The Susan Sarandon Handbook - Everything you need to know about Susan Sarandon

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Susan Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress.

She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking.

She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work.

She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.

This book is your ultimate resource for Susan Sarandon. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away: King of the Gypsies (film), Something Short of Paradise, Atlantic City (1980 film), Loving Couples (1980 film), Tempest (1982 film), The Hunger (film), Who Am I This Time? (film), The Buddy System (film), Compromising Positions, Women of Valor, The Witches of Eastwick (film), Bull Durham, Sweet Hearts Dance, The January Man, A Dry White Season, White Palace (film), Thelma & Louise, The Player, Light Sleeper, Bob Roberts, Lorenzo's Oil, The Client (film), Little Women (1994 film), Safe Passage (film), Dead Man Walking (film), James and the Giant Peach (film), Twilight (1998 film), Illuminata (film), Stepmom (film), Our Friend, Martin, Cradle Will Rock, Anywhere but Here (film), Joe Gould's Secret (film), Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Cats & Dogs, Igby Goes Down, Moonlight Mile (film), The Banger Sisters, Ice Bound, Noel (film), Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Shall We Dance? (2004 film), Alfie (2004 film), Elizabethtown (film), Romance & Cigarettes, Irresistible (film), Mr. Woodcock, In the Valley of Elah, Enchanted (film), Emotional Arithmetic, Bernard and Doris, Speed Racer (film), Middle of Nowhere (film), The Greatest (2009 film), Peacock (2010 film), Leaves of Grass (film), Solitary Man (film), The Lovely Bones (film), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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• EAN13: 9781743447512
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Contents

Articles Susan Sarandon

King of the Gypsies (film) Something Short of Paradise Atlantic City (1980 film) Loving Couples (1980 film) Tempest (1982 film) The Hunger (film) Who Am I This Time? (film) The Buddy System (film) Compromising Positions Women of Valor The Witches of Eastwick (film) Bull Durham Sweet Hearts Dance The January Man A Dry White Season White Palace (film) Thelma & Louise The Player Light Sleeper Bob Roberts Lorenzo's Oil The Client (film) Little Women (1994 film) Safe Passage (film) Dead Man Walking (film) James and the Giant Peach (film) Twilight (1998 film) Illuminata (film) Stepmom (film) Our Friend, Martin Cradle Will Rock Anywhere but Here (film) Joe Gould's Secret (film)

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Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Cats & Dogs Igby Goes Down Moonlight Mile (film) The Banger Sisters Ice Bound Noel (film) Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Shall We Dance? (2004 film) Alfie (2004 film) Elizabethtown (film) Romance & Cigarettes Irresistible (film) Mr. Woodcock In the Valley of Elah Enchanted (film) Emotional Arithmetic Bernard and Doris Speed Racer (film) Middle of Nowhere (film) The Greatest (2009 film) Peacock (2010 film) Leaves of Grass (film) Solitary Man (film) The Lovely Bones (film) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

Born

Occupation

Years active

Spouse

Partner

Children

Susan Sarandon

Sarandon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival Susan Abigail TomalinOctober 4, 1946New York City, New York, U.S.

Actress

1969–present

Chris Sarandon (1967–1979, divorced)

Tim Robbins (1986–2009, separated)

Eva Amurri Jack Robbins Miles Robbins

Susan SarandonOctober 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969,(born and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 filmDead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.

Early life [1] Sarandon, the eldest of nine children in a Roman Catholic family, was born asSusan Abigail Tomalinin New York City, as the daughter of Leonora Marie (n`e Criscione) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin (26 September 1917–26 March 1999), who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and nightclub singer during the big band [2] [3] era. Sarandon's father was of English, Irish and Welsh ancestry, and her Italian American mother's ancestors [2] [4] [5] [1] emigrated from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily. Sarandon attended Roman Catholic schools. She grew [6] [7] up in Edison, New Jersey, where she graduated from Edison High School in 1964. She then attended The Catholic University of America, from 1964 to 1968, and earned a BA in drama and worked with noted drama coach and master teacher, Father Gilbert V. Hartke.

Career In 1969, Sarandon went to a casting call for the motion-pictureJoe, with her then-husband Chris Sarandon. Although he did not get a part, she was cast in a major role of a disaffected teen, who disappears into the seedy underworld. (The film was released in 1970). Between the years 1970 and 1972, Sarandon played Patrice Kahlman on the short-lived soap operaA World Apart, and onSearch for Tomorrow, in the role of Sarah Fairbanks. She appeared in Fleur bleue (The Apprentice)(1971) and also appeared inLady Liberty(1971), by Mario Monicelli, opposite Sophia Loren.

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In 1974, she co-starred inThe Front Page, with the comedy duo Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau andLovin' Molly with Anthony Perkins. She appeared in the cult favorite musicalThe Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975). That same year, she played the female lead inThe Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. In 1978, Sarandon played the mother of a child prostitute, who was played by Brooke Shields, inPretty Baby. Her most controversial film appearance was inThe Hungerin 1983, a modern vampire story in which she had a lesbian sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. The film was a critical and commercial flop but gained a cult following. Sarandon played one of the leads in the 1987 dark comedy/fantasy filmThe Witches of Eastwick, opposite Jack Nicholson. Sarandon starred in the 1988 filmBull Durham, which became a huge commercial and critical success. In 1989, she co-starred with Marlon Brando inA Dry White Season.

Susan Sarandon's hand and foot prints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Sarandon received five Academy Award nominations, for best actress, inAtlantic City(1980),Thelma & Louise(1991),Lorenzo's Oil(1992) andThe Client(1994). In 1995, she won the award for her performance inDead Man Walking.

Additional performances in film include Little Women (1994), Compromising Positions,Stepmom(1998),Anywhere but Here(1999), Cradle Will Rock(1999),The Banger Sisters(2002),Shall We Dance (2004),Alfie(2004),Romance & Cigarettes(2005),Elizabethtown (2005) andEnchanted(2007).

Sarandon has appeared in two episodes ofThe Simpsons, one as herself ("Bart Has Two Mommies") and another as a ballet teacher, "Homer vs. Patty and Selma". She has made appearances on comedies such asFriends,Malcolm in the Middle,Mad TV,Saturday Night Live,Chappelle's Show,30 Rock, andRescue Me. Sarandon has contributed the narration to some two dozen documentary film, many of which dealt with social and political issues; in addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, Independent Lens. In 2007, she hosted and presentedMythos, a series of lectures by the late American mythology [8] professor Joseph Campbell. Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation ofThe Lovely Bones, opposite Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her [9] [10] daughter, Eva Amurri, inMiddle of Nowhere; both of the movies were filmed in 2007. In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of new HBO pilotThe Miraculous Year. She will play the role of Patty [11] Atwood, a Broadway director/choreographer.

Personal life Sarandon began a relationship with fellow college student Chris Sarandon, in 1964, and they married on September [12] 16, 1967. After their separation, Sarandon discussed their relationship in an interview withCosmopolitan [13] magazine in 1978, in which she stated "I no longer believe in marriage." They divorced in 1979 and she retained [14] Sarandon as her stage name. In the late 1970s, Sarandon had a two-year relationship with director Louis Malle, who directed her inPretty Baby [12] andAtlantic City. In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated director Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter in 1985, actress Eva [14] Amurri. [15] From 1986 to 2009, Sarandon was in a relationship with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while she filmedBull [14] Durham. They had two sonsa—Jack Henry (born 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born 1992).

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Sarandon and Robbins often worked together on the same social and political causes. In 2006, Sarandon received the [16] Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award. She was honored for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, an advocate for victims of hunger and HIV/AIDS and a spokesperson for Heifer International. Sarandon also participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival that is [17] dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18. In 2006, Sarandon and 10 of her relatives (including her then-partner Tim Robbins and her son Miles) travelled to Wales to trace her family's Welsh [5] genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme,Coming Home: Susan Sarandon. In 2006, she also received the "Ragusani nel mondo" prize, since she had recently discovered her Sicilian roots, in Ragusa, Italy. One of her favorite hobbies is playing table tennis. She is involved in a New York Table Tennis Club, Spin; a club [18] that she frequents when she doesn't film.

Political activism Sarandon is noted for her active support of progressive and left-liberal political causes, ranging from donations made [19] to organizations such as EMILY's List, to participating in a 1983 delegation to Nicaragua sponsored by MADRE, [20] an organization that promotes "social, environmental and economic justice." Sarandon has also expressed support [21] for various human rights causes that are similar philosophically to ideas found among the Christian left. In 1995, Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers who were interviewed for the documentaryThe Celluloid Closet,which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality. In 1999, she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In that capacity, she has actively supported the organization's global advocacy, as well as the work of the Canadian UNICEF Committee. During the 2000 election, Sarandon supported Ralph Nader's run for President, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of [22] Nader 2000. During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several "Nader 2000 Leaders" who signed a petition [23] that urged voters to vote for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. After the 2004 election, Sarandon called for US elections to be [24] monitored by international entities.

Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against the [25] concept of the war as a pre-emptive strike. Prior to a 2003 protest sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, she said that many Americans"do not want to risk their children or the children of Susan Sarandon in April 2007 [26] Iraq". Sarandon was one of the first to appear in a series of political ads sponsored by TrueMajority, an organization established by Ben & [27] [28] Jerry's Ice Cream founder Ben Cohen. Also in 2003, Sarandon appeared in a "Love is Love is Love" commercial, which promoted the acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals. [29] In 2004, she served on the advisory committee for the group 2004 Racism Watch. She hosted a section of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2005. In 2006, she was one of eight women who were selected to carry in the Olympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, in Turin, Italy. Along with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006 Mother's Day protest, which was [30] [31] sponsored by Code Pink; she has expressed interest in portraying Sheehan in a movie. In January 2007, she appeared with Robbins and Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. in support of a Congressional [32] measure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.

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Dragonfly

1976

Filmography

1980

Atlantic City

1970

Joe

1974

Lovin' Molly

aka "Fleur bleue" (in Canada)

Chloe

Catherine Alexander Douglas

aka "One Summer Love" (USA: reissue title)

Mary Beth

Sally

Peggy Grant

Sarah

Janet Weiss

Elizabeth Hawkins

Role

Notes

Melissa Compton

Susan Sarandon

Pretty Baby

Hattie

The Great Smokey Roadblock

Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress

Who Am I This Time?

1983

Dr. Sarah Roberts

Sally Matthews

The Great Waldo Pepper

The Front Page

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Title

King of the Gypsies

1975

1975

Lady Liberty

1971

1971

Stephanie

Aretha Tomalin

The Apprentice

[33] In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Sarandon and Tim Robbins campaigned for John Edwards in the New [34] [35] Hampshire communities of Hampton, Bedford and Dover. When asked at We Vote '08 Kickoff Party "What [36] would Jesus do this primary season", Sarandon said, "I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards." [37] On March 12, 2011 Susan spoke before a crowd in Madison WI during a protest of Governer Scott Walker and his "Budget Repair Bill".

C.C. Wainwright

Rose

Ginny

Madeline Ross

Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress

Judith Singer

Emily

Jane Spofford

1984

1986

Col. Margaret Ann Jessup

Tempest

1982

1980

1983

The Hunger

Films

Helene Shaw

Year

Loving Couples

The Other Side of Midnight

Checkered Flag or Crash

The Buddy System

The Witches of Eastwick

Women of Valor

1985

1987

1977

1977

4

1977

1974

Compromising Positions

Something Short of Paradise

1979

1978

1978

Margherita Sarfatti

1992

1996

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Our Friend, Martin

1999

Melanie Bruwer

Louise Elizabeth Sawyer

Sweet Hearts Dance

1988

Christine Starkey

Miss Spider

1995

Dead Man Walking

Sister Helen Prejean

voice

Michaela Odone

Regina 'Reggie' Love

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

voice

Margaret 'Mag' Singer

Nora Baker

Alice Neel

Adele August

Coco LaBouche

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Annie Savoy

Sandra Boon

Margaret 'Marmee' March

Academy Award for Best Actress Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama

1989

1991

White Palace

1990

1989

Safe Passage

2000

1999

Anywhere but Here

1999

2000

Cradle Will Rock

1994

Little Women

1994

1988

Susan Sarandon

Bull Durham

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama

Herself

Ann

1992

Tawna Titan

The Player

Joe Gould's Secret

James and the Giant Peach

Illuminata

Twilight

1998

1998

1998

Stepmom

Light Sleeper

The Client

The January Man

A Dry White Season

Jackie Harrison

Mrs. Clark

Calimene

Catherine Ames

Bob Roberts

1994

Lorenzo's Oil

1992

1992

David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (shared with Geena Davis) London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (also forWhite Palace) National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (shared with Geena Davis) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama

Thelma & Louise

voice (direct-to-video)

5

San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama

London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (also forThelma & Louise) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama

2009

2009

Peacock

2009

The Greatest

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

2010

Middle of Nowhere

2009

2008

Solitary Man

The Lovely Bones

Leaves of Grass

2009

Melanie Lansing Winters

Elizabethtown

Igby Goes Down

Ivy

2002

2005

2003

Ice Bound

2007

Emotional Arithmetic

2007

Romance & Cigarettes

2005

2006

2007

In the Valley of Elah

Little Miss Spider

Irresistible

2007

Mr. Woodcock

Jojo Floss

Dr. Jerri Nielsen

Narrator

Lavinia Kingsley

Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress–Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress–Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Direct-to-video

Daisy Kincaid

Nancy

Sylvia Moore

Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

Grace Brewer

Mom Racer

2007

Grandma Lynn

Bernard and Doris

Fanny Crill

2008

Speed Racer

voice

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for | Moonlight Mile) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture

short subject

voice (short subject)

Rose Collins

Herself

Liz

Kitty

Sophie

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also forIgby Goes Down)

Beverly Farley

2001

Susan Sarandon

Goodnight Moon

Joan Deerfield

Enchanted

Cats & Dogs

Narrator

6

2001

2004

Alfie

Noel

2004

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

2004

2002

2002

2002

Shall We Dance

2004

Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress Nominated—Jutra Award for Best Actress

The Banger Sisters

Cameo

Moonlight Mile

Mimi Slocumb

Beverly Clark

Queen Narissa

Hollie Baylor

Doris Duke

Rhonda Berry

1 episode

Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress–Comedy Series

Cecilia Monroe/Jessica Lockhart

Earthly Possessions

Sarah Fairbanks

Malcolm in the Middle

2010

Television

Faerie Tale Theatre

1984

1982

A.D

1984

Oxbridge Blues

1985

TV movie

The Host

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Wide World Mystery

Search for Tomorrow

Cool Women In History

Bitsy

Col. Margaret Ann Jessup

Ballet Teacher

Meg

Susan Sarandon

Rescue Me

TV movie

Year

1972

1973

1971

Beauty

Livilla

Natalie

All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Chappelle's Show

2004

2004

1994

2005

Who Do You Think You [38] Are?

ER

2009

2006– 2007

The Exonerated

Pasty Johnson

Eileen

Troy: The Passion of Helen

1986

Women of Valor

Kate

herself

The Host

Season 3

Season 1 Nominated—Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Series

1974

1974

Who Am I This Time?

June Moon

The Satan Murders

2 episodes

TV movie

Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress–Comedy Series

2003

1 episode

Edda Mussolini Ciano

Sunny Jacobs

Princess Wensicia

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

2005

Mad TV

1970– 1971

The Simpsons

1995

Ailie Calhoun

Mussolini and I

Charlotte Emory

1985

The Rimers of Eldritch

1974

1974

Helene Shaw

F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'

TV mini-series

episodeThe Haunting of Rosalind

TV movie

TV movie

TV mini-series

TV movie

A World Apart

Role

Friends

unknown episodes

Patrice Kahlman

Notes

TV movie

1 episode

Title

Joyce

1 episode

1 episode

TV movie

1999

2001

2001

TV miniseries

7

herself

Alicia

Nora

2002