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Susan Sarandon
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Sarandon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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Susan Abigail Tomalin
October 4, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S.
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Sarandon (1967–1979) |
| Partner(s) | Tim Robbins (1988–2009) |
| Children | 3 |
Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She was born in New York City and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. She has received many awards in her career for her work, including the Academy Award in 1995 for her role at the movie Dead Man Walking, written and directed by her partner, actor and director Tim Robbins.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1970 | Joe | Melissa Compton | |
| 1971 | Lady Liberty | Sally | |
| 1971 | The Apprentice | Elizabeth Hawkins | aka "Fleur bleue" (in Canada) |
| 1974 | Lovin' Molly | Sarah | |
| 1974 | The Front Page | Peggy Grant | |
| 1975 | The Great Waldo Pepper | Mary Beth | |
| 1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Janet Weiss | |
| 1976 | One Summer Love | Chloe | aka "Dragonfly" (USA: original title) |
| 1977 | Checkered Flag or Crash | C.C. Wainwright | |
| 1977 | The Other Side of Midnight | Catherine Alexander Douglas | |
| 1977 | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Ginny | |
| 1978 | Pretty Baby | Hattie | |
| 1978 | King of the Gypsies | Rose | |
| 1979 | Something Short of Paradise | Madeline Ross | |
| 1980 | Atlantic City | Sally Matthews | Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1980 | Loving Couples | Stephanie | |
| 1982 | Tempest | Aretha Tomalin | |
| 1983 | The Hunger | Dr. Sarah Roberts | |
| 1983 | Who Am I This Time? | Helene Shaw | |
| 1984 | The Buddy System | Emily | |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | ||
| 1985 | Compromising Positions | Judith Singer | |
| 1987 | The Witches of Eastwick | Jane Spofford | Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress |
| 1988 | Bull Durham | Annie Savoy | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1988 | Sweet Hearts Dance | Sandra Boon | |
| 1989 | The January Man | Christine Starkey | |
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | Melanie Bruwer | |
| 1990 | White Palace | Nora Baker | London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (also for Thelma & Louise) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1991 | Thelma & Louise | Louise Elizabeth Sawyer | David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (shared with Geena Davis) London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (also for White 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 |
| 1992 | Player | Herself | |
| 1992 | Light Sleeper | Ann | |
| 1992 | Bob Roberts | Tawna Titan | |
| 1992 | Lorenzo's Oil | Michaela Odone | 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 |
| 1994 | The Client | Regina 'Reggie' Love | 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 |
| 1994 | Little Women | Margaret 'Marmee' March | |
| 1994 | Safe Passage | Margaret 'Mag' Singer | |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean | 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 |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Miss Spider | voice |
| 1998 | Twilight | Catherine Ames | |
| 1998 | Illuminata | Calimene | |
| 1998 | Stepmom | Jackie Harrison | 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 |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Mrs. Clark | voice (direct-to-video) |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Margherita Sarfatti | |
| 1999 | Anywhere but Here | Adele August | |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Alice Neel | |
| 2000 | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Coco LaBouche | voice |
| 2001 | Cats & Dogs | Ivy | voice |
| 2001 | Goodnight Moon | Narrator | voice (short subject) |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down | Mimi Slocumb | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for | Moonlight Mile) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
| 2002 | The Banger Sisters | Lavinia Kingsley | |
| 2002 | Moonlight Mile | Jojo Floss | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Igby Goes Down) |
| 2002 | Little Miss Spider | Narrator | short subject |
| 2004 | Noel | Rose Collins | |
| 2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Herself | Cameo |
| 2004 | Shall We Dance | Beverly Clark | |
| 2004 | Alfie | Liz | |
| 2005 | Elizabethtown | Hollie Baylor | |
| 2005 | Romance & Cigarettes | Kitty | |
| 2006 | Irresistible | Sophie | |
| 2007 | Mr. Woodcock | Beverly Farley | |
| 2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Joan Deerfield | |
| 2007 | Enchanted | Queen Narissa | |
| 2007 | Emotional Arithmetic | Melanie Lansing Winters | Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress Nominated—Jutra Award for Best Actress |
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Mom Racer | |
| 2008 | Middle of Nowhere | Rhonda Berry | |
| 2009 | The Greatest | Grace Brewer | |
| 2009 | Peacock | Fanny Crill | Direct-to-video |
| 2009 | Leaves of Grass | Daisy Kincaid | |
| 2009 | Solitary Man | Nancy | |
| 2009 | The Lovely Bones | Grandma Lynn | Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Sylvia Moore | |
| 2012 | Jeff, Who Lives at Home | Sharon | |
| 2012 | That's My Boy | Mary McGarricle | post-production |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1970– 1971 |
A World Apart | Patrice Kahlman | |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | Joyce | 1 episode |
| 1972 | Search for Tomorrow | Sarah Fairbanks | unknown episodes |
| 1974 | F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' | Ailie Calhoun | television film |
| 1974 | The Satan Murders | Kate | television film |
| 1974 | June Moon | Eileen | television film |
| 1974 | The Rimers of Eldritch | Pasty Johnson | television film |
| 1975 | The Haunting of Rosalind | television film | |
| 1981 | Fridays | Herself | TV show. Special guest star |
| 1982 | Who Am I This Time? | Helene Shaw | television film |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Natalie | TV mini-series |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Beauty | 1 episode Beauty And The Beast |
| 1985 | A.D | Livilla | TV mini-series |
| 1985 | Mussolini and I | Edda Mussolini Ciano | television film |
| 1986 | Women of Valor | Col. Margaret Ann Jessup | television film |
| 1994 | All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Bitsy | |
| 1995 | The Simpsons | Ballet Teacher | 1 episode |
| 1999 | Earthly Possessions | Charlotte Emory | television film |
| 2001 | Friends | Cecilia Monroe/Jessica Lockhart | Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series |
| 2001 | Cool Women In History | The Host | Season 1 Nominated—Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Series |
| 2002 | Malcolm in the Middle | Meg | Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series |
| 2003 | Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole | Dr. Jerri Nielsen | television film |
| 2003 | Frank Herbert's Children of Dune | Princess Wensicia | TV miniseries |
| 2004 | Chappelle's Show | herself | Season 3 |
| 2004 | Troy: The Passion of Helen | The Host | |
| 2005 | The Exonerated | Sunny Jacobs | television film |
| 2005 | Mad TV | 2 episodes | |
| 2006– 2007 |
Rescue Me | Alicia | |
| 2007 | Bernard and Doris | Doris Duke | television film Nominated—Primetime 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 |
| 2009 | Saturday Night Live | Mother of Andy Samberg's character | SNL Digital Short - Motherlover |
| 2009 | ER | Nora | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Who Do You Think You Are? | herself | 1 episode |
| 2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Janet Good | television film Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2010 | Chelsea Lately | Herself | Appeared 7/20/2010 |
| 2010 | The Good Wife | Mrs. Joe Kent | Uncredited voice role, 10/27/2010 |
| 2011-2012 | 30 Rock | Lynn Onkman | 2 Episodes Queen of Jordan , Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky |
| 2011 | Saturday Night Live | Mother of Andy Samberg's character | SNL Digital Short - 3-Way (The Golden Rule) |
| 2012 | The Big C | Joy the Joyologist | Season 3, Episode 3, 4, and 5 |
| Year | Title | Role | |
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| 1983 | When the Mountains Tremble | ||
| 1990 | Through the Wire | narrator | |
| 1993 | Wildnerness: The Last Stand | narrator | |
| 1994 | School of the Americas Assassins | narrator | |
| 1995 | The Celluloid Closet | ||
| 1996 | Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press | narrator | |
| 1997 | The Need to Know | narrator | |
| 1997 | Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins | narrator | |
| 1997 | 187: Documented | narrator | |
| 1999 | For Love of Julian | narrator | |
| 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | ||
| 2000 | Iditarod: A Far Distant Place | narrator | |
| 2000 | Mythos | narrator | |
| 2000 | This Is What Democracy Looks Like | narrator | |
| 2000 | Dying to be Thin | narrator | |
| 2001 | Uphill All the Way | narrator | |
| 2001 | 900 Women | narrator | |
| 2001 | The Shaman's Apprentice | narrator | |
| 2001 | Rudyland | narrator | |
| 2001 | Islamabad: Rock City | narrator | |
| 2001 | Ghosts of Attica | narrator | |
| 2001 | Last Party 2000 | ||
| 2002 | The Next Industrial Revolution | narrator | |
| 2002 | Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | narrator | |
| 2003 | XXI Century | ||
| 2003 | The Nazi Officer's Wife | narrator | |
| 2003 | Burma: Anatomy of Terror | narrator | |
| 2003 | Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen | narrator | |
| 2004 | Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields | narrator | |
| 2005 | A Whale in Montana | narrator | |
| 2005 | On the Line: Dissent in an Age of Terrorism | ||
| 2006 | Secrets of the Code | narrator | |
| 2006 | Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars | narrator | |
| 2006 | Home | herself | |
| 2007 | This Child of Mine | narrator | |
| 2007 | World Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies | ||
| 2007 | Coming Home | Herself | |
| 2009 | PoliWood | Herself | |
| 2010 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Herself |
Images for kids
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Susan Sarandon's hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre