Penn was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor and director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan ( née Annucci). His older brother is musician Michael Penn. His younger brother, actor Chris Penn, died in 2006.
His father was Jewish, the son of emigrants from Lithuania, Merkinė while his mother is a Catholic of Irish and Italian descent. Penn was raised in a secular home in Malibu, California, and attended Malibu Park Junior High School and Santa Monica High School, as Malibu had no high school at that time. #Argentinian gay bear porn actir movie#.