Today is the 57th birthday of Sean Penn, who was born in California on August 17, 1960.
Sean Penn's initial ambition was to pursue a career in law, but he later found out that he was really interested in directing like his father. Sean Penn joined the Los Angeles Theater Company without going to college, and soon switched from stage to television.
In 1980, Sean Penn moved to New York and starred in his first film role in Lights Out.
In 1985, Sean Penn and Madonna married, and this marriage was their first marriage.
After the marriage, it was revealed that Madonna was abused by Sean Pan, and the two divorced in 1989.
In 1995, Sean Penn played rape murderer Matthew Poncelet in Tim Robbins' prison film Death Row, which won the Best Actor Award at the 46th Berlin Film Festival.
In 1998, he starred in the war film "Thin Red Line" directed by Terrence Malik.
In 2001, he starred with Dakota Fanning in the feature film I Am Sam, directed by Jessie Nelson, as sam, a mentally handicapped father, who won the 2002 Young Artist Award and a 2002 Oscar nomination.
In 2003, he starred in the crime film "21 Grams", played a sick university professor, and won the Best Actor Award at the 60th Venice Film Festival.
In 2004, he starred with Tim Robbins and Kevin Bakken in the mysterious thriller "River of Mystery" directed by Clint Eastwood, which won the 76th Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 2007, the fourth directorial work, Survival in the Wild, was released, an adaptation of a collection of essays by writer Jon Collecaul, inspired by the true experiences of Christopher McCandreth, which tells the wandering saga of an idealist and transcendentalist, Christopher Johnson McCandalles.
In 2009, Sean Penn starred with Emile Husky, James Franco and Diego Runa in the biopic Milk directed by Gus Van Sant, playing the "gay" mp, Sean Penn lost nearly 22 kilograms to better match Harvey Mick's thin body type, and won the 81st Academy Award for Best Actor for the second time.
In 1991, Sean Penn and Robin White officially opened their relationship, and before they were officially married, the two lived together for five years and gave birth to a pair of children. In November 2007, the two filed for divorce for the first time in court. In March 2008, the two men withdrew their divorce applications. At the end of July 2010, Sean Penn and Robin White formally signed the divorce agreement.
In early 2011, Scarlett Johansson, who was only 26 years old, was found teasing two-time Golden Film Emperor Sean Pan with her beautiful legs during a meal in an open-air restaurant, thus exposing the relationship, but the love lasted less than half a year before it broke up.
In 2010, Sean Penn had the first scandal with Charlize Theron, a South African national. In 2014, the two confirmed their relationship. In 2015, it was broken up.