Biography
Innate Susan Abigail Tomalaround in New York City to Welsh-American Phillip Leslie Tomalin and Italian-American Lenora Marie Criscione. She attended The Catholic University of America in 1964, where she met & married fellow student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce fifteen years later when however retaining her married title when her stage name.

Fallowing a 1968 Democratic National Convention, she went to the cattle call for the film Joe with Chris and, although he did non become a a portion, Susan received a major role of a ill-affected teenaged world health organization disappears into the seedy underworld (the film was freed around 1970). She did non pursue the profits of that picture, ingesting roles inside lesser films like ''Lovin' Molly; it was five thomas more years prior to she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic. That equivalent season, she as well played a female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford.

She was nominated for an Oscar inside 1980 for Atlantic City, but was however non the "household name" until a 1988 film Bull Durham. It was when filming that flick that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she established the relationship that continues to this day (when of 2005).

Sarandon received little joe Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning around 1996 for Dead Man Walking.

Her recent moving picture include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock'' (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), The Banger Sisters (2002) and Shall We Dance (2004).

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

Politics

Sarandon & Robbins come besides noted for their involvement around far leftwing & liberal political drives.

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

Filmography
Joe (1970) Lady Liberty (1971) Fleur bleue (The Apprentice) (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) (teller) 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) (teller) The Client (1994) Little Women (1994) Safe Passage (1994) The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary) Dead Man Walking (1995) Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996) (documentary) (storyteller) James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice) The Need to Know (1997) (documentary) (teller) Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins (1997) (documentary) (teller) 187: Documented (1997) (documentary) (storyteller) 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) (teller) This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) (documentary) (storyteller) Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (voice) Uphill All the Way (2001) (documentary) (teller) 900 Women (2001) (documentary) (teller) The Shaman's Apprentice (2001) (documentary) (narrator) Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice) Rudyland (2001) (documentary) (teller) Ghosts of Attica (2001) (narrator) Last Party 2000 (2001) (documentary) Goodnight Moon (2001) (short subject) (narrator) This Child of Mine (2002) (documentary) (storyteller) 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) (storyteller) Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2003) (documentary) (teller) 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 inside post-production) Wiseguys and Beyond: Italian Americans and the Movies (2005) (documentary) (presently filming) A Whale in Montana (2005) (currently filming) Irresistible (2005) (currently filming) Manatee: The Forgotten Mermaid (2005) (short subject) (narrator) (presently within production) Mr. Woodcock'' (2006) (currently announced start of production)