (Character) | $36.4M | 1998 |
58% |
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Hurlyburly | Eddie (Character) | $1.8M | 1998 |
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Loved |
Man on the Hill (Character), Producer |
- | 1997 |
77% |
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The Game | Conrad Van Orton (Character) | $48.3M | 1997 |
66% |
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She's So Lovely |
Eddie Quinn (Character), Executive Producer |
$7.3M | 1997 |
59% |
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U-Turn | Bobby Cooper (Character) | $6.6M | 1997 |
29% |
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Hugo Pool | Strange Hitchhiker (Character) | - | 1997 |
95% |
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Dead Man Walking | Matthew Poncelet (Character) | $37.1M | 1995 |
76% |
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The Crossing Guard |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$771.7K | 1995 |
84% |
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Carlito's Way | David Kleinfeld (Character) | $36.5M | 1993 |
72% |
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The Indian Runner |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$152.9K | 1991 |
85% |
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State of Grace | Terry Noonan (Character) | $1.9M | 1990 |
48% |
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We're No Angels | Jim (Character) | $10.0M | 1989 |
84% |
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Casualties of War | Meserve (Character) | $17.0M | 1989 |
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Cool Blue | Phil the Plumber (Character) | - | 1988 |
20% |
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Judgment in Berlin | Guenther X (Character) | $218.4K | 1988 |
77% |
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Colors | Officer Danny McGavin (Character) | $46.1M | 1988 |
20% |
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Shanghai Surprise | Glendon Wasey (Character) | $2.2M | 1986 |
87% |
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At Close Range | Brad Whitewood Jr. (Character) | $560.7K | 1986 |
83% |
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The Falcon and the Snowman | Daulton Lee (Character) | $14.9M | 1985 |
0% |
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Crackers | Don Dillard (Character) | - | 1984 |
60% |
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Racing With the Moon | Henry 'Hopper' Nash (Character) | - | 1984 |
89% |
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Bad Boys | Mick O'Brien (Character) | - | 1983 |
78% |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Jeff Spicoli (Character) | - | 1982 |
68% |
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Taps | Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer (Character) | - | 1981 |
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The Killing of Randy Webster | Don Fremont (Character) | - | 1981 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2015 2018-2020 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | 67% | C*A*U*G*H*T | Unknown (Character) | 2023 |
89% | 75% | Gaslit | John Mitchell (Character) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020-2021 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016 2018 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2015 2018-2019 |
66% | 75% | The First | Tom Hagerty (Character) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy | Himself (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 60 Minutes | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2007 |
65% | 66% | Two and a Half Men | Sean Penn (Guest Star) | 2004 |
78% | 93% | Friends | Eric (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Kid (Guest Star) | 1974 |