BIRTHDAYS: Sean Penn (Birthday 17th August), Famous American Actor & Directory, Biography of Sean Pennon Career, Personal Life, Awards & Achievements
Sean Penn An actor, writer, director and producer. Sean Penn was born August 17, 1960, in Burbank, California. Sean Penn grew up in Los Angeles and joined Santa Monica High School, along with associate students and potential actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, and Rob Lowe.
Sean Penn's mother, Eileen Ryan, is an actress who appeared in Magnolia, released in late 1999. Sean Penn father, Leo Penn, who died in 1998, was an actor-turned-director who was blacklisted during the 1940s and 1950s when Sean Penn declined to name names of Communist sympathizers in Hollywood. Sean Penn's brother Christopher was an actor who died in January, and his surviving brother Michael, is a rock musician.
A social and political activist, Sean Penn has publicly denounced the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
Sean Penn: Acting Career
A premature curiosity in filmmaking, particularly directing, guided him to an infatuation for acting, and Sean Penn moved to New York City when Sean Penn was 19 to practice a career as an actor. Sean Penn soon got a part in a Broadway play, Heartland. In 1981, Sean Penn made his first appearance; in the military school play Taps, together with star Timothy Hutton and Tom Cruise.
Sean Penn's infiltrate role came a year later, when Sean Penn played continuously stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli in the high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Sean Penn acquired commendation for his first starring role, in 1983's Bad Boys and for The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), also starring Hutton.
In 1985, Sean Penn increased a complete new measure of recognition when Sean Penn married pop singer Madonna. Their turbulent four year marriage shaped into one gloomy movie, 1986's Shanghai Surprise, and a bombardment of sensationalist headlines. Penn's "bad boy" image only increased with his continued unfriendliness towards the violent paparazzi - Sean Penn served 34 days in prison in 1987 for punching an additional who had attempted to take his picture on the set of the film Colors, co-starring Robert Duvall and directed by Dennis Hopper. Sean Penn and Madonna separated in 1989.
In 1991, two years after earning blather evaluations for his show in Casualties of War (1989), directed by Brian De Palma and co-starring Michael J. Fox, Penn directed his first film, the little seen feature The Indian Runner.
Though Sean Penn had stated Sean Penn was given up acting, Sean Penn was back in front of the camera in 1993, playing a coke-addled criminal lawyer in De Palma's Carlito?s Way, co-starring Al Pacino.
In 1995, Sean Penn appeared as a death row prisoner probing for rescue in the grave and admired success Dead Man Walking, directed by Tim Robbins and co-starring Susan Sarandon.
Sean Penn's commanding performance earned him his first Academy Award recommendation, for Best Actor. That same year, Sean Penn penned, produced, and directed The Crossing Guard, a dark performance starring his boyhood idol, Jack Nicholson.
Sean Penn's edgy good looks and unquestionable aptitude might have secured him a position among Hollywood's A-list leading men; in its place, Sean Penn has mostly mistreated headline roles in big-budget films in favor of definitely unheroic roles in darker, more modest films, with unstable degrees of success.
Sean Penn appeared as an obsessed, envious husband in Nick Cassavetes's she’s So Lovely (1997), co-starring John Travolta and Penn's real-life wife, Robin Wright Penn. Although Sean Penn won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, She's so Lovely did not draw a wide audience.
Sean Penn appeared in two other major films in 1997: the badly received U-Turn, directed by Oliver Stone and co-starring Nick Nolte and Jennifer Lopez, and the hit action crime story The Game, starring Michael Douglas. In Hurlyburly (1998), Sean Penn reprised a role Sean Penn had played on the Los Angeles stage in 1988, co-starring with Kevin Spacey as a atrocious, misogynistic Hollywood agent. In 1998, Sean Penn also appeared in the gravely much-admired World War II drama, The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick.
In 1999, the impulsive Sean Penn took Hollywood by surprise when Sean Penn acquired a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, turning in an additional searing, darkly multifaceted performance as the degenerate jazz guitarist at the center of Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, alongside fellow Oscar-nominee Samantha Morton. In 2000, Sean Penn appeared in the romantic Up in the Villa, with Kristen Scott Thomas, and The Weight of Water.
Sean Penn third directorial feature, the thriller The Pledge, starred Nicholson and Robin Wright Penn. In 2002, Sean Penn appeared opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in I Am Sam, playing a psychologically immobilize man who fights to recover guardianship of his young daughter.
The subsequent year, Sean Penn acted in Clint Eastwood's small town production Mystic River, for which Sean Penn got an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2006, Sean Penn appeared as Willie Stark, an imaginary character based insecurely on Louisiana governor Huey Long, in All the King's Men.
Sean Penn's mother, Eileen Ryan, is an actress who appeared in Magnolia, released in late 1999. Sean Penn father, Leo Penn, who died in 1998, was an actor-turned-director who was blacklisted during the 1940s and 1950s when Sean Penn declined to name names of Communist sympathizers in Hollywood. Sean Penn's brother Christopher was an actor who died in January, and his surviving brother Michael, is a rock musician.
A social and political activist, Sean Penn has publicly denounced the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
Sean Penn: Acting Career
A premature curiosity in filmmaking, particularly directing, guided him to an infatuation for acting, and Sean Penn moved to New York City when Sean Penn was 19 to practice a career as an actor. Sean Penn soon got a part in a Broadway play, Heartland. In 1981, Sean Penn made his first appearance; in the military school play Taps, together with star Timothy Hutton and Tom Cruise.
Sean Penn's infiltrate role came a year later, when Sean Penn played continuously stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli in the high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Sean Penn acquired commendation for his first starring role, in 1983's Bad Boys and for The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), also starring Hutton.
In 1985, Sean Penn increased a complete new measure of recognition when Sean Penn married pop singer Madonna. Their turbulent four year marriage shaped into one gloomy movie, 1986's Shanghai Surprise, and a bombardment of sensationalist headlines. Penn's "bad boy" image only increased with his continued unfriendliness towards the violent paparazzi - Sean Penn served 34 days in prison in 1987 for punching an additional who had attempted to take his picture on the set of the film Colors, co-starring Robert Duvall and directed by Dennis Hopper. Sean Penn and Madonna separated in 1989.
In 1991, two years after earning blather evaluations for his show in Casualties of War (1989), directed by Brian De Palma and co-starring Michael J. Fox, Penn directed his first film, the little seen feature The Indian Runner.
Though Sean Penn had stated Sean Penn was given up acting, Sean Penn was back in front of the camera in 1993, playing a coke-addled criminal lawyer in De Palma's Carlito?s Way, co-starring Al Pacino.
In 1995, Sean Penn appeared as a death row prisoner probing for rescue in the grave and admired success Dead Man Walking, directed by Tim Robbins and co-starring Susan Sarandon.
Sean Penn's commanding performance earned him his first Academy Award recommendation, for Best Actor. That same year, Sean Penn penned, produced, and directed The Crossing Guard, a dark performance starring his boyhood idol, Jack Nicholson.
Sean Penn's edgy good looks and unquestionable aptitude might have secured him a position among Hollywood's A-list leading men; in its place, Sean Penn has mostly mistreated headline roles in big-budget films in favor of definitely unheroic roles in darker, more modest films, with unstable degrees of success.
Sean Penn appeared as an obsessed, envious husband in Nick Cassavetes's she’s So Lovely (1997), co-starring John Travolta and Penn's real-life wife, Robin Wright Penn. Although Sean Penn won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, She's so Lovely did not draw a wide audience.
Sean Penn appeared in two other major films in 1997: the badly received U-Turn, directed by Oliver Stone and co-starring Nick Nolte and Jennifer Lopez, and the hit action crime story The Game, starring Michael Douglas. In Hurlyburly (1998), Sean Penn reprised a role Sean Penn had played on the Los Angeles stage in 1988, co-starring with Kevin Spacey as a atrocious, misogynistic Hollywood agent. In 1998, Sean Penn also appeared in the gravely much-admired World War II drama, The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick.
In 1999, the impulsive Sean Penn took Hollywood by surprise when Sean Penn acquired a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, turning in an additional searing, darkly multifaceted performance as the degenerate jazz guitarist at the center of Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, alongside fellow Oscar-nominee Samantha Morton. In 2000, Sean Penn appeared in the romantic Up in the Villa, with Kristen Scott Thomas, and The Weight of Water.
Sean Penn third directorial feature, the thriller The Pledge, starred Nicholson and Robin Wright Penn. In 2002, Sean Penn appeared opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in I Am Sam, playing a psychologically immobilize man who fights to recover guardianship of his young daughter.
The subsequent year, Sean Penn acted in Clint Eastwood's small town production Mystic River, for which Sean Penn got an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2006, Sean Penn appeared as Willie Stark, an imaginary character based insecurely on Louisiana governor Huey Long, in All the King's Men.
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