[16] He spent his childhood in Ross, California and moved to Los Angeles in 2009, following his parents' separation.
[17][18][19] Penn portrayed Morgan Fairchild Williams, the real life cousin of filmmaker Michael Maxxis, opposite Paz de la Huerta and Rosanna Arquette in Maxxis' 2020 film Puppy Love.
[25] In 2023, Penn played Jacob McNeely opposite his mother and Billy Bob Thornton in Devil's Peak.
[26] Penn also played the lead in the 2023 short film Let Me Go (The Right Way), which was written by Owen King and Destry Spielberg and directed by the latter.
[27][28] On April 4, 2018, Penn and his then girlfriend, actress Uma von Wittkamp, were arrested in Nebraska for drug possession after police pulled them over for failing to signal.