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Main Movie Roles 2014 - Tammy 2010 - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010 - Peacock 2009 - The Lovely Bones 2009 - The Greatest 2008 - Speed Racer 2008 - Middle of Nowhere 2007 - Manufacturing Dissent 2007 - Mr. Woodcock 2007 - Emotional Arithmetic 2007 - Enchanted 2007 - In the Valley of Elah 2006 - Irresistible 2005 - Romance & Cigarettes 2005 - Elizabethtown 2004 - Shall We Dance 2004 - Alfie 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 - Stepmom 1998 - Twilight 1996 - James and the Giant Peach 1995 - Dead Man Walking 1994 - The Client 1994 - Little Women 1992 - Bob Roberts 1992 - The Player 1992 - Lorenzo's Oil 1992 - Light Sleeper 1991 - Thelma & Louise 1989 - The January Man 1989 - A Dry White Season 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 Great Waldo Pepper 1975 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 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:

• In 1991 and 1992 she was the New York Film Critics Circle's runner-up pick for their annual best actress of the year prize. In 1991, she was chosen the runner-up for her landmark performance as half of the now-iconic duo in director Ridley Scott's modern-day western "Thelma & Louise". In 1992, she was the group's runner-up for her heartbreaking turn in director George Miller's fact-based drama "Lorenzo's Oil".
• Graduated from Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey where she was a cheerleader.
• Is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
• She keeps her Oscar in the bathroom.
• Received the "World Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 2006 Women's World Award in New York.
• Her grandmother had her mother when she was 13 years old. Her mother grew up in the care of nuns in an institute, abandoned at two.
• Very good friends with fellow actress 'Julia Roberts (I)' (qv).
• One of eight women, also among them 'Sophia Loren' (qv) and author 'Isabel Allende' (qv), carrying the Olympic flag at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Turin (10 February 2006).