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- NAME: Susan Sarandon
- OCCUPATION: Film Actress
- BIRTH DATE: October 04, 1946 (Age: 65)
- EDUCATION: Edison High School, Catholic University of America
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York City, New York
- Maiden Name: Susan Tomalin
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
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Susan Sarandon is an American actress who starred in Thelma & Louise and Dead Man Walking. She is also a outspoken social and political activist.
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Synopsis
After a few film roles, Susan Sarandon landed a part in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), a campy musical, which gained a cult following. In the 1980s, she starred in The Witches of Eastwick and Bull Durham. With Geena Davis, she made one of her most memorable films,
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The only thing that gives me the courage to do things - because I'm a shy person - is the idea of living with myself afterward.
Thelma and Louise and then won Oscar for her performance in Dead Man Walking (1995). She is an outspoken liberal activist.
Profile
Actress, activist. Born on October 4, 1946, in New York City. Known as an actress and an activist, Susan Sarandon has shared with the world her dramatic talents and personal convictions. She graduated the Catholic University of America in 1968 and not long after made her first film Joe (1970). After a few other film roles, Sarandon landed a part in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), a campy musical, which has developed quite a cult following over the years.
Susan Sarandon earned her first Academy Award nomination for Atlantic City (1980) starring opposite screen legend Burt Lancaster. But her career really seemed to pick up steam later that decade with appearances in The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Bull Durham (1988). In The Witches of Eastwick, she played one of three women seduced by the devil (Jack Nicholson) and developed special powers. This comedic battle of good versus evil showed Sarandon’s talent for lighter fare. In Bull Durham, she played a smart and sexy baseball team owner who becomes involved with one of her players—Tim Robbins who would become her partner in real life.
With Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon made one of her most memorable films Thelma and Louise (1991), which centered on the friendship of two women on a road trip turned wrong. Her portrayal of the tough, protective, and somewhat broken Louise brought her another Academy Award nomination. Sarandon was also nominated for Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and The Client (1994). She played a nun in the gritty and powerful capital punishment drama Dead Man Walking (1995) and won her first Academy Award for her performance.
More recently, Sarandon took to the stage to appear in a revival of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King. She played Queen Marguerite to Geoffrey Rush's King Berenger in the critically acclaimed production. On the big screen, Sarandon has a supporting role in The Lovely Bones, a film adaptation of the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold.
Outspoken on many issues, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins included information on the plight of Haitian HIV-positive refugees during the 1993 Academy Awards ceremony where they appeared as presenters. In 2006, she was one of the celebrities that joined antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan in a fast against the war in Iraq.
Susan Sarandon has three children: a daughter from a relationship with writer Franco Amurri
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