Sean Penn

Sean Penn is an American actor and filmmaker who came to notice in the early 1980s with Taps and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He built a reputation for intense dramatic roles in films such as At Close Range, Carlito's Way and Dead Man Walking.

He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008), and later received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for One Battle After Another (2025). He also appears in the drama 21 Grams (2003), which is featured on this site.