| Sean Penn  Born: 17-Aug-1960
Birthplace: Burbank, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Activist
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fast Times at Ridgemont High Sean Penn is a craggy-faced actor and loudspoken liberal activist. He played the stoner Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, married and divorced Madonna, has famously brawled with paparazzi, denounced George W. Bush and Bill O'Reilly as traitors, won an Oscar for Mystic River, and scolded Trey Parker and Matt Stone for making Team America: World Police.
Penn's father was a TV director, and his mother was an actress. Growing up in Hollywood, young Penn befriended Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, whose father Martin Sheen lived around the corner. Penn made his professional acting debut at 14, in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie directed by his father.
He has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, but left his pistol behind when he went to Iraq before and after its 2003 war with America. While in the Middle East, Penn spoke against war and filed reports for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Penn has also written and directed two films, The Indian Runner and The Crossing Guard, and directed another, The Pledge. All were generally well-received by critics, but barely noticed at all by audiences.
Father: Leo Penn (TV director, b. 1921, d. 1998 cancer)
Mother: Eileen Ryan (actress)
Brother: Michael Penn (musician, b. 1958)
Brother: Chris Penn (actor, b. 1962, d. 2006)
Girlfriend: Elizabeth McGovern (actress, dated 1983-84, broken engagement)
Girlfriend: Susan Sarandon (actress, dated 1984)
Wife: Madonna (singer; m. 16-Aug-1985, div. 10-Jan-1989)
Wife: Robin Wright Penn (cohabited 1990-96, m. 27-April-1996, sep. 2007, recon. Apr-2008)
Girlfriend: Jewel (singer, dated in 1990s, while estranged from Wright)
Daughter: Dylan Frances Penn (b. 13-Apr-1991, with Wright)
Son: Hopper Jack Penn (b. 6-Aug-1993, wiith Wright)
Girlfriend: Petra Nemcova (supermodel; dated 2008, while estranged from Wright)
High School: Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, CA
University: Santa Monica College
Kucinich for President
MoveOn.org
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Media and Arts Advisory Board
Oscar for Best Actor 2003 for Mystic River
Assault Nashville, TN Jul-1985
Battery Nashville, TN Jul-1985
Battery Apr-1986
Violating Parole 1987
Domestic Violence
Attempted Murder Macau 1986
Pardoned by Portugal for Macau incident
Inmate: Los Angeles County Jail
Issued Concealed Carry Permit Ross, CA (Jan-2002)
Irish Ancestry Maternal
Lithuanian Ancestry Paternal
Russian Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
Risk Factors: Smoking
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Into the Wild (1-Sep-2007)
September 11 (5-Sep-2002)
The Pledge (9-Jan-2001)
The Crossing Guard (10-Sep-1995)
The Indian Runner (7-Sep-1991)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
All the King's Men (10-Sep-2006)
The Interpreter (14-Apr-2005)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (17-May-2004)
21 Grams (Aug-2003)
Mystic River (23-May-2003)
Bukowski: Born into This (18-Jan-2003) Himself
It's All About Love (10-Jan-2003)
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) Himself
I Am Sam (3-Dec-2001)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (19-Jan-2001) Narrator [VOICE]
The Weight of Water (9-Sep-2000)
Before Night Falls (3-Sep-2000)
Up at the Villa (5-May-2000)
Sweet and Lowdown (4-Sep-1999)
The Thin Red Line (25-Dec-1998)
Hurlyburly (11-Sep-1998)
Hugo Pool (12-Dec-1997)
The Game (12-Sep-1997)
U Turn (27-Aug-1997)
She's So Lovely (15-May-1997)
Loved (Apr-1997)
Dead Man Walking (29-Dec-1995)
Carlito's Way (10-Nov-1993)
The Last Party (27-Aug-1993) Himself
State of Grace (14-Sep-1990)
We're No Angels (15-Dec-1989)
Casualties of War (18-Aug-1989)
Judgment in Berlin (6-May-1988)
Colors (15-Apr-1988)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (Oct-1987) [VOICE]
Shanghai Surprise (29-Aug-1986)
At Close Range (18-Apr-1986)
The Falcon and the Snowman (25-Jan-1985)
Racing with the Moon (23-Mar-1984)
Crackers (Feb-1984)
Bad Boys (25-Mar-1983)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (13-Aug-1982)
Taps (11-Dec-1981)
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