ACTOR

Chris Penn

1965 - 2006

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Christopher Shannon Penn (October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006) was an American actor. He was the brother of actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn. Noted as a skilled character actor, he was typically cast as a tough character, featured as a villain or a working-class thug, or in a comic role and had roles in such films as To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, The Wild Life, Reservoir Dogs, The Funeral, Footloose, Rush Hour, Corky Romano, True Romance, Beethoven's 2nd, Short Cuts, The Boys Club, All the Right Moves, At Close Range, Pale Rider, and Starsky & Hutch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Penn has received more than 9,632,344 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Chris Penn is the 2,406th most popular actor (up from 2,590th in 2019), the 3,815th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,150th in 2019) and the 1,098th most popular American Actor.

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  • 39

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  • 3.74

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  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Chris Penn ranks 2,406 out of 13,578. Before him are Meg Foster, Kevin James, Bergüzar Korel, Robert Blake, Vanessa Williams, and Marlon Wayans. After him are Vera Alentova, Jason Clarke, June Allyson, Gérard Darmon, Tony Ramos, and Dennis Haysbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Chris Penn ranks 99. Before him are Ulf Kirsten, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Kim Bodnia, Yvan Attal, Kevin James, and Yang Liwei. After him are Angela Gheorghiu, Svetlana Medvedeva, Kyra Sedgwick, David Robinson, Robert Bilott, and Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus. Among people deceased in 2006, Chris Penn ranks 159. Before him are Gerard Reve, Lars Korvald, Red Auerbach, Henri Colpi, Elizabeth Bolden, and Mariam Aslamazian. After him are June Allyson, Bruno Kirby, Anthony Franciosa, Georgios Rallis, Tetsurō Tamba, and Johnny Servoz-Gavin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chris Penn ranks 3,815 out of 20,380. Before him are Dennis Sullivan (1941), Pink Anderson (1900), Robert Blake (1933), Ralph Craig (1889), Vanessa Williams (1963), and Marlon Wayans (1972). After him are Christopher Cross (1951), Stephen Krashen (1941), Jerome Robbins (1918), June Allyson (1917), Dennis Haysbert (1954), and Joe Morton (1947).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Chris Penn ranks 1,098. Before him are Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), Meg Foster (1948), Kevin James (1965), Robert Blake (1933), Vanessa Williams (1963), and Marlon Wayans (1972). After him are June Allyson (1917), Dennis Haysbert (1954), Joe Morton (1947), David Janssen (1931), Michael Berryman (1948), and Geraldine Farrar (1882).

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Television and Movie Roles

Reservoir Dogs
"Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Sep 2o 19928.1 / 10
Rush Hour
Clive
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Sep 18o 19987.051 / 10
Footloose
Willard
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Feb 17o 19846.7 / 10