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Sean Penn (born August 17, 1960) is a American film actor noted for his inflammatory and sometimes violent personality. Penn is the son of director Leo Penn, who was blacklisted during McCarthyism for refusing to testify. He has two brothers: actor Chris Penn and musician Michael Penn.
Penn has starred in over 40 movies and has won an Academy Award(Oscar) for Mystic River. He has also been nominated for three other Academy Awards (for I Am Sam, Sweet and Lowdown and Dead Man Walking).
Penn lives in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. Once married to pop icon Madonna (August 16, 1985 to January 10, 1989), Penn is currently married to actress Robin Wright, whom he wed on April 27, 1996. They have two children together, born before the two were married.
On October 18, 2002, Penn placed an $56,000 advertisement in the Washington Post asking President Bush to end a cycle of violence. It was written as an open letter and referred to the planned attack on Iraq and the War on Terror. In the letter, Penn also criticised the Bush administration for its "deconstruction of civil liberties" and its "simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil." Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002, largely eschewing meetings with the press.
On April 10, 2003, Penn's limited-edition 1987 Buick Grand National, with two firearms in the trunk, was stolen in Berkeley, California. Penn came under criticism that his gas-guzzling car and gun ownership did not jibe with his advocacy of liberal causes.
Sean Penn Filmography
Actor
• Blood Work/Mystic River (2005)
• The Interpreter (2005)
• Secondhand Lions/I Am Sam (2005)
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
• Bukowski: Born into This (2004)
• It's All About Love (2004)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Mystic River (2003)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (2002)
• The Weight of Water (2002)
• Beaver Trilogy (2001)
• Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
• I Am Sam (2001)
• Before Night Falls (2000)
• Up at the Villa (2000)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
• Hurlyburly (1998)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• The Game (1997)
• Hugo Pool (1997)
• She's So Lovely (1997)
• U-Turn (1997)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Carlito's Way (1993)
• State of Grace (1990)
• Casualties of War (1989)
• We're No Angels (1989)
• Colors (1988)
• Cool Blue (1988)
• Judgment in Berlin (1988)
• At Close Range (1986)
• Shanghai Surprise (1986)
• The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
• Crackers (1984)
• Racing With the Moon (1984)
• Bad Boys (1983)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)
• Taps (1981)
Cameo
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
Director
• The Pledge (2001)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
• The Indian Runner (1991)
Featured
• Bukowski: Born into This (2004)
Guest
• Viva La Bam - The Complete Second and Third Seasons: Uncensored (2004)
Narrator
• Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Producer
• The Pledge (2001)
• She's So Lovely (1997)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
Screenwriter
• The Pledge (2001)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
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