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About Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress.Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York, New York, she attended The Catholic University of America in 1964, where she met and married fellow student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce fifteen years later while still retaining her married name as her stage name. After the 1968 Democratic National Convention, she went to a cattle call for the film Joe with Chris and, although he did not get a part, Susan received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld (the film was released in 1970). She did not follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin' Molly; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham. It was while filming that movie that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she established a relationship that continues to this day (as of 2005). Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), The Banger Sisters (2002) and Shall We Dance (2004). Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri (born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry (born 1989 and named for noted murderer/writer Jack Henry Abbott) and Miles (born 1992) by Robbins. Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their involvement in leftist political causes. Academy Awards and nominations 1996 Won Dead Man Walking 1995 Nominated The Client 1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil 1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise 1981 Nominated Atlantic City Filmography ... aka Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole (Canada: English title) ... aka Prison de glace (Canada: French title) ... aka Dune - Bedrohung des Imperiums (Germany: second part title) ... aka Dune - Der Messias (Germany: first part title) ... aka Dune - Die Kinder des Wüstenplaneten (Germany: third part title) ... aka Dune - Krieg um den Wüstenplaneten (Germany: cut version) ... aka Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (USA: complete title) ... aka Rugrats in Paris - Der Film (Germany) ... aka Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (USA: short title) ... aka Illuminata (Spain) ... aka The January Man (USA: poster title) ... aka Ich und der Duce (West Germany) ... aka Io e il duce (Italy) ... aka Mussolini and I "A.D." (1985) (mini) TV Series .... Livilla ... aka A.D. - Anno Domini ... aka American Playhouse: Who Am I This Time? (USA: series title) ... aka Atlantic City (USA) ... aka Perfect Love (USA: video title) ... aka The Great Smokey Roadblock (USA: new title) ... aka Crash ... aka One Summer Love (USA: reissue title) ... aka The Apprentice ... aka Lady Liberty (USA) ... aka The Sausage (Italy) Trivia Personal Quotes "I choose projects I can talk about for days because now you do publicity for as long as it took you to shoot the movie." "I feel I've always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost." "Sexuality ... is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get... If you can continue to say yes to life and to maintain a certain generosity of spirit, you become more and more of who you are." "I think the only reason I remain an actor is that you can never quite get it right. So there is a challenge to it." "If I were 22 and trying to build a career, I don't know who'd be watching the kids as happily as I do. It takes so much to get me to break out of domestic paradise. There's hardly anything that interests me as much as my family." On Thelma & Louise after her nomination for best actress, 1992, "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the option of violence was hard for a lot of people to accept." "People will like you for the wrong reasons your entire life, even if you don't have parents who are celebrities. They will like you because you have a car or you have money or your breasts are big." "You're so lucky in Ireland, England and Spain. Everyone there already knows what it's like to have inexplicable terrorist violence." "The thing that's bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It'd be nice if you could have both. Anyway, I think my breasts have been highly overrated." "The largest party in the United States is the 50 percent who don't vote." "It's always so painful to watch yourself. That never changes. I still sit there and think, 'Oh, that scene is missing? Wasn't I good? What happened there?'" "I haven't yet had any plastic surgery, but I won't knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It's hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that's huge. You can see every single line. But I think it's an aesthetic choice for the individual. I don't like it when surgeons take a perfectly interesting looking woman and she ends up looking like a female impersonator with these gigantic breasts. It's just so extreme and that worries me. I think everyone is looking the same." "My children were embarrassed at my Lincoln Center Tribute. I forgot they would show film clips and my children hadn't seen anything. Every time something a little racy would come on like 'The Hunger,' I'd look at my 13-year-old, who was shielding his eyes." "I'm certainly not an expert, but Tim and I just celebrated 17 years together, which in Hollywood years I think is 45. I think the key is just focusing on this one person and not keeping one eye on the door to see who might be better." "I never think about humiliating myself. I keep focusing on wanting to do a good job." "I remember going to great lengths to celebrate disappointments like not getting a job. I'd take whatever little cash I had and go out to dinner. I saw loss as an opportunity to change direction." "It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. I do a lot of smaller parts that I find interesting - as opposed to the big, splashy movies that you get paid more money for." "I didn't realize that everything was supposed to fall apart at 40. So I just slid past 40 and 50. When you're an outsider and not paying attention to the rules the hurdles are a little lower." "I think the good news and the bad news is Hollywood's not political. The only thing they punish you for is getting old and fat." Source: wikipedia.org, imdb.com |
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