| Susan Sarandon  AKA Susan Abigail Tomalin
Born: 4-Oct-1946
Birthplace: Jackson Heights, 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, St. Petersburg Times)
Husband: Chris Sarandon (actor, b. 24-Jul-1942, m. 16-Sep-1967, div. 1979)
Boyfriend: Louis Malle (director, dated early 1980s)
Boyfriend: Sean Penn (actor, dated 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, cohabiting since 1988, two sons)
Son: Jack Henry Robbins (b. 15-May-1989)
Son: Miles Guthrie Robbins (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
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
Speed Racer (28-Apr-2008)
Enchanted (20-Oct-2007)
Bernard and Doris (17-Oct-2007)
Mr. Woodcock (14-Sep-2007)
In the Valley of Elah (1-Sep-2007)
Irresistible (18-Apr-2006)
Romance & Cigarettes (6-Sep-2005)
Elizabethtown (4-Sep-2005)
The Exonerated (27-Jan-2005)
Alfie (22-Oct-2004)
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)
Moonlight Mile (9-Sep-2002)
The Banger Sisters (8-Sep-2002)
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
Joe Gould's Secret (21-Jan-2000)
Anywhere But Here (17-Sep-1999)
Cradle Will Rock (18-May-1999)
Earthly Possessions (20-Mar-1999)
Our Friend, Martin (1999) [VOICE]
Stepmom (15-Dec-1998)
Illuminata (21-May-1998)
Twilight (6-Mar-1998)
James and the Giant Peach (12-Apr-1996) [VOICE]
Dead Man Walking (29-Dec-1995)
The Celluloid Closet (13-Sep-1995) Herself
Little Women (21-Dec-1994)
Safe Passage (Dec-1994)
The Client (20-Jul-1994)
Lorenzo's Oil (30-Dec-1992)
Bob Roberts (4-Sep-1992)
Light Sleeper (21-Aug-1992)
The Player (3-Apr-1992) Herself
Thelma & Louise (24-May-1991)
White Palace (19-Oct-1990)
A Dry White Season (10-Sep-1989)
January Man (13-Jan-1989)
Sweet Hearts Dance (23-Sep-1988)
Bull Durham (15-Jun-1988)
The Witches of Eastwick (12-Jun-1987)
Compromising Positions (30-Aug-1985)
The Buddy System (1984)
The Hunger (29-Apr-1983)
Tempest (13-Aug-1982)
Who Am I This Time? (2-Feb-1982)
Atlantic City (2-Sep-1980)
Pretty Baby (5-Apr-1978)
King of the Gypsies (1978)
The Other Side of Midnight (21-Oct-1977)
Checkered Flag or Crash (3-Jun-1977)
The Great Waldo Pepper (08-Sep-1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (14-Aug-1975)
The Front Page (17-Dec-1974)
Lovin' Molly (14-Apr-1974)
Joe (15-Jul-1970)
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