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Sean Penn
Sean PennSean Penn accepting the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in Mystic River during the 76th Annual Academy Awards, 2004.

Sean (Justin) Penn, (born Aug. 17, 1960, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.), U.S. actor and director. He had a series of minor roles before his breakthrough performance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Noted for his intensity and versatility, he later starred in such films as Dead Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), I Am Sam (2001), Mystic River (2003, Academy Award), Milk (2008, Academy Award), The Tree of Life (2011), and The Professor and the Madman (2019). Penn directed a number of movies, including The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007). A noted political activist, he was involved in humanitarian causes.

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Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or