Michael Penn

• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '90s-2000s
• Major Genres: Comedy, Comedy Drama
• Career Highlights: Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, The Anniversary Party
• First Major Screen Credit: Saturday Night Live: Sean Penn (1987)

Biography

Like fellow Angeleno Randy Newman, singer/songwriter Michael Penn may have a future beyond the pop charts in film scoring. Pop maestro Penn's bits of music in Hard Eight and Boogie Nights were extremely well-crafted (no surprise -- he's a great songwriter) and somber, in keeping with the movies' dark content (remember the scary tolling of the bells in both?). It makes perfect sense -- his birthright has found him immersed in film culture his whole life. ~ Denise Sullivan, All Movie Guide

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