Birth name
Sean Justin Penn
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Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
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Spouse
Robin Wright Penn (27 April 1996 - present) 2 children
Madonna (16 August 1985 - 10 January 1989) (divorced)

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Trivia
He served 32 days in jail in 1987 for hitting an extra.

He and Robin Wright Penn lived together from 1991 until their marriage in 1996. They had two children before their marriage.

They lost their home in the Malibu fire in November 1993.

Appeared with his brother Chris Penn in At Close Range (1986), in which their actress mother, Eileen Ryan, played their grandmother.

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.

Ranked #76 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Brother of actor Chris Penn, son of Leo Penn and Eileen Ryan.

Brother of musician Michael Penn.

Moved to Marin County (North of San Francisco) to avoid raising his kids in Hollywood.

Daughter, with Robin Wright Penn, Dylan Frances (b. 13 April 1991).

Son, with Robin Wright Penn, Hopper Jack (b. 6 August 1993).

His son is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

Brother-in-law of Aimee Mann

Quit smoking (or at least cut down) on his 40th birthday for health reasons. Prior to that, he was known as one of Hollywood's heaviest smokers, smoking at least four packs a day.

Dated musician and actress Jewel Kilcher for a time. He directed the music video for her song "You Were Meant For Me" in 1997.

On September 11, 2004, he received the John Steinbeck award at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The award is given out by the San Francisco Chronicle and benefits San Jose State University. The evening included film clips and discussion with Peter Coyote. The biggest surprise of the night was that Bruce Springsteen (a longtime friend of Sean's and the first recipient of the award) presented it to him.

His father was a Jew of Russian and Lithuanian blood and his mother was Irish-Catholic. His grandparents ran a Jewish deli for some time in New York.

In October 2002, bought a $56,000 ad in the Washington Post to publish an open letter to President Bush asking him to slow down the march of war towards Iraq. He wrote it as a father of two children and as a son of a WW II veteran.

His father, Leo Penn, had been blacklisted in the 50s Hollywood.

He and his family moved out of Hollywood to Marin County, San Francisco because he was "tired of a lot of aspects of Los Angeles, the main one being raising the kids in a company town".

His car, a limited-edition 1987 Buick Grand National, was stolen in Berkeley months after his return from Iraq. Among the lost contents were 2 guns.

He and Director Clint Eastwood discussed the posibility of Penn starring in 'Blood Work'. Though it didn't work out, they got the opportunity to work together later in 'Mystic River'.