O 2025 One Battle After Another Col. Steven J. Lockjaw

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   Penn is Madonna's ex-husband, with whom he starred in the film "Shanghai Surprise." During the post-wedding luncheon held on the lawn, he became furious at the appearance of a helicopter carrying paparazzi and began firing at them with a gun.

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   On October 18, 2002, Penn paid $56,000 to publish an open letter to George Bush in The Washington Post. In the letter, published as an advertisement, Penn criticized American policy toward Iraq.

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   Unlike most of his colleagues, he is critical of many classic film masterpieces, considering, for example, "Gone with the Wind" to be a mediocre melodrama.

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   His mother is an Irish Catholic. His father is Jewish, "of Russian and Lithuanian descent on different sides," as somewhat curiously stated in English-language biographies of Penn. His grandparents ran a Jewish delicatessen in New York.

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   Sean Penn is the brother of actor Chris Penn.

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   For beating up a persistent journalist, he served one month and one day in prison.

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   Sean is the son of director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan.

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   For the role of the neurotic musician in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown," he learned to play the guitar virtuosically.

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   Sean is close friends with Mickey Rourke and reveres Marlon Brando.

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    In 1993, Penn's house in Malibu burned completely to the ground due to a severe fire.