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Who is Sean Penn?

by Ratan Srivastava
Sean Penn

Sean Penn is indeed an actor, director, screenwriter, as well as producer from the United States. For his parts inside the mystery film Mystic River (2003) as well as the biopic Milk, he has received two Academy Awards (2008).

Penn began performing on television with such a cameo in episode 112 of Little House upon that Prairie, helmed by his father Leo Penn, on December 4, 1974. In the 1980s, he had a varied range of movie appearances, notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) as well as Bad Boys, after making his acting debut inside the drama Taps (1981). Penn’s performances with in crime dramas At Close Range (1986), State of Grace (1990), as well as Carlito’s Way (1991) earned him critical acclaim (1993). Well with the drama Dead Man Walking, about which he received his first Academy Award nomination as well as the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival, he established himself as just a notable lead role.

Penn had two more Oscar nominations for Woody Allen’s comedy-drama Sweet and Lowdown as well as the drama I Am Sam, prior to actually winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor for Mystic River in 2003 as well as his second for Milk in 2008. He’s previously received a Best Actor Award there at Cannes Film Festival for Nick Cassavetes’ She’s So Lovely, as well as two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for Hurlyburly (1998) as well as 21 Grams.

Penn made his feature movie directorial debut well With Indian Runner (1991), which was succeeded by The Crossing Guard (1995) as Well as the Pledge (2001), both of which garnered positive reviews. Penn helmed one of it’s 11 segments of the compilation movie 11’09″01 September 11, which was prepared in reaction to the September 11 attacks.

His fourth feature film, Into the Wild, a biographical survival drama, received critical praise as well as two Academy Award nominations.

Penn’s political and social involvement includes his criticisms of such George W. Bush government, his meetings well with presidents of Cuba as well as Venezuela, as well as his humanitarian assistance inside the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as well as the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

The Indian Runner (1991), a crime drama movie based on Bruce Springsteen’s song “Highway Patrolman” as from album Nebraska, was Penn’s directorial debut (1982). He also helmed music videos for Shania Twain’s “Dance with one Who Brought You,” Lyle Lovett’s “North Dakota” (1993), and Peter Gabriel’s “The Barry Williams Show,” among others. Since then, he’s made three additional films, all of which have garnered positive reviews from critics: the indie thriller The Crossing Guard (1995), the mystery picture The Pledge, and the drama The Pledge (2001).

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