Chris Penn
Audiences rate Chris Penn’s films higher than 68% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Tubi) · Pale Rider (YouTube) · Best of the Best (Tubi) · At Close Range (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Tubi, Fawesome) · Footloose (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Mulholland Falls (Tubi) and 2 more.
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The ThumbScore for Chris Penn (73.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 19 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Chris's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Christopher Shannon Penn (October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006) was an American actor. He was the younger brother of both actor and filmmaker Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn. Noted as a skilled character actor, he was typically cast as a tough character, featured as a villain or a working-class thug, or in a comic role. Penn had notable parts in such films as All the Right Moves (1983), The Wild Life (1984), Footloose (also 1984), Pale Rider (1985), At Close Range (1986), Reservoir Dogs (1992), True Romance (1993), Short Cuts (also 1993), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), The Boys Club (1996), Rush Hour (1998), Corky Romano (2001), and Starsky & Hutch (2004). He won the Volpi Cup for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his performance in The Funeral (1996). He also provided the voice of corrupt cop Edward "Eddie" Pulaski in the action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004). Penn was found dead in his apartment on January 24, 2006, at the age of 40. An autopsy revealed the primary cause for his death was "nonspecific cardiomyopathy" (cardiovascular disease).
Born 1965-10-10 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 2006-01-24.
On ThumbScore, Chris Penn appears in 19 films with an average audience score of 73.7%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
