Susan Sarandon
Biography
Susan Sarandon born October 4, 1946
Academy Awards
Best
Actress
1995 Dead Man Walking
BAFTA Awards
Best Actress
1994
The Client
Academy Award-winning American actress.
Biography
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), 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 ( film was released in 1970). Susan did not
follow up the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin'
Molly; it was five years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
a cult classic. That same year, she also played a female lead in The Great Waldo
Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. Susan was nominated for a Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic
City. Her most controversial film appearance was in "The Hunger" in
1983, a modern Vampire story which turned out to be critical and box office flop.
The film is remembered and gained some cult status, for a rather graphic lesbian
love scene between Sarandon and star Catherine Deneuve. It was a first mainstream
American film to feature a scene between two actresses. But Sarandon did not become
a household name until her breakthrough in the 1988 film Bull Durham, which was
a huge commercial and critical success.
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).
Sarandon was slated to appear in The Simpsons as herself, in an episode to
air in spring 2006, she appeared on a show once before as a ballet teacher. She
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.
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 filming Bull Durham. The couple have two children: Jack Henry (born 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born 1992). She and Robbins are involved in liberal causes.
Sarandon 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.
Sarandon hosted a section of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2005. 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.
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