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  • Sean Penn at the Hammond Cinema Vanguard Award Tribute during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, seated in front of a backdrop with film festival text.
    Sean Penn
    / Later work

    …astronaut in the TV series The First (2018), a fictional account of the pioneer manned mission to Mars; it was canceled after one season. Penn returned to the big screen in The Professor and the Madman (2019), about the early compilation of The Oxford English Dictionary. In 2020 Penn married…

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    …astronaut in the TV series The First (2018), a fictional account of the pioneer manned mission to Mars; it was canceled after one season. Penn returned to the big screen in The Professor and the Madman (2019), about the early compilation of The Oxford English Dictionary. In 2020 Penn married…

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