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Apr 16, 2024 · Daniele Venturelli/WireImage. Penn and Wright welcomed their first child, Dylan Frances Penn, on April 13, 1991. Although she was born Dylan, her dad has a sweet nickname that he...
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- Didn't Want to Be An Actor
- 'Very reluctant' About Latest Sean Penn Film
- Her Mom Was Key Deciding Factor For Flag Day
- She's More Like Her Dad Than Her Mom
- Her Mom Taught Her to Be Less Serious
- She Has A Great 'Listening Face'
- She Dropped of College
- She's An Aspiring Director
- She Is Childhood Friends with Emma Roberts
- She Starred in A Nick Jonas Music Video
Born on April 13, 1991, Dylan Penn didn't grow up wanting to be an actor and "rejected" it most of her life. In an interview with Treats!magazine in 2014, the actress said: "I'm trying out this whole acting thing...it's hard to say for me because I've rejected it my whole life until now. I literally can't say it without laughing."
In an interview with Newsweek, her father, who directed and also stars in Flag Day, said: "There was no concept of the movie" that he was able to consider doing without his daughter being in it, but "she was very reluctant." "She was reluctant to, she didn't know that she wanted to act and so on. And so it took some time, it wasn't until you know, ...
Asked what made her decide to star in Flag Day, Dylan Penn told Newsweek: "My mom and our producer John Killick were the two people that pushed me to make the jump. "My mom just simply said that she had one of the best experiences working with my dad as a director and that passing this up would be a big mistake." She added Killick told her "somethi...
In 2015, the actress told the New York Post:"I've always said I'm more like my dad. "We both have an ego," she said of her father. "We're both very opinionated and, I don't know, sometimes confident in a way that could be annoying. "Both of us have realized recently we need to kind of chill out. He's taken a little bit longer than me [but] in his o...
In the same interview,the actress said Wright instilled a "make light of every situation" perspective in herself—"like, don't be so serious."
Flag Day director Sean Penn toldNewsweek:"We attached her face and her face alone" to the film. The director explained at the center of Jennifer, the character played by Dylan Penn in Flag Day, was the "honesty of how she listens," which he felt resonated most with his daughter. "She's beautifully skeptical and but also very intuitively able to emb...
According to IMDb, Penn attended UCLA and USC (University of Southern California), but dropped out of both universities. She graduated from the Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California. In a 2017 interview with The Daily Beast,the actress said: "I dropped out of USC after a semester, and my par...
Back in 2014, she toldEllemagazine: "Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills. Writing, directing...anything behind the camera is what I want to do. In the 2014 interview with Treats!,she said: "My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is...
In an Instagram post in March 2020, Wright shared a photograph of her daughter and Roberts as children, tagging the Instagram accounts of the Flag Dayactress as well as Roberts. Wright wrote: "Looking through old photo albums 🥰Sending love to these babies @iamdylanpenn @emmaroberts," in the Instagram post at the time.
Back in 2014, the actress starred in the music video for the song "Chains" by Nick Jonas, a song about "being trapped" in love or "anything that entangles you in your life and doesn't let you do what you need to do to feel free," Jonas told MTV News in 2014. She appears as a mysterious woman Jonas later goes after while pushing through a chaotic ri...
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Dylan Frances Penn [3] (born April 13, 1991) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright. Her early public roles included modeling campaigns for Gap Inc., a magazine cover for treats!, a music video appearance in Nick Jonas 's "Chains" and an acting role in Elvis & Nixon .
Aug 5, 2021 · Dylan Penn had a unique fifth-grade experience involving her famous mom. The 30-year-old actress — who is making her starring-role movie debut alongside dad Sean Penn in the new drama Flag...
Jan 23, 2023 · Robin Wright Bonds With Daughter Dylan Penn, 31, On Outing After 2 Reunions With Ex Sean. 'The Princess Bride' star and her daughter were seen picking up a bite while out in Pacific...
Jul 18, 2021 · Yet it wasn’t until a decade later—and with encouragement from her mother, Robin Wright—that Penn, now 30, signed on for her first lead role. (Previously, she appeared in the 2015 horror film...
Nov 6, 2021 · Dylan tells PEOPLE her mom, Robin Wright, once treated her to a pick-me-up treat after she went through her first breakup. "My mom, when I was 16, you know, being an angsty teenager, was...
