Susan Sarandon is a famous Hollywood actress and producer with a successful career spanning over 40 years. Her list includes more than 150 works in films and TV series. The most popular films starring Susan Sarandon are Joe, Hunger, Thelma and Louise, Stepmother, Let's Dance, Cloud Atlas, and the TV series Feud, starring Jessica Lange.
Susan Sarandon biography
Susan Sarandon (real name - Susan Abigail Tomalin) was born on October 4, 1946 in New York, USA into a large family. She grew up surrounded by eight more brothers and sisters, and was the oldest of them. Susan's mother is Lenora Marie Tomalin. Father, Philip Leslie Tomalin, worked as an advertising executive and television producer. The actress has Italian, Irish and Welsh roots.
In 1964, Susan graduated from Edison High School and continued her studies at the private Catholic University of America, from which she graduated in 1968.
In 1982, the actress's parents divorced after 40 years of marriage.
Before connecting her life with acting, Susan worked as a hairdresser, waitress, telephone operator and cleaner.
In 1996, Susan Sarandon was included in the list of the 50 most beautiful women on the planet, and in 1997 - took 35th place in the rating "100 best actors and actresses of all time" according to the British magazine.
Susan Sarandon is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is also an activist, and has been seen supporting public opinion several times (for example, in the late 90s, the murder of an unarmed African immigrant by police and a protest against Trump's immigration policy in 2018).
Susan Sarandon's career
The future celebrity's acting career began by accident. Susan decided to support her husband, who came to the casting of the movie "Joe". Despite the actress's lack of desire to connect life with creative activity, Susan successfully passed the hearing and got the main supporting role.
Susan Sarandon's debut in the drama "Joe" in 1970 was successful: the film paid off at the box office, and the aspiring actress received warm reviews from film critics and received proposals for new film projects.
Susan has appeared in various films, and in 1975 she played the role of Janet Weiss in the musical black comedy The Rocky Horror Show.
The actress was very active in film projects, several films with her participation were released a year.
In 1977, Susan portrayed Katherine Alexander, a sweet and gullible young girl caught up in a web of love intrigue, revenge and murder in The Other Side of Midnight.
In 1980, the mafia melodrama "Atlantic City", received positive reviews from film critics and the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. Sarandon was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the film.
In 1983, the actress appeared alongside Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in the romantic horror film Hunger, which tells the story of a love triangle between a doctor and a vampire couple. Despite the lukewarm reviews for the movie, The Hunger soon became a cult film.
Susan Sarandon starred as one of the three devil temptresses in the black comedy The Eastwick Witches opposite Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer in 1987.
In 1990, the actress performed the image of an independent woman "over 40" in the melodrama "White Palace", which had an affair with a young guy who had lost a loved one. Interestingly, Susan was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress, but that year the award went to Katie Bates for her role in the thriller Misery.
For her superb performance in the 1992 biographical drama Lorenzo's Oil, Sarandon was nominated for an Oscar. The story in the film revolves around one family, in the center of which is a terminally ill child, but his parents find a way to save his life.
In 1994, the actress won a British Academy Award for her leading role in the crime detective The Client.
Together with Gina Davis, the actress played in the crime drama Thelma and Louise. The film received a high rating from film critics and became one of the best in the career of Susan Sarandon. It is noteworthy that Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep wanted to star in this film together, but later chose to shoot in the black comedy "Death Becomes Her".
The first, and so far the only "Oscar" in the list of awards for the actress for the best performed image, Susan Sarandon received for her role as a nun in the crime drama "Dead Man Walking", where she starred with Sean Penn in 1995.
In 1998, the comedy drama Stepmother was released, where the actress co-starred with Julia Roberts, and was even nominated for a Golden Globe for her wonderful acting. The plot touches on the story of a family facing the problem of divorce.
Best films with an actress after the 2000s
Among the most popular films with Susan Sarandon over the past 18 years:
- melodrama "Elizabethtown" with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst (2005);
- melodrama "Handsome Alfie, or what men want" with Jude Law (2004);
- melodrama Let's Dance with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez (2004);
- drama Lovely Bones (2009);
- biographical drama "You Don't Know Jack" with Al Pacino (2010);
- the thriller Vicious Passion with Richard Gere and Laetitia Casta (2012);
- science fiction "Cloud Atlas" with Tom Hanks (2012);
- crime thriller "Vocation" (2013);
- biographical series "Feud" (2017).
Despite her rather venerable age, the talented actress is in great demand in the film industry. Susan Sarandon is scheduled to work in motion pictures for several years in advance.
Susan Sarandon's personal life
The actress married actor Chris Sarandon, whom she met while still at university, in 1967. But in 1979, the couple divorced, but Susan left her husband's last name as a pseudonym.
Met David Bowie, Sean Penn.
Susan Sarandon was in a relationship with Italian director Franco Amurri, from whom in 1985 was born daughter Eva Amurri-Martino - now also an actress.
From 1988 to 2009 she was in a civil marriage with Tim Robbinson. The actress had two sons - Jack Henry and Miles.
Susan Sarandon also has a grandson and granddaughter.
