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Profile of Chris Penn
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Chris Penn |
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10th June 1962 |
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Los Angeles, California, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Chris Penn (born June 10, 1962) is an American film actor. He is the brother of actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn, as well as the son of director Leo Penn.
Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Penn started acting at the age of 12 at the Loft Studio. In 1983, he made his feature film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's youth drama Rumble Fish. In 1983 he had a small role in the high school football drama All the Right Moves starring Tom Cruise, appeared in the hit dance musical Footloose in 1984, and played a villain in the Clint Eastwood western Pale Rider (1985).
In 1986 he co-starred with his brother, Sean, and mother Eileen Ryan in At Close Range.
Penn is typically cast as a supporting actor or with smaller roles in his movies, although has made some memorable performances, such in Reservoir Dogs and True Romance. In 1996 he won the best-supporting actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Funeral.
Penn was also featured on the 2004 video game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as the voice of Officer Eddie Pulaski.
Selected filmography
- After the Sunset (2004)
- Starsky & Hutch (2004)
- Murder by Numbers (2002)
- Corky Romano (2001)
- Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) (2000)
- Rush Hour (1998)
- The Funeral (1996)
- Mulholland Falls (1996)
- Short Cuts (1993)
- True Romance (1993)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- At Close Range (1986)
- Pale Rider (1985)
- Footloose (1984)
- The Wild Life (1984)
- All the Right Moves (1983)
- Rumble Fish (1983)
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