ACTOR

Sean Penn

1960 - Today

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Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He has won Academy Awards for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the biopic Milk (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie on December 4, 1974, directed by his father Leo Penn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sean Penn has received more than 25,279,915 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Sean Penn is the 310th most popular actor (up from 329th in 2019), the 568th most popular biography from United States (up from 604th in 2019) and the 156th most popular American Actor.

Sean Penn is most famous for being an actor and director. He has won two Academy Awards, one for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Mystic River, and one for Best Director for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sean Penns by language

Over the past year Sean Penn has had the most page views in the with 2,594,833 views, followed by Spanish (320,754), and Russian (269,750). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tajik (538.39%), Egyptian Arabic (268.92%), and Moksha (143.62%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sean Penn ranks 310 out of 13,578. Before him are Salma Hayek, Harold Lloyd, Carl Weathers, Kim Novak, Mia Farrow, and Leonard Nimoy. After him are Ian Holm, Maurice Chevalier, Daniel Craig, Michael J. Fox, Matt Damon, and Jennifer Aniston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Sean Penn ranks 20. Before him are Hassan Nasrallah, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Franco Baresi, and Kenneth Branagh. After him are Julianne Moore, Rudi Völler, Andreas Brehme, Ebrahim Raisi, Tilda Swinton, and Yoon Suk Yeol.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sean Penn ranks 568 out of 20,380. Before him are George Armstrong Custer (1839), Quincy Jones (1933), Ronald Wayne (1934), Mia Farrow (1945), Leonard Nimoy (1931), and Charles Goodyear (1800). After him are Eddie Murphy (1961), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Steven Tyler (1948), Arthur Compton (1892), John Coltrane (1926), and Babe Ruth (1895).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Sean Penn ranks 156. Before him are Burt Young (1940), Harold Lloyd (1893), Carl Weathers (1948), Kim Novak (1933), Mia Farrow (1945), and Leonard Nimoy (1931). After him are Matt Damon (1970), Jennifer Aniston (1969), Julianne Moore (1960), Carrie Fisher (1956), Gene Kelly (1912), and John Belushi (1949).

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Television and Movie Roles

21 Grams
Paul Rivers
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
Sep 6o 20037.336 / 10
The Game
Conrad Van Orton
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
Sep 12o 19977.561 / 10
Mystic River
Jimmy Markum
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Mar 3o 20037.747 / 10