GROWING UP PENN

The early years

Dylan as a baby with her parents (ca. 1991); Sean says from the beginning he and Wright exposed the kids to a lot of the arts. “I didn’t really understand a life that was not a creative life.”

Penn pals

Sean, Hopper, Dylan and Robin at a basketball game in 2004. “They’re very close,” Penn says of Dylan and Hopper, who is named for the late actor Dennis Hopper.

Their big debut

Hopper, Dylan and Sean at the Cannes Film Festival. “It was overwhelming,” Sean says of being on the red carpet with his kids.