Sean penn biography jewish religion
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Sean Penn
American actor and filmmaker (born )
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, )[1] is an American actor and film director. He is known for his intense leading man roles in film. Over his career, he has earned numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for three BAFTA Film Awards. Penn received an Honorary César in
Penn made his feature film debut in the drama Taps (), before taking roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (), Bad Boys (), and At Close Range (). He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for playing a grieving father in Mystic River () and Harvey Milk in Milk (). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in Dead Man Walking (), Sweet and Lowdown () and I Am Sam (). Penn's other credits include Casualties of War (), State of Grace (), Carlito's Way (), She's So Lovely (), The Game (), The Thin Red Line (), Hurlyburly (), 21 Grams
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List of Jewish actors
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Sir Anthony Hopkins, 83, just won his (second) best actor Oscar for “The Father”. Next January, he is scheduled to början filming “One Life”, a bio-pic about Sir Nicholas Winton (), a British banker who arranged the rescue of Czech children, mostly Jewish. Winton brought them to England on the eve of WWII. The children he saved included (future) director KAREL REISZ ("The French Lieutenant's Woman"). Winton’s parents, German Jews, moved to England in and quickly assimilated bygd converting to Christianity. Winton practiced no religion as an adult. He was knighted (made a “Sir”) in for his rescue work.
An aside: I thought if you “count” Winton as Jewish—that he would be the first Jewish, British knight to be played bygd another British knight (Hopkins). But, he’s not: Sir Michael Gambon played famous British Jewish impresario BERNARD DELFONT () in “Judy”, the film about Judy Garland. Delfont was knighted in (At your ne