Everything about Susan Sarandon totally explained
| yearsactive = 1970 - present
| spouse =
Chris Sarandon (1967-1979)
| domesticpartner =
Tim Robbins (1988-)
| academyawards =
Best Actress1995
Dead Man Walking
| baftaawards =
Best Actress in a Leading Role1994
The Client
| sagawards =
Outstanding Actress - Motion Picture1995
Dead Man Walking
| awards =
NBR Award for Best Actress1991
Thelma & Louise
}}
Susan Sarandon (born
October 4,
1946) is an
Academy Award-winning
American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film,
Dead Man Walking. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of
progressive causes.
Biography
Early life
Sarandon, the eldest of nine children, was born
Susan Abigail Tomalin in
New York City, the daughter of Lenora Marie (
née Criscione) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and
nightclub singer during the
big band era. Sarandon's father was of
English,
Irish, and
Welsh ancestry and her mother was of
Sicilian/
Italian descent;
Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of
The Lovely Bones, opposite
Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter,
Eva Amurri, in
Middle of Nowhere; both of the movies were filmed in 2007.
Most recently, Sarandon joined the cast of "Peacock" starring opposite
Ellen Page,
Cillian Murphy,
Bill Pullman and
Josh Lucas. Filming will take place in Des Moines, Iowa.
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 1981, readers of
Playboy magazine voted hers the Best Celebrity Breasts of the Summer of 1981. In response, she said, "It must seem to a lot of people that I'm always naked or making love in my films. I think it's very hard to be in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples".
In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated director Franco Amurri, with whom she'd a daughter in 1985, actress
Eva Amurri. to participating in a 1983 delegation to
Nicaragua sponsored by
MADRE, an organization that promotes "social, environmental and economic justice." Sarandon has also expressed support for various
tolerance and
human rights causes that are similar philosophically to ideas found among the
Christian left.
In 1995 Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers who were interviewed for the documentary,
The Celluloid Closet, which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted
homosexuality.
In 1999, she was appointed
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and in that capacity has actively supported the organization's global advocacy, as well as the work of the Canadian
UNICEF Committee.
During the
2000 election, Sarandon supported
Ralph Nader's run for President, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of Nader 2000. However, during the
2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several "Nader 2000 Leaders" who signed a petition urging voters to vote for Democratic Party candidate
John Kerry.
Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the
2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against the concept of the war as a pre-emptive strike. Prior to a 2003 protest sponsored by the
United for Peace and Justice coalition, she said that many Americans "do not want to risk their children or the children of
Iraq." Sarandon was one of the first to appear in a series of political ads sponsored by
TrueMajority, an organization established by
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream founder
Ben Cohen.
Also in 2003, Sarandon appeared in a "Love is Love is Love" commercial, promoting the acceptance of
gay,
lesbian,
bisexual and
transgender individuals. She hosted a section of the
Live 8 concert in
Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 2005.
Along with anti-war activist
Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006
Mother's Day protest sponsored by
Code Pink; she's expressed interest in portraying Sheehan in a movie. In January 2007, she appeared with Robbins and
Jane Fonda at an
anti-war rally in
Washington, D.C. in support of a Congressional measure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.
In
2006 she was one of eight women selected to carry in the
Olympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the
2006 Olympic Winter Games in
Turin, Italy.
Body of work
Filmography
Television
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Other notes |
| 1970-1971 |
A World Apart |
Patrice Kahlman |
|
| 1971 |
|
Joyce |
1 episode |
| 1972 |
Search for Tomorrow |
Sarah Fairbanks |
unknown episodes |
| 1973 |
Wide World Mystery |
|
episode The Haunting of Rosalind |
| 1974 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' |
Ailie Calhoun |
|
| The Satan Murders |
Kate |
TV movie |
| June Moon |
Eileen |
TV movie |
| The Rimers of Eldritch |
Pasty Johnson |
TV movie |
| 1982 |
Who Am I This Time? |
Helene Shaw |
TV movie |
| 1984 |
Oxbridge Blues |
Natalie |
TV mini-series |
| Faerie Tale Theatre |
Beauty |
1 episode |
| 1985 |
A.D |
Livilla |
TV mini-series |
| Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Duce II |
Edda Mussolini Ciano |
TV movie |
| 1986 |
Women of Valor |
Col. Margaret Ann Jessup |
TV movie |
| 1994 |
All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! |
Bitsy |
|
| 1995 |
The Simpsons |
voice of The Ballet Teacher |
1 episode |
| 1999 |
Earthly Possessions |
Charlotte Emory |
TV movie |
| 2001 |
Friends |
Cecilia Monroe |
Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Guest Actress |
| Cool Women In History |
The Host |
Season 1 |
| 2002 |
Malcolm in the Middle |
Meg |
Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Guest Actress |
| 2003 |
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune |
Princess Wensicia Corrino |
TV mini-series |
| 2004 |
Troy: The Passion of Helen |
The Host |
|
| 2005 |
The Exonerated |
Sunny Jacobs |
TV movie |
| Mad TV |
|
2 episodes |
| 2006 - 2007 |
Rescue Me |
Alicia |
|
Documentaries
| Year |
Film |
Role |
| 1983 |
When the Mountains Tremble |
|
| 1990 |
Through the Wire |
narrator |
| 1993 |
Wildnerness: The Last Stand |
narrator |
| 1995 |
The Celluloid Closet |
|
| 1996 |
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press |
narrator |
| 1997 |
The Need to Know |
narrator |
| Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins |
narrator |
| 187: Documented |
narrator |
| 1999 |
For Love of Julian |
narrator |
| 2000 |
Light Keeps Me Company |
|
| Iditarod: A Far Distant Place |
narrator |
| This Is What Democracy Looks Like |
narrator |
| Dying to be Thin |
narrator |
| 2001 |
Uphill All the Way |
narrator |
| 900 Women |
narrator |
| The Shaman's Apprentice |
narrator |
| Rudyland |
narrator |
| Ghosts of Attica |
narrator |
| Last Party 2000 |
|
| 2002 |
The Next Industrial Revolution |
narrator |
| Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion |
narrator |
| 2003 |
XXI Century |
|
| The Nazi Officer's Wife |
narrator |
| Burma: Anatomy of Terror |
narrator |
| Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen |
narrator |
| 2004 |
Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields |
narrator |
| 2005 |
A Whale in Montana |
narrator |
| On the Line: Dissent in an Age of Terrorism |
|
| 2006 |
Secrets of the Code |
narrator |
| Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars |
narrator |
| 2007 |
This Child of Mine |
narrator |
| World Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies |
|
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