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Susan Sarandon

Sarandon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Personal information
Birth nameSusan Abigail Tomalin
Birth dateOctober 04, 1946(age 63)
Place of birthNew York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1969 – present
SpouseChris Sarandon (1967 – 1979) (divorced)
Domestic partnerTim Robbins (1988 – 2009) (separated)

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Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in films and television, since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She was nominated for the award for four films, before that, and has received other recognition for her work. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.

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Star Sarandon pushes ping-pong in Milwaukee - Milwaukee Business Journal (blog) Tweet this news
Milwaukee Business Journal (blog)--Just when you thought reality TV had run out of topics, it appears -Susan Sarandon- is shopping a reality ping-pong show — and Milwaukee could be part of it. ... - Date : Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:46:20 GMT+00:00
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Insurance News Net (press release)--In fact, when you see the original Stepmom, it's difficult to choose between -Susan Sarandon- and Julia Roberts. You don't know who to side with at the end of ... - Date : Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:08:46 GMT+00:00
Michael Douglas steals the show in "Solitary Man" - FamilyVideo.com Tweet this news
FamilyVideo.com--Douglas stars as Ben Kalmen, a guy who once had it all - a beautiful wife, Nancy (-Susan Sarandon-), a great gig owning an auto dealership, and a sprawling ... - Date : Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:32:05 GMT+00:00
Stepmoms Get a Bad Rap - Momlogic.com Tweet this news
Momlogic.com--(Although everything worked out in the end, -Susan Sarandon's- character did have to die first ....) Think of the word "stepmom" and ask yourself what comes ... - Date : Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:06:01 GMT+00:00
Adam Lambert & Katy Perry: Scissor Sisters Concert! - Just Jared (blog) Tweet this news
Just Jared (blog)--The concert was also attended by actresses -Susan Sarandon- and Parker Posey (pictured with Adam below). Later in the evening, everyone hit the after-party at ... - Date : Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:00:27 GMT+00:00
PIC: Katy Perry Rocks Rainbow Hair Extensions - Us Magazine Tweet this news
Us Magazine--American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, -Susan Sarandon- and actress Parker Posey. Tell Us: Do you dig Katy's technicolor tresses?--- - Date : Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:28:05 GMT+00:00
Great Neck Park District - Great Neck Record Tweet this news
Great Neck Record--Starring Rachel Weisz, Mark Walberg and -Susan Sarandon-. 8 pm Park card required. β€’Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Course. ... - Date : Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:04:12 GMT+00:00
Jackson Expects Decision Soon Re The Hobbit - Contactmusic.com Tweet this news
Contactmusic.com--Caption: Peter Jackson, Saoirse Ronan and -Susan Sarandon-. The premiere of the film 'The Lovely Bones' at Greater Union Cinemas. ... - Date : Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:38:20 GMT+00:00
'Rocky Horror' auditions are scheduled - NorthJersey.com Tweet this news
NorthJersey.com--The movie, which starred Tim Curry, -Susan Sarandon-, and Barry Bostwick, is the fifth-highest musical of all time and still has midnight showings in theaters ... - Date : Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:12:44 GMT+00:00
My name is Kajol - Calcutta Telegraph Tweet this news
Calcutta Telegraph--Are you ready for comparisons with -Susan Sarandon-, who was terrific? Oh, -Susan Sarandon- is incredible! I think people will compare the two films, ... - Date : Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:06:34 GMT+00:00

Political activism :
Films
Year Title Role class="unsortable"Notes
1970 Joe Melissa Compton
1971 Lady Liberty Sally
1971 TheApprenticenolink=1 Elizabeth Hawkins
1974 Lovin' Molly Sarah
1974 TheFront PageThe Front Page (1974 film) Peggy Grant
1975 TheGreat Waldo Pepper Mary Beth
1975 TheRocky Horror Picture Show Janet Weiss
1976 Dragonfly Chloe aka "One Summer Love" (USA: reissue title)
1977 Checkered Flag or Crash C.C. Wainwright
1977 TheOther Side of MidnightThe Other Side of Midnight (film) Catherine Alexander Douglas
1977 TheLast of the Cowboysnolink=1 Ginny
1978 Pretty Baby Hattie
1978 King of the Gypsies Rose
1979 Something Short of Paradise Madeline Ross
1980 Atlantic City Sally Matthews Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress
1980 Loving Couples Stephanie
1982 Tempest Aretha Tomalin
1983 TheHungerThe Hunger (film) Dr. Sarah Roberts
1983 Who Am I This Time? Helene Shaw
1984 TheBuddy SystemThe Buddy System (film) Emily
1985 Compromising Positions Judith Singer
1986 Women of Valor Col. Margaret Ann Jessup
1987 TheWitches of EastwickThe Witches of Eastwick (film) Jane Spofford Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Actress
1988 Bull Durham Annie Savoy Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1988 Sweet Hearts Dance Sandra Boon
1989 TheJanuary Man Christine Starkey
1989 ADry White Season Melanie Bruwer
1990 White Palace Nora Baker London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (also for Thelma & Louise)
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1991 Thelma & Louise Louise Elizabeth Sawyer David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (shared with Geena Davis)
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (also for White Palace)
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (shared with Geena Davis)
Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated-Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1992 ThePlayer Herself
1992 Light Sleeper Ann
1992 Bob Roberts Tawna Titan
1992 Lorenzo's Oil Michaela Odone Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1994 TheClientThe Client (film) Regina 'Reggie' Love BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
1994 Little Women Aunt MarchAbigail 'Marmee' March
1994 Safe Passage Margaret 'Mag' Singer
1995 Dead Man Walking Sister Helen Prejean Academy Award for Best Actress
Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1996 James and the Giant Peach Miss Spider voice
1998 Twilight Catherine Ames
1998 Illuminata Calimene
1998 Stepmom Jackie Harrison San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated-Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1999 Our Friend, Martin Mrs. Clark voice (direct-to-video)
1999 Cradle Will Rock Margherita Sarfatti
1999 Anywhere but Here Adele August
2000 Joe Gould's Secret Alice Neel
2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Coco LaBouche voice
2001 Cats & Dogs Ivy voice
2001 Goodnight Moon Narrator voice (short subject)
2002 Igby Goes Down Mimi Slocumb Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also forMoonlight Mile)
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2002 TheBanger Sisters Lavinia Kingsley
2002 Moonlight Mile Jojo Floss Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Igby Goes Down)
2002 Little Miss Spider Narrator short subject
2003 Ice Bound Dr. Jerri Nielsen
2004 Noel Rose Collins
2004 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Herself Cameo
2004 Shall We Dance Beverly Clark
2004 Alfie Liz
2005 Elizabethtown Hollie Baylor
2005 Romance & Cigarettes Kitty
2006 Irresistible Sophie
2007 Mr. Woodcock Beverly Farley
2007 In the Valley of Elah Joan Deerfield
2007 Enchanted Queen Narissa
2007 Emotional Arithmetic Melanie Lansing Winters Nominated-Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress
Nominated-Jutra Award for Best Actress
2007 Bernard and Doris Doris Duke Nominated-Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated-Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2008 Speed Racer Mom Racer
2008 Middle of Nowhere Rhonda Berry
2009 TheGreatestThe Greatest (2009 film) Grace Brewer
2009 Peacock Fanny Crill Direct-to-video
2009 Leaves of Grass Daisy Kincaid
2009 Solitary Man Nancy
2009 TheLovely BonesThe Lovely Bones (film) Grandma Lynn Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Sylvia Moore post-production

Political activism :
Television
Year Title Role class="unsortable"Notes
1970 –
1971		 AWorld ApartA World Apart (TV series) Patrice Kahlman
1971 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 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
1974 TheSatan Murdersnolink=1 Kate TV movie
1974 June Moon Eileen TV movie
1974 TheRimers of Eldritch Pasty Johnson TV movie
1982 Who Am I This Time? Helene Shaw TV movie
1984 Oxbridge Blues Natalie TV mini-series
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre Beauty 1 episode
1985 A.D Livilla TV mini-series
1985 Mussolini and I 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 TheSimpsons voice of The Ballet Teacher 1 episode
1999 Earthly Possessions Charlotte Emory TV movie
2001 Friends Cecilia Monroe/Jessica Lockhart Nominated-Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Series
2001 Cool Women In History The Host Season 1
Nominated-Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series
2002 Malcolm in the Middle Meg Nominated-Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series
2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune Princess Wensicia TV miniseries
2004 Chappelle's Show herself Season 3
2004 Troy: The Passion of Helen The Host
2005 TheExoneratednolink=1 Sunny Jacobs TV movie
2005 Mad TV 2 episodes
2006 –
2007		 Rescue Me Alicia
2009 ER Nora 1 episode
2010 Who Do You Think You Are? herself 1 episode
2010 You Don't Know Jack Janet Good TV movie
2010 Chelsea Lately Herself Appeared 7/20/2010

Political activism :
Documentaries
Year Title Role
1983 When the Mountains Tremble
1990 Through the Wire narrator
1993 Wildnerness: The Last Stand narrator
1994 School of the Americas Assassins narrator
1995 TheCelluloid Closet
1996 Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press narrator
1997 TheNeed to Knownolink=1 narrator
1997 Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins narrator
1997 187: Documented narrator
1999 For Love of Julian narrator
2000 Light Keeps Me Company
2000 Iditarod: A Far Distant Place narrator
2000 This Is What Democracy Looks Like narrator
2000 Dying to be Thin narrator
2001 Uphill All the Way narrator
2001 900 Women narrator
2001 TheShaman's Apprenticenolink=1 narrator
2001 Rudyland narrator
2001 Islamabad: Rock City narrator
2001 Ghosts of Attica narrator
2001 Last Party 2000
2002 TheNext Industrial Revolutionnolink=1 narrator
2002 Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion narrator
2003 XXI Century
2003 TheNazi Officer's Wifenolink=1 narrator
2003 Burma: Anatomy of Terror narrator
2003 Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen narrator
2004 Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields narrator
2005 AWhale in Montananolink=1 narrator
2005 On the Line: Dissent in an Age of Terrorism
2006 Secrets of the Code narrator
2006 Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars narrator
2007 This Child of Mine narrator
2007 World Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2009 PoliWood Herself
2010 Who Do You Think You Are? Herself

Academy Award for Best Actress

Katharine Hepburn (1981) * Meryl Streep (1982) * Shirley MacLaine (1983) * Sally Field (1984) * Geraldine Page (1985) * Marlee Matlin (1986) * Cher (1987) * Jodie Foster (1988) * Jessica Tandy (1989) * Kathy Bates (1990) * Jodie Foster (1991) * Emma Thompson (1992) * Holly Hunter (1993) * Jessica Lange (1994) * Susan Sarandon (1995) * Frances McDormand (1996) * Helen Hunt (1997) * Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) * Hilary Swank (1999) * Julia Roberts (2000) ---- Complete list * (1928 “1940) * (1941 “1960) * (1961 “1980) * (1981 “2000) * (2001-present)

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Jodie Foster (1994) * Susan Sarandon (1995) * Frances McDormand (1996) * Helen Hunt (1997) * Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) * Annette Bening (1999) * Julia Roberts (2000) * Halle Berry (2001) * RenΓ©e Zellweger (2002) * Charlize Theron (2003) * Hilary Swank (2004) * Reese Witherspoon (2005) * Helen Mirren (2006) * Julie Christie (2007) * Meryl Streep (2008) * Sandra Bullock (2009)



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