Date of birth 17 August 1960 Birth place Santa Monica, California. Birth name Sean Justin Penn. Height 5' 8.25 " (173 cm) Sean Penn is a Oscar winning actor whose delivered some amazing roles, and is also the media's well known political activist.

Academic Award Winner, Sean Justin Penn launched his acting career in 1981. He had done over 40 movies, after which he was nominated an Oscar for his role in the Award winning ‘Mystic River’. He was also nominated for Academy Awards for the roles in movies; ‘I am Sam’, ‘Sweet and Lowdown’, and ‘Dead Man Walking’.

His performance in ‘I am Sam’, is considered to be phenomenal, where he plays the role of a mentally handicapped father, who struggles the brutalism of law to keep his child daughter with him. A movie filled with emotion and a stunning role by Sean Penn to bring out his elite acting abilities.

In 1985, Sean stared in the highly acclaimed film ‘The falcon and the Snowman’, in which he played the role of a real time drug dealer, Andrew Daulton Lee. Sean also went on to hire Lee after he was released in 1998, as his personal assistant, as he believed that every human being must be offered a second chance in life. In the early nineties Penn started his career as a director by doing ‘The Indian Runner’. Later he used the acting skills of renowned actor Jack Nicholson to come out with ‘The crossing Guard’ in 1995 and ‘The Pledge’ in 2001.

As his political role in the 2006 phenomenal ‘All the King’s men’, Sean Penn is also an active on various political and social causes. In 2002, Penn placed an ad in the Washington post asking President George W Bush to end the cycle of violence. He later went on various social causes to Iraq and Iran. He also did a documentary on the 9/11 bombing in New York. 

Having a very strong political, acting and Directing career, Sean Penn has risen among many to prove his abilities in various ways to the American public. To date he has been awarded various Academy awards and Golden Globe awards, for his stunning performances.