Susan Sarandon
AKA Susan Abigail Tomalin
Born: 4-Oct-1946
Birthplace: Queens, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Louise in Thelma and Louise
Born Susan Tomalin, she had a quiet, boring but happy suburban childhood, Catholic University, where she majored in drama. She became Susan Sarandon when she married a college classmate Chris Sarandon in 1967. They divorced in 1979. She made her film debut in Joe (1970), as a bohemianette fleeing her father, Peter Boyle. After appearing for a few months on Search for Tomorrow, Sarandon landed a key role in the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau remake of The Front Page. She starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a dramatization of the play, opposite Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, and Meat Loaf, but that film flopped on first release. For middle America, she became a movie star when she was featured with Robert Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper (1975).
Sarandon later played the mother of 12-year-old prostitute Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby, and starred with Burt Lancaster in the loners' romance Atlantic City. Both films were directed by Louis Malle, who became Sarandon's lover for several years. In Bull Durham (1988), Sarandon played the baseball groupie, with Kevin Costner as a veteran catcher and a young Tim Robbins as the team's rookie pitcher. Susan Sarandon was Oscar-nominated for Atlantic City, The Client, Lorenzo's Oil, and Thelma & Louise. She won her statuette playing a nun in Dead Man Walking.
Always an outspoken liberal, Sarandon participated in protests against the Vietnam war and in support of civil rights while she was in high school.
Father: Phillip Leslie Tomalin (advertising executive)
Mother: Lenora Marie Criscione (housewife)
Brother: Terry Tomalin (sportswriter)
Husband: Chris Sarandon (actor, m. 16-Sep-1967, div. 1979)
Boyfriend: Louis Malle (director, together early 1980s)
Boyfriend: Sean Penn (actor, together in 1984)
Boyfriend: Franco Amurri (Italian screenwriter/director, together mid-1980s, one daughter)
Daughter: Eva Amurri (actress, b. 15-Mar-1985)
Boyfriend: Tim Robbins (actor, cohabited 1988-2009, two sons)
Son: Jack Henry Robbins (b. 15-May-1989)
Son: Miles Guthrie Robbins (musician, b. 4-May-1992)
High School: Edison High School, Edison, NJ (1964)
University: BA Drama, Catholic University of America (1968)
Endorsement of Revlon
America Coming Together
Amnesty International
Bill Bradley for President
The Creative Coalition Advisory Board
Dean for America
EMILY's List
Innocence Project Artists' Committee
John Edwards for President
Marijuana Policy Project Advisory Board
MoveOn.org
Nader 2000
Nader for President 2004
Obama for America
Progressive Patriots Fund
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Oscar for Best Actress 1996 for Dead Man Walking
Disorderly Conduct Arrested 30-Mar-1999 during Amadou Diallo protest
Italian Ancestry
Welsh Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
A Bad Moms Christmas (1-Nov-2017)
Zoolander 2 (4-Feb-2016)
The Meddler (14-Sep-2015)
The Calling (5-Aug-2014)
Tammy (2-Jul-2014)
Ping Pong Summer (18-Jan-2014)
The Last of Robin Hood (6-Sep-2013)
The Big Wedding (26-Apr-2013)
Snitch (21-Feb-2013)
Cloud Atlas (8-Sep-2012)
How to Make Money Selling Drugs (7-Sep-2012) · Herself
The Company You Keep (6-Sep-2012)
That's My Boy (14-Jun-2012) · Mary McGarricle
Arbitrage (21-Jan-2012)
Robot & Frank (20-Jan-2012)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (14-Sep-2011)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (14-May-2010) · Jake's Mother
Peacock (20-Apr-2010) · Fanny Crill
You Don't Know Jack (14-Apr-2010)
The Lovely Bones (24-Nov-2009) · Grandma Lynn
Leaves of Grass (14-Sep-2009) · Daisy
Solitary Man (Sep-2009)
PoliWood (1-May-2009) · Herself
The Greatest (17-Jan-2009)
Middle of Nowhere (6-Sep-2008) · Rhonda Berry
Speed Racer (28-Apr-2008)
Enchanted (20-Oct-2007)
Emotional Arithmetic (15-Sep-2007) · Melanie Winters
Mr. Woodcock (14-Sep-2007)
In the Valley of Elah (1-Sep-2007) · Joan Deerfield
Bernard and Doris (Sep-2006)
Irresistible (18-Apr-2006)
Romance & Cigarettes (6-Sep-2005) · Kitty
Elizabethtown (4-Sep-2005) · Hollie Baylor
The Exonerated (27-Jan-2005)
Alfie (22-Oct-2004) · Liz
Shall We Dance? (15-Oct-2004)
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (18-Sep-2004) · Herself
Noel (12-Sep-2004)
Ice Bound (20-May-2003)
Children of Dune (16-Mar-2003)
Moonlight Mile (9-Sep-2002) · Jojo Floss
The Banger Sisters (8-Sep-2002) · Lavinia
Igby Goes Down (23-May-2002)
Last Party 2000 (2-Nov-2001) · Herself
Cats & Dogs (23-Jun-2001) [VOICE]
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (5-Nov-2000) [VOICE]
Dirty Pictures (27-May-2000) · Herself
Light Keeps Me Company (5-Feb-2000) · Herself
Joe Gould's Secret (21-Jan-2000) · Alice Neel
Anywhere But Here (17-Sep-1999) · Adele August
Cradle Will Rock (18-May-1999)
Earthly Possessions (20-Mar-1999)
Our Friend, Martin (1999) [VOICE]
Stepmom (15-Dec-1998) · Jackie Harrison
Illuminata (21-May-1998)
Twilight (6-Mar-1998) · Catherine Ames
James and the Giant Peach (12-Apr-1996) [VOICE]
Dead Man Walking (29-Dec-1995) · Sister Helen Prejean
The Celluloid Closet (13-Sep-1995) · Herself
Little Women (21-Dec-1994) · Mrs. March
Safe Passage (Dec-1994)
The Client (20-Jul-1994)
Lorenzo's Oil (30-Dec-1992) · Michaela Odone
Bob Roberts (4-Sep-1992)
Light Sleeper (21-Aug-1992) · Ann
The Player (3-Apr-1992) · Herself
Thelma & Louise (24-May-1991) · Louise
White Palace (19-Oct-1990)
A Dry White Season (10-Sep-1989)
The January Man (13-Jan-1989) · Christine Starkey
Sweet Hearts Dance (23-Sep-1988)
Bull Durham (15-Jun-1988) · Annie Savoy
The Witches of Eastwick (12-Jun-1987)
Women of Valor (23-Nov-1986)
Compromising Positions (30-Aug-1985)
Mussolini and I (1985)
The Buddy System (4-May-1984)
The Hunger (29-Apr-1983)
Tempest (13-Aug-1982)
Who Am I This Time? (2-Feb-1982)
Loving Couples (4-Sep-1980)
Atlantic City (2-Sep-1980) · Sally
Something Short of Paradise (14-Sep-1979)
King of the Gypsies (20-Dec-1978)
Pretty Baby (5-Apr-1978)
The Other Side of Midnight (21-Oct-1977)
The Great Smokey Roadblock (7-Sep-1977)
Checkered Flag or Crash (3-Jun-1977)
One Summer Love (1976)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (14-Aug-1975) · Janet Weiss
The Great Waldo Pepper (13-Mar-1975) · Mary Beth
The Front Page (17-Dec-1974) · Peggy Grant
Lovin' Molly (14-Apr-1974) · Sarah
F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Last of the Belles" (7-Jan-1974)
Lady Liberty (1971)
Joe (15-Jul-1970)
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