Susan Sarandon

Biography of Susan Sarandon

Susan Abigail Tomalin was born on October 4, 1946 in New York City. She is an American actress.

Susan Sarandon was born the eldest of nine children into a strictly Catholic family of Italo-Welsh descent. Sarandon's father Philip Tomalin was also active in show business as a singer in a big band. "I was forbidden to sing because I didn't have a nice voice. It created a music phobia in me," Sarandon told the Guardian.

After her school education she enrolled at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and occupied i.a. acting, English and military strategy. She earned the money for her studies through jobs as a secretary, cleaning lady and model. In fact, she had little interest in acting, but in 1964 she took part in a theatrical performance.

Through her husband, Sarandon came to film in 1970, both were cast in the film Joe. Chris failed and she was cast for a lead role. She then shot smaller parts for television while still a student in Washington, D.C. In 1975 she starred opposite Robert Redford in Daredevil Fliers and her first major success was in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which she played Janet Weiss.

In the drama Pretty Baby she convinced as the mother of a prostitute (portrayed by Brooke Shields). Shortly thereafter, she worked again with Louis Malle for Atlantic City, USA - and she was nominated for an Oscar for her role as a waitress. The two also became closer in private. In 1979 she divorced Chris Sarandon. In 1983, she starred opposite Catherine Deneuve in the horror film Desire before her final career breakthrough came with a starring role opposite Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer in the film The Witches of Eastwick.

In 1988, on her next film project, Annie's Men, she met Tim Robbins and began a relationship with him. Her involvement in the project came about at the instigation of Kevin Costner, Sarandon said in an interview with London's Guardian.

In 1991, Sarandon co-starred with Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise. She was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of a waitress turned delinquent. The following year she was nominated again after she had impressed as a caring mother in Lorenzo's Oil. Two years later, she received another Oscar nomination for her role as a boy's protective advocate in The Client, but lost the award to Jessica Lange. In the film Dead Man Walking, based on true events, directed by her partner Tim Robbins, with whom she combined a strong liberal, political and social commitment, she stood in front of the camera alongside Sean Penn and was awarded an Oscar for her role as a nun Helen Prejean Awarded.

In December 2009, Sarandon and Robbins announced their separation. Sarandon has two sons with Tim Robbins, one of whom is actor Miles Robbins. Her daughter Eva Amurri from a relationship with Italian director Franco Amurri is also an actress.

She has been nominated for an Oscar five times in her career. She finally won it in 1996 for Dead Man Walking (1995). She was also nominated nine times for a Golden Globe, most recently for the series Feud, in which she starred as Bette Davis.

In 2010, Sarandon was named FAO Goodwill Ambassador along with Celine Dion.

In 2011, Sarandon visited the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

In a 2011 interview related to her role as Sister Helen Prejean in the film Dead Man Walking, Susan Sarandon described then-Pope Benedict XVI as as a Nazi ("The one before, not the Nazi we have right now"). Two days after the incident, the Anti-Defamation League asked her to apologize.

During the 2016 United States presidential election, she made public her support for Senator Bernie Sanders. After he failed to win the Democratic Party primary, she endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

She has been campaigning for the legalization of cannabis for years.

Filmography

1970 Joe

1971 Lady Liberty

1971 The Apprentice

1974 Lovin' Molly

1974 The Front Page

1975 The Great Waldo Pepper

1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1976 One Summer Love

1977 Checkered Flag or Crash

1977 The Other Side of Midnight

1977 The Great Smokey Roadblock

1978 Pretty Baby

1978 King of the Gypsies

1979 Something Short of Paradise

1980 Atlantic City

1980 Loving Couples

1982 Tempest

1983 The Hunger

1984 The Buddy System

1985 Compromising Positions

1987 The Witches of Eastwick

1988 Bull Durham

1988 Sweet Hearts Dance

1989 The January Man

1989 A Dry White Season

1990 White Palace

1991 Thelma & Louise

1992 The Player

1992 Light Sleeper

1992 Bob Roberts

1992 Lorenzo's Oil

1994 The Client

1994 Little Women

1994 Safe Passage

1995 Dead Man Walking

1996 James and the Giant Peach

1998 Twilight

1998 Illuminata

1998 Stepmom

1999 Our Friend, Martin

1999 Cradle Will Rock

1999 Anywhere but Here

2000 Joe Gould's Secret

2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

2001 Cats & Dogs

2001 Goodnight Moon

2002 Igby Goes Down

2002 The Banger Sisters

2002 Moonlight Mile

2002 Little Miss Spider

2004 Noel

2004 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

2004 Shall We Dance

2004 Alfie

2005 Elizabethtown

2005 Romance & Cigarettes

2006 Irresistible

2007 Mr. Woodcock

2007 In the Valley of Elah

2007 Enchanted

2007 Emotional Arithmetic

2008 Speed Racer

2008 Middle of Nowhere

2009 The Greatest

2009 Leaves of Grass

2009 Solitary Man

2009 The Lovely Bones

2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

2010 Peacock

2012 Jeff, Who Lives at Home

2012 Robot & Frank

2012 That's My Boy

2012 Arbitrage

2012 Cloud Atlas

2012 The Company You Keep

2013 Snitch District Attorney

2013 The Big Wedding

2013 The Last of Robin Hood

2014 Tammy

2014 Ping Pong Summer

2014 The Calling

2015 Hell and Back

2015 The Meddler

2015 3 Generations

2016 Zoolander 2

2016 April and the Extraordinary World

2016 Mothers and Daughters

2016 Spark

2016 Ace the Case

2016 My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea

2017 A Bad Moms Christmas

2018 The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2018 Viper Club

2019 Blackbird

2019 VHYes

2019 The Jesus Rolls

2020 Fearless

2021 Jolt

2021 Ride the Eagle

2023 Blue Beetle

Television

1971 A World Apart

1971 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

1972 Search for Tomorrow

1974 F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'

1974 The Satan Murders

1974 June Moon

1975 The Rimers of Eldritch

1975 The Haunting of Rosalind

1982 American Playhouse

1984 Oxbridge Blues

1984 Faerie Tale Theatre

1985 A.D

1985 Mussolini and I

1986 Women of Valor

1994 All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

1995 The Simpsons

1999 Earthly Possessions

2001 Friends

2001 Cool Women in History

2002 Malcolm in the Middle

2002 Courage the Cowardly Dog

2003 Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole

2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

2004 Troy: The Passion of Helen

2005 The Exonerated

2005 Mad TV

2006 The Simpsons

2006 Rescue Me

2007 Bernard and Doris

2009 Saturday Night Live

2009 ER

2010 You Don't Know Jack

2011 30 Rock

2012 The Big C

2012 Louie

2013 Mike & Molly

2014 Doll & Em

2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

2015 Moonbeam City

2016 Cassius and Clay

2016 American Dad!

2016 Skylanders Academy

2017 Feud: Bette and Joan

2017 Rick and Morty

2017 Ray Donovan

2017 Neo Yokio

2019 At Home with Amy Sedaris

2019 Robot Chicken

2019 Magic for Humans

2021 Red Bird Lane

2021 Search Party

2022 Monarch

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