Sean Penn: movies and TV shows
Sean Penn has 185 credits in the archive: 146 films and 39 TV series, from 1944 to 2026. Highest rated: Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another (10.0/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2026 · busiest year: 2003 (15 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another | Self | Film | 10.0 | 65 |
| 2026 | Samuel Bayer Beyond the Frame | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 2025 | One Battle After Another | Col. Steven J. Lockjaw | Film | 7.3 | 64 |
| 2025 | Everybody's Live with John Mulaney | Self - Actor and Founder of CORE | TV | 6.7 | 64 |
| 2025 | Variety & CNN Actors on Actors | Self | TV | 5.5 | 64 |
| 2025 | Manas | Film | 8.3 | 64 | |
| 2025 | aka Charlie Sheen | Self | TV | 7.5 | 64 |
| 2025 | Animals in War | Film | 8.0 | 64 | |
| 2025 | Words of War | Film | 6.7 | 64 | |
| 2025 | In Thanks We Trust | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 2024 | Becoming Madonna | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 2024 | September 5 | Film | 7.0 | 63 | |
| 2024 | BRATS | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2024 | Daddio | Clark | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 2024 | Bruce Springsteen: The America Whisperer | Self : Actor, Director & Writer (Archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 2024 | Sean Penn, l'enfant terrible de l'Amérique | Self | Film | 7.5 | 63 |
| 2023 | C*A*U*G*H*T | TV | 4.9 | 62 | |
| 2023 | Gonzo Girl | Film | 2.0 | 62 | |
| 2023 | Asphalt City | Gene Rutkovsky | Film | 6.2 | 62 |
| 2023 | Asphalt City | Film | 6.2 | 62 | |
| 2023 | Superpower | Self | Film | 5.5 | 62 |
| 2023 | Superpower | Film | 5.5 | 62 | |
| 2022 | Gaslit | John Mitchell | TV | 6.9 | 61 |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Jack Holden | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2021 | kid 90 | Film | 7.0 | 60 | |
| 2021 | Flag Day | John Vogel | Film | 5.8 | 60 |
| 2021 | Flag Day | Film | 5.8 | 60 | |
| 2021 | Flag Day | Film | 5.8 | 60 | |
| 2020 | Citizen Penn | Himself | Film | — | 59 |
| 2020 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A Virtual Table Read | Pizza Guy | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 2019 | Lights Out with David Spade | Self | TV | 5.6 | 58 |
| 2019 | The Professor and the Madman | Dr. William Chester Minor | Film | 7.1 | 58 |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | TV | 8.0 | 57 | |
| 2018 | The First | Tom Haggerty | TV | 6.0 | 57 |
| 2017 | The Last Face | Film | 5.5 | 56 | |
| 2017 | Mad Hannans | Film | — | 56 | |
| 2017 | Sound of Sun | Man | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | Terence (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 2016 | El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle | Self | Film | 4.8 | 55 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | TV | 6.1 | 54 |
| 2015 | The Gunman | Jim Terrier | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 2015 | The Gunman | Film | 5.8 | 54 | |
| 2015 | The Gunman | Film | 5.8 | 54 | |
| 2015 | The Human Experiment | Narrator | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2015 | The Human Experiment | Film | 6.5 | 54 | |
| 2015 | Beaver Trilogy Part IV | Himself (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 54 |
| 2015 | Sweet Micky for President | Self | Film | 6.8 | 54 |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | TV | 5.8 | 53 |
| 2014 | Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | Self | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2014 | The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles | Self | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2014 | Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story | Himself | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 2013 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Sean O'Connell | Film | 7.2 | 52 |
| 2013 | Gangster Squad | Mickey Cohen | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 2012 | Americans | Commie | Film | 4.0 | 51 |
| 2012 | Americans | Film | 4.0 | 51 | |
| 2012 | Haiti Untold | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Jack | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 2011 | This Must Be the Place | Cheyenne | Film | 7.0 | 50 |
| 2011 | Woody Allen: A Documentary | Self | Film | 6.9 | 50 |
| 2011 | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Self | Film | 6.6 | 50 |
| 2010 | I'm Still Here | Sean Penn (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 49 |
| 2010 | Fair Game | Joseph Wilson | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Film | 6.5 | 48 | |
| 2009 | The People Speak | Self | Film | 7.2 | 48 |
| 2009 | Deflating the Elephant | Narrator | Film | — | 48 |
| 2008 | Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis | Self | TV | 7.5 | 47 |
| 2008 | Milk | Harvey Milk | Film | 7.2 | 47 |
| 2008 | What Just Happened | Sean Penn | Film | 5.4 | 47 |
| 2008 | Witch Hunt | Himself (Narrator) | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 2008 | VH1 Rock Honors: The Who | Self | Film | — | 47 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 46 |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Film | 7.8 | 46 | |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Film | 7.8 | 46 | |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Film | 7.8 | 46 | |
| 2007 | Brando: The Documentary | Self | TV | 4.5 | 46 |
| 2007 | Brando | Self | Film | 6.8 | 46 |
| 2007 | War Made Easy | Narrator (Voice) | Film | 7.2 | 46 |
| 2006 | All the King's Men | Willie Stark | Film | 5.8 | 45 |
| 2006 | VH1 Rock Honors | TV | 7.0 | 45 | |
| 2006 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Self | TV | 7.5 | 45 |
| 2006 | Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Self | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 2005 | The Reichen Show | Self | TV | 4.8 | 44 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Tobin Keller | Film | 6.3 | 44 |
| 2005 | Iconoclasts | Self | TV | 7.5 | 44 |
| 2004 | The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing | Self | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 2004 | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Samuel Bicke | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 2004 | 21 Grams: In Fragments | Self | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 2004 | Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild | Self(archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 2.0 | 43 |
| 2004 | Mystic River: Beneath the Surface | Self | Film | 9.5 | 43 |
| 2004 | Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments | Self | Film | 8.3 | 43 |
| 2003 | Two and a Half Men | Sean Penn | TV | 7.5 | 42 |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | TV | 6.1 | 42 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV | 5.3 | 42 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 42 |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Jimmy Markum | Film | 7.7 | 42 |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | Paul Rivers | Film | 7.3 | 42 |
| 2003 | Viva La Bam | TV | 6.6 | 42 | |
| 2003 | Pauly Shore Is Dead | Sean Penn | Film | 4.4 | 42 |
| 2003 | It's All About Love | Marciello | Film | 5.5 | 42 |
| 2003 | Bukowski: Born Into This | Self | Film | 6.8 | 42 |
| 2003 | Inside Björk | Self | Film | 8.6 | 42 |
| 2003 | This So-Called Disaster | Ray | Film | 5.3 | 42 |
| 2003 | Mystic River: From Page to Screen | Self | Film | 10.0 | 42 |
| 2003 | Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) | Self | Film | 6.7 | 42 |
| 2003 | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | TV | 4.8 | 42 |
| 2002 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 2002 | September 11 | Film | 6.4 | 41 | |
| 2002 | September 11 | Film | 6.4 | 41 | |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Self (uncredited) | Film | 6.4 | 41 |
| 2002 | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 2001 | I Am Sam | Sam Dawson | Film | 7.6 | 40 |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Film | 6.6 | 40 | |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Film | 6.6 | 40 | |
| 2001 | The Weight of Water | Thomas Janes | Film | 5.5 | 40 |
| 2000 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Sean Penn | TV | 8.0 | 39 |
| 2000 | Beaver Trilogy | "Groovin' Larry" Huff | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 2000 | Before Night Falls | Cuco Sanchez | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 2000 | Up at the Villa | Rowley Flint | Film | 5.3 | 39 |
| 2000 | A Constant Forge | Self | Film | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Sean Penn (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 38 |
| 1999 | Where Are They Now? | Self | TV | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Sean Penn (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 38 |
| 1999 | Sweet and Lowdown | Emmet Ray | Film | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1999 | Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Film | 6.0 | 38 | |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh | Film | 7.4 | 37 |
| 1998 | Hurlyburly | Eddie | Film | 5.5 | 37 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 36 |
| 1997 | The Game | Conrad Van Orton | Film | 7.6 | 36 |
| 1997 | U Turn | Bobby Cooper | Film | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1997 | Hugo Pool | Strange Hitchhiker | Film | 5.3 | 36 |
| 1997 | She's So Lovely | Eddie Quinn | Film | 5.9 | 36 |
| 1997 | She's So Lovely | Film | 5.9 | 36 | |
| 1997 | Loved | Man on the Hill (Michael) | Film | 4.4 | 36 |
| 1997 | Loved | Film | 4.4 | 36 | |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Matthew Poncelet | Film | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Film | 6.0 | 34 | |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Film | 6.0 | 34 | |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Film | 6.0 | 34 | |
| 1994 | Friends | Eric | TV | 8.4 | 33 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 33 |
| 1994 | Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame | Himself | Film | — | 33 |
| 1993 | Carlito's Way | David Kleinfeld | Film | 7.8 | 32 |
| 1993 | The Last Party | Self | Film | 5.2 | 32 |
| 1993 | Madonna: The Name of the Game | Self | Film | — | 32 |
| 1992 | The Larry Sanders Show | Sean Penn | TV | 7.7 | 31 |
| 1992 | Cruise Control | Film | 5.5 | 31 | |
| 1991 | The Indian Runner | Film | 6.6 | 30 | |
| 1991 | The Indian Runner | Film | 6.6 | 30 | |
| 1990 | The Word | TV | 6.0 | 29 | |
| 1990 | State of Grace | Terry | Film | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1990 | Cool Blue | Phil the Plumber (uncredited) | Film | 4.6 | 29 |
| 1989 | Casualties of War | Sgt. Tony Meserve | Film | 7.2 | 28 |
| 1989 | We're No Angels | Jim | Film | 6.2 | 28 |
| 1988 | Colors | Danny McGavin | Film | 6.5 | 27 |
| 1988 | Judgment in Berlin | Guenther X | Film | 5.5 | 27 |
| 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 26 |
| 1986 | At Close Range | Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr. | Film | 6.8 | 25 |
| 1986 | Shanghai Surprise | Glendon Wasey | Film | 4.2 | 25 |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | Daulton Lee | Film | 6.4 | 24 |
| 1984 | Racing with the Moon | Henry 'Hopper' Nash | Film | 6.3 | 23 |
| 1984 | Crackers | Dillard | Film | 4.7 | 23 |
| 1983 | Bad Boys | Mick O'Brien | Film | 7.0 | 22 |
| 1983 | Risky Business | Passenger in Car (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 22 |
| 1983 | Summerspell | Buddy | Film | 8.0 | 22 |
| 1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Jeff Spicoli | Film | 6.8 | 21 |
| 1981 | Taps | Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer | Film | 6.8 | 20 |
| 1981 | The Beaver Kid 2 | Groovin' Larry | Film | 4.3 | 20 |
| 1981 | Hellinger's Law | Bit Part (uncredited) | Film | 8.8 | 20 |
| 1981 | The Killing of Randy Webster | Don Fremont | Film | 6.0 | 20 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 14 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 14 |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie | Boy (uncredited) | TV | 7.9 | 13 |
| 1965 | aspekte | Self | TV | 8.5 | 4 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 7 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 16 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 16 |
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