Susan Sarandon's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Who Do You Think You Are? (US) Susan Saran… Independent Lens Susan Saran… Fridays Susan Saran… Hi-Jinks Susan Saran… VH1 Divas Susan Saran… Parkinson (UK) Susan Saran… Bravo Profiles Susan Saran… Clive Anderson All Talk (UK) Susan Saran… Oxbridge Blues (UK) Natalie

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010 - Peacock 2009 - The Lovely Bones 2009 - The Greatest 2008 - Middle of Nowhere 2008 - Speed Racer 2007 - Enchanted 2007 - Manufacturing Dissent 2007 - Mr. Woodcock 2007 - In the Valley of Elah 2007 - Emotional Arithmetic 2006 - Irresistible 2005 - Elizabethtown 2005 - Romance & Cigarettes 2004 - Alfie 2004 - Shall We Dance 2004 - Noel 2002 - The Banger Sisters 2002 - Moonlight Mile 2001 - Cats & Dogs 2000 - Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II 1999 - Anywhere But Here 1998 - Twilight 1998 - Stepmom 1996 - James and the Giant Peach 1995 - Dead Man Walking 1994 - The Client 1994 - Little Women 1992 - Lorenzo's Oil 1992 - The Player 1992 - Light Sleeper 1992 - Bob Roberts 1991 - Thelma & Louise 1989 - A Dry White Season 1989 - The January Man 1988 - Bull Durham 1987 - The Witches of Eastwick 1983 - The Hunger 1982 - Tempest 1980 - Atlantic City 1978 - King of the Gypsies 1978 - Pretty Baby 1975 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 - The Great Waldo Pepper 1974 - The Front Page

BIOGRAPHY:

It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon (I), who had studied to be an actor, was passed over. His wife Susan got a major role.

That role was as Susan Compton, the daughter of ad executive Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick (I)). In the movie Dad Bill kills Susan's drug dealer boyfriend and next befriends Joe (Peter Boyle (I))-- a bigot who works on an assembly line and who collects guns.

Five years later, Sarandon made the film where fans of cult classics have come to know her as Janet, who gets entangled with transvestite Dr. Frank n Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). More than 15 years after beginning her career Sarandon at last actively campaigned for a great role, Annie in Bull Durham (1988), flying at her own expense from Rome to Los Angeles. "It was such a wonderful script ... and did away with a lot of myths and challenged the American definition of success", she said. "When I got there, I spent some time with Kevin Costner, kissed some ass at the studio and got back on a plane". Her romance with the Bull Durham (1988) supporting actor, Tim Robbins (I), had produced two sons by 1992 and put Sarandon in the position of leaving her domestic paradise only to accept roles that really challenged her. The result was four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s and best actress for Dead Man Walking (1995). Her first Academy Award nomination was for Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980).


TRIVIA:

• Was involved in the effort to have 'Laura Schlessinger' (qv)'s television show taken off the air in 2000, because of her disagreement with Schlessinger's conservative views. The effort was successful in leading many sponsors to drop their support of the show, which was ultimately cancelled less than a year after its premiere.
• Is of Italian and Welsh heritage.
• Received a 1979 Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her Off-Broadway debut opposite Eileen Brennan in playwright John Ford Noonan's two-character piece, "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking.".
• Landed her first Hollywood role when her then-husband, 'Chris Sarandon (I)' (qv), took her along on one of his auditions.
• Has two children by 'Tim Robbins (I)' (qv), 'Jack Henry Robbins' (qv) (b. May 1989) and 'Miles Robbins (I)' (qv) (b. May 1992).
• In 1916, her grandfather Giuseppe Criscione emigrated to the USA from Ragusa in Sicily, where he was born in 1901. Now she is honorary citizen of Ragusa and the city gave her the "Ragusani nel Mondo" award.
• Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2008 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film _Mr. Woodcock (2007)_ (qv). She failed to receive a nomination however.
• Friends with 'Don Johnson (I)' (qv) since _Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)_ (qv).