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

==Biography==
Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City, she
attended The Catholic University of America in
1964, where she met and marriage|married fellow
student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce
fifteen years later while still retaining her
married name as her stage name. 

After the 1968 Democratic National Convention, she
went to a cattle call for the film Joe (movie)|Joe
with Chris and, although he did not get a part,
Susan received the major role of the disaffected
teen who disappears into the seedy underworld (the
film was released in 1970 in film|1970).  She 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 film|cult classic. 
That same year, she also played the female lead in
The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford.

She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for
Atlantic City (movie)|Atlantic City, but was still
not a "household name" until the 1988 in film|1988
film Bull Durham.  It was while filming that movie
that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she
established a relationship that continues to this
day (as of 2005).

Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations
in the 1990s in film|1990s, finally winning in
1996 in film|1996 for Dead Man Walking.  

Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998 in
film|1998), Anywhere But Here (1999 in film|1999),
Cradle Will Rock (1999 in film|1999) (portraying
Margherita Sarfatti|Mussolini's mistress), The
Banger Sisters (2002 in film|2002) and Shall We
Dance (2004 movie)|Shall We Dance (2004 in
film|2004).

===Family===
Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri
(born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry
Robbins|John Henry (born 1989 and named for noted
murderer/writer Jack Abbott|Jack Henry Abbott) and
Miles Robbins|Miles (born 1992) by Tim Robbins.

==Politics==

Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their
involvement in liberal political causes.

==Academy Awards and nominations==

*1996 Won Dead Man Walking
*1995 Nominated The Client
*1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil
*1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise
*1981 Nominated Atlantic City (movie)|Atlantic
City

==Filmography==
*Joe (1970)
*Lady Liberty (1971)
*Blue Flower (1971)
*Lovin' Molly (1974)
*The Front Page (1974)
*The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
*The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
*Dragonfly (1976)
*Checkered Flag or Cash (1977)
*The Last of the Cowboys (1977) (also co-producer)
*The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
*King of the Gypsies (1978)
*Pretty Baby (1978)
*Something Short of Paradise (1979)
*Atlantic City (1980)
*Loving Couples (1980)
*Tempest (1982)
*The Hunger (1983)
*The Buddy System (1984)
*Compromising Positions (1985)
*The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
*Bull Durham (1988)
*Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
*January Man (1989)
*A Dry White Season (1989)
*Through the Wire (1990) (documentary) (narrator)
*White Palace (1990)
*Thelma & Louise (1991)
*The Player (1992) (Cameo)
*Light Sleeper (1992)
*Bob Roberts (1992)
*Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
*Wilderness: The Last Stand (1993) (documentary)
(narrator)
*The Client (1994)
*Little Women (1994)
*Safe Passage (1994)
*The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary)
*Dean Man Walking (1995)
*Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the
American Press (1996) (documentary) (narrator)
*James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice)
*The Need to Know (1997) (documentary) (narrator)
*Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins (1997)
(documentary) (narrator)
*187: Documented (1997) (documentary) (narrator)
*Twilight (movie)|Twilight (1998)
*Illuminata (1998)
*Stepmom (1998) (also executive producer)
*Cradle Will Rock (1999)
*Anywhere But Here (1999)
*Joe Gould's Secret (2000) 
*Light Keeps Me Company (2000) (documentary)
*Iditarod: A Far Distant Place (2000)
(documentary) (narrator)
*This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000)
(documentary) (narrator)
*Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (voice)
*Uphill All the Way (2001) (documentary)
(narrator)
*900 Women (2001) (documentary) (narrator)
*The Shaman's Apprentice (2001) (documentary)
(narrator)
*Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice)
*Rudyland (2001) (documentary) (narrator)
*Ghosts of Attica (2001) (narrator)
*Last Party 2000 (2001) (documentary)
*Goodnight Moon (2001) (short subject) (narrator)
*This Child of Mine (2002) (documentary)
(narrator)
*Igby Goes Down (2002)
*The Banger Sisters (2002)
*Moonlight Mile (2002) (also executive producer)
*XXI Century (2003) (documentary)
*Children of Dune (2003) Wensicia Corrino
*The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003) (documentary)
(narrator)
*Burma: Anatomy of Terror (2003) (documentary)
(narrator)
*Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2003) (documentary)
(narrator)
*When the Mountains Tremble (2004) (documentary)
*Noel (2004)
*Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) (Cameo)
*Shall We Dance (2004)
*Alfie (2004)
*Romance & Cigarettes (2005) (currently completed
filming)
*Elizabethtown (2005) (currently in
post-production)
*Wiseguys and Beyond: Italian Americans and the
Movies (2005) (documentary) (currently filming)
*A Whale in Montana (2005) (currently filming)
*Irresistible (film)|Irresistible (2005)
(currently filming)
*Manatee: The Forgotten Mermaid (2005) (short
subject) (narrator) (currently in production)
*Mr. Woodcock (2006) (currently announced start of
production)

==External links==

* imdb name|id=0000215|name=Susan Sarandon
* http://www.piccas.com/?Susan%20Sarandon Susan
Sarandon at Piccas Fansite