SUSAN SARANDON BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Susan Sarandon was born on October 4th, 1946 in New York City, New York with the birth name Susan Abigail Tomalin, born to Lenora Marie and Phillip Leslie Tomalin. She was the oldest of nine children and grew up in a family involved in entertainment. Her father used to perform as a singer at various night clubs and worked as a television producer. In 1982, after forty years of marriage, her parents separated.
She was raised in Edison, New Jersey and received her early years education from a number or Roman Catholic Schools. She earned her high school diploma from Edison High in 1964 and then enrolled at the Catholic University of America. It was while at college that she met her only husband, actor, Chris Sarandon whom she wed in 1967.
Sarandon was not an actress and never had any intentions of pursuing a career in the industry, however, when she attended a casting call with her husband for a film called, "Joe" (1970), she ended up being chosen for the film and her husband was not cast.
Soon she was working in the industry as well appearing on television in such series as, "A World Apart" (1970-1971), "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law" (1971) and "Search for Tomorrow" (1972).
By 1974 she added two more films to her resume, "Lovin' Molly" and "The Front Page". Soon more successful film roles succeeded such as, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975), "Pretty Baby" (1978) and "Atlantic City" (1980), a role for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Although, she was long divorced from her actor husband, she remained in the industry and continued adding successful feature films to her credits such as, "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987), "Bull Durham" (1988), "A Dry White Season" (1989), "White Palace" (1990), "Thelma & Louise" (1991), "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992) and "The Client" (1994), for which the last three mentioned films also awarded her with three more Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.
In 1995, she finally won the best Actress award for her role in the film, "Dead Man Walking". More recently, she has appeared in the films, "Romance & Cigarettes" (2005), "Elizabethtown" 92005), "Enchanted" (2007), "The Lovely Bones" (2007), and "Middle of Nowhere" (2007).
Sarandon has also added a variety of television roles to her resume such as, "Friends", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Saturday Night Live", "30 Rock" and in 2010 she joined the cast of the HBO series, "The Miraculous Year".
She has also narrated a number of documentaries and done voice over work on the television series, "The Simpsons" and the film, "Sonnet 22". Her most recent work includes the television series, "The Big C" (2012) and the films, "That's My Boy" (2012), "Irwin & Fran" (2012), "The Wedding" (2012), "Cloud Atlas" (2012), "The Company You Keep" (2012), "Hemlock Drive" (2012) and soon to release, "Snitch" and "Mother's Day" (both 2013).
In addition to her career as an actress she remains involved in a number of political and liberal causes. In 1999 she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is public with her support of various human right issues. She is an advocate for victims of hunger and HIV/AIDS and is also a spokesperson for Heifer International.
Susan Sarandon has never re-married, but does have one daughter from a relationship with an Italian filmmaker, Franco Amurri and two sons from another relationship with actor, Tim Robbins.
Filmography
2013 Mother's Day
2012 Hemlock Drive
2013 Snitch
2012 The Company You Keep
2012 Cloud Atlas
2012 The Wedding
2012 Irwin & Fran
2012 That's My Boy
2012 The Big C
2011-2012 30 Rock
2012 Arbitrage
2012 Robot and Frank
2011 Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2009-2011 Saturday Night Live
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011 The Miraculous Year
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010 Peacock
2010 You Don't Know Jack
2010 La Mama: An American Nun's Life in a Mexican Prison
2009 The Lovely Bones
2009 Solitary Man
2009 Leaves of Grass
2009 ER
2009 The Greatest
2008 Middle of Nowhere
2008 Speed Racer
2008 Classical Baby
2007 Enchanted
2007 Emotional Arithmetic
2007 Mr. Woodcock
2007 In the Valley of Elah
2006-2007 Rescue Me
2006 Bernard and Doris
2006 Irresistible
2005 Romance & Cigarettes
2005 Elizabethtown
2005 The Exonerated
2005 Sonnet 22
2004 Alfie
2004 Shall We Dance
2004 Noel
2003 Ice Bound
2003 Children of Dune
2003 Freedom: A History of Us
2002 Little Miss Spider
2002 Moonlight Mile
2002 The Banger Sisters
2002 Igby Goes Down
2002 Malcolm in the Middle
2001 Cats & Dogs
2001 Friends
2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
2000 Joe Gould's Secret
1999 Anywhere But Here
1999 Cradle Will Rock
1999 Earthly Possessions
1999 Our Friend, Martin
1999 Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1998 Stepmom
1998 For Love of Julian
1998 Illuminata
1998 Twilight
1997 The Need to Know
1996 James and the Giant Peach
1995 Dead Man Walking
1995 The Simpsons
1994 Safe Passage
1994 Little Women
1994 The Client
1994 All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994 School of the Americas Assassins
1992 Lorenzo's Oil
1992 Bob Roberts
1992 Light Sleeper
1991 Thelma & Louise
1990 White Palace
1989 A Dry White Season
1989 The January Man
1988 Sweet Hearts Dance
1988 Bull Durham
1987 The Witches of Eastwick
1986 Women of Valor
1985 Compromising Positions
1985 Mussolini and I
1985 A.D.
1984 Oxbridge Blues
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre
1984 The Buddy System
1983 The Hunger
1982 Tempest
1982 American Playhouse
1980 Loving Couples
1980 Atlantic City
1979 Something Short of Paradise
1978 King of the Gypsies
1978 Pretty Baby
1977 The Great Smokey Roadblock
1977 The Other Side of Midnight
1977 Checkered Flag or Crash
1976 Dragonfly
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1974-1975 Wide World Mystery
1975 The Great Waldo Pepper
1974 The Whirlwind
1974 The Front Page
1974 Lovin' Molly
1972-1974 Great Performances
1973 Calucci's Department
1972 Search for Tomorrow
1971 Lady Liberty
1971 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971 Fleur bleue
1970-1971 A World Apart
1970 Joe
