Sean Penn Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Sean Penn filmography covers 60 movie titles and 12 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Sean Penn movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Taps (1981) as Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) as Jeff Spicoli
• Bad Boys (1983) as Mick O'Brien
• Risky Business (1983) as Passenger in Car (uncredited)
• Crackers (1984) as Dillard
• Racing with the Moon (1984) as Henry 'Hopper' Nash
• The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) as Daulton Lee
• At Close Range (1986) as Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.
• Shanghai Surprise (1986) as Glendon Wasey
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) as (voice)
• Colors (1988) as Danny McGavin
• Casualties of War (1989) as Sgt. Tony Meserve
• We're No Angels (1989) as Jim
• State of Grace (1990) as Terry
• Carlito's Way (1993) as David Kleinfeld
• Dead Man Walking (1995) as Matthew Poncelet
• Hugo Pool (1997) as Strange Hitchhiker
• She's So Lovely (1997) as Eddie Quinn
• The Game (1997) as Conrad Van Orton
• U Turn (1997) as Bobby Cooper
• Hurlyburly (1998) as Eddie
• The Thin Red Line (1998) as 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
• Being John Malkovich (1999) as Sean Penn (uncredited)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999) as Emmet Ray
• Beaver Trilogy (2000) as "Groovin' Larry" Huff
• Before Night Falls (2000) as Cuco Sanchez
• Up at the Villa (2000) as Rowley Flint
• I Am Sam (2001) as Sam Dawson
• The Weight of Water (2001) as Thomas Janes
• Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002) as Narrator
• 21 Grams (2003) as Paul Rivers
• Bukowski: Born Into This (2003) as Self
• It's All About Love (2003) as Marciello
• Mystic River (2003) as Jimmy Markum
• Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) as Sean Penn
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) as Samuel Bicke
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004) as Self
• The Interpreter (2005) as Tobin Keller
• All the King's Men (2006) as Willie Stark
• War Made Easy (2007) as Narrator (Voice)
• Milk (2008) as Harvey Milk
• What Just Happened (2008) as Sean Penn
• Witch Hunt (2008) as Himself (Narrator)
• Fair Game (2010) as Joseph Wilson
• I'm Still Here (2010) as Sean Penn (uncredited)
• The Tree of Life (2011) as Jack
• This Must Be the Place (2011) as Cheyenne
• Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011) as Self
• Gangster Squad (2013) as Mickey Cohen
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) as Sean O'Connell
• The Gunman (2015) as Jim Terrier
• The Angry Birds Movie (2016) as Terence (voice)
• The Professor and the Madman (2019) as Dr. William Chester Minor
• Flag Day (2021) as John Vogel
• Licorice Pizza (2021) as Jack Holden
• Asphalt City (2023) as Gene Rutkovsky
• Superpower (2023) as Self
• BRATS (2024) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Daddio (2024) as Clark
• One Battle After Another (2025) as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw

Sean Penn television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Sean Penn; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• aka Charlie Sheen as Self
• Curb Your Enthusiasm as Sean Penn
• Family Guy as Sean Penn (voice)
• Friends as Eric
• Gaslit as John Mitchell
• Little House on the Prairie as Boy (uncredited)
• The First as Tom Haggerty
• The Larry Sanders Show as Sean Penn
• The Oscars as Self
• Two and a Half Men as Sean Penn
• Viva La Bam
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Sean Penn's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.