Sean Penn
Actor, Celebrity
1960 –
Who is Sean Penn?
Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director, also known for his left-wing political and social activism. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River and Milk, 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 received another two Oscar nominations for Sweet and Lowdown and I Am Sam, 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, and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for Hurlyburly and 21 Grams.
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- Born
- Aug 17, 1960
Los Angeles County - Also known as
- Sean Justin Penn
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Robin Wright
(1996/04/27 - 2010/07/22) - Madonna
(1985/08/16 - 1989/09/14) - Pamela Springsteen
- Robin Wright
(1991 - 1996)
- Robin Wright
- Children
- Religion
- Agnosticism
- Ethnicity
- Irish American
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Santa Monica High School
- Santa Monica College
- Employment
- Co-owner, Man Ray
- Lived in
- Santa Monica
- Burbank
- Ross
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on July 23, 2013
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