Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon
Born	Susan Abigail Tomalin
Spouse	Chris Sarandon (1967-1979)

Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

Biography

Early life

Sarandon was born as Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to Phillip Leslie Tomalin (of Irish, Welsh and English ancestry ) and Lenora Marie Criscione (who was born in Ragusa, Sicily ). Susan grew up as the eldest of ten children in a large Roman Catholic family. She graduated from Edison High School in 1964, and then attended The Catholic University of America from 1964 to 1968 where she attained a BA in drama.

Sarandon, and 10 of her relatives (including her significant other Tim Robbins and her son Miles), recently travelled to Wales to track her family's Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme "Coming Home: Susan Sarandon".

Career

In 1969, Susan went to a casting call for the motion-picture Joe with her then husband Chris Sarandon; although he did not get a part, she received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld (the film was released in 1970). Susan did not follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin' Molly; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. Susan was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham.

Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Her other movies include, Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005) and Elizabethtown (2005).

Susan Sarandon with Goldie Hawn in The Banger Sisters

Sarandon was slated to appear in The Simpsons as herself, in an episode to air in spring 2006; she has appeared on the show once before as a ballet teacher. She has also made appearances on the shows Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, and Rescue Me. She is also noted for portraying characters who display copious décolletage.

Sarandon spoke out against the 2003 invasion of Iraq and would like to portray "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan in a movie about Sheehan's crusade[4].

Personal life

While in college, she met and married fellow student Chris Sarandon in 1967. They divorced in 1979 and she retained her married name as her stage name. In the mid-1980s, she dated actor Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter, actress Eva Amurri (born 1985).

Since 1988, Sarandon has been in a relationship with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while filming Bull Durham. The couple have two children: Jack Henry (born 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born 1992). She and Robbins are both involved in liberal political causes.

Sarandon has expressed support for various tolerance and human rights causes. In 1995 she was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers who were interviewed for a documentary called The Celluloid Closet which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality.

In 2003, Sarandon appeared in a "Love is Love is Love" commercial, promoting the acceptance of gay, lesbian and transgender individuals.

In 2000 she supported Ralph Nader's run for President; and in 2004 she supported efforts to persuade Nader not to run for President.

In 2005, she hosted a section of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2006, she participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony by carrying the Olympic flag in Turin, Italy.

In 2007, Sarandon appeared at an Anti-War rally in Washington, D.C., with people such as Tim Robbins, and Jane Fonda. Her stance was, "Let us resist this war" and "Let us hate war in all its forms, whether the weapon used is a missile or an airplane."

Filmography

Features:

• Joe (1970)
• Lady Liberty (1971)
• The Apprentice (1971)
• Lovin' Molly (1974)
• The Front Page (1974)
• The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• Dragonfly (1976)
• Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
• The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
• The Last of the Cowboys (1977)
• Pretty Baby (1978)
• King of the Gypsies (1978)
• Something Short of Paradise (1979)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Loving Couples (1980)
• Tempest (1982)
• The Hunger (1983)
• The Buddy System (1984)
• Clue (1985)
• Compromising Positions (1985)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
• The January Man (1989)
• A Dry White Season (1989)
• White Palace (1990)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• The Player (1992) (Cameo)
• Light Sleeper (1992)
• Bob Roberts (1992)
• Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
• The Client (1994)
• Little Women (1994)
• Safe Passage (1994)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice)
• Twilight (1998)
• Illuminata (1998)
• Stepmom (1998)
• Our Friend, Martin (1999) (voice) (direct-to-video)
• Cradle Will Rock (1999)
• Anywhere But Here (1999)
• Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (voice)
• Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice)
• Goodnight Moon (2001) (voice) (short subject)
• Igby Goes Down (2002)
• The Banger Sisters (2002)
• Moonlight Mile (2002)
• Little Miss Spider (2002) (narrator) (short subject)
• Icebound (2003)
• Children of Dune (2003) (TV miniseries)
• Noel (2004)
• Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004) (Cameo)
• Shall We Dance (2004)
• Alfie (2004)
• Elizabethtown (2005)
• Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
• Irresistible (2006)

Upcoming:

• Mr. Woodcock (2007)
• Bernard and Doris (2007)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
• Speed Racer (2008)
• The Battle in Seattle (2008)
• Eleanor & Colette (2008)

Documentaries:

• When the Mountains Tremble (1983)
• Through the Wire (1990) (narrator)
• Wildnerness: The Last Stand (1993) (narrator)
• The Celluloid Closet (1995)
• Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996) (narrator)
• The Need to Know (1997) (narrator)
• Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins (1997) (narrator)
• 187: Documented (1997) (narrator)
• For Love of Julian (1999) (narrator)
• Light Keeps Me Company (2000)
• Iditarod: A Far Distant Place (2000) (narrator)
• This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) (narrator)
• Dying to be Thin (2000) (narrator)
• Uphill All the Way (2001) (narrator)
• 900 Women (2001) (narrator)
• The Shaman's Apprentice (2001) (narrator)
• Rudyland (2001) (narrator)
• Ghosts of Attica (2001) (narrator)
• Last Party 2000 (2001)
• The Next Industrial Revolution (2002) (narrator)
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2002) (narrator)
• XXI Century (2003)
• The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003) (narrator)
• Burma: Anatomy of Terror (2003) (narrator)
• Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen (2003) (narrator)
• Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields (2004) (narrator)
• A Whale in Montana (2005) (narrator)
• On the Line: Dissent in an Age of Terrorism (2005)
• Secrets of the Code (2006) (narrator)

Upcoming:

• This Child of Mine (2007) (narrator)
• World Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2007)

Academy Awards and nominations

• 1981 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Atlantic City
• 1991 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Thelma & Louise
• 1992 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Lorenzo's Oil
• 1994 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Client
• 1995 - Won - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Dead Man Walking

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External links

• Susan Sarandon at IMDb
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• Susan Sarandon's political donations at newsmeat.com
• Susan Sarandon in the news supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal
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