Susan Sarandon

About Susan Sarandon

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, 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). In the movie Dad Bill kills Susan's drug dealer boyfriend and next befriends Joe (Peter Boyle)-- 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 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, 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).::Dale O'Connor
As well known for her political activism as for her varied screen roles, actress Susan Sarandon defies being stereotyped in both her career and her personal life. The former Ford model, often playing seductive older women, has demonstrated throughout her career considerable range and fearlessness, excelling equally as devoted mother and sultry screen siren. Though her film debut was in 1970, Sarandon made her first measurable impression as the wide-eyed, WASP-ish ingénue in the long-running The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then achieved critical acclaim and an Oscar nod as a casino worker run afoul with the mob in Atlantic City (1980). But it was her performance as the sexy baseball groupie in Bull Durham (1988) that propelled her to stardom. What followed was a string of Oscar-nominated roles in Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and The Client (1994) that paved the way for Academy Award gold with a strong, dignified performance as a Catholic nun fighting for the redemption of a death row inmate (Sean Penn) in Dead Man Walking (1995). Though her career slacked a bit following that performance - especially in ill-received films like The Banger Sisters (2002) and Elizabethtown (2005) - Sarandon nonetheless keeps working as a sultry leading lady, well past the age most actresses find themselves struggling to maintain their careers.Born Oct. 4, 1946 in Jackson Heights, NY, Sarandon was raised the eldest of nine siblings by Phillip, a nightclub singer during the big band era who later became an advertising executive, and Lenora, a homemaker. She was a quiet, shy child who grew up in suburban Metuchen, NJ, where she attended Edison High School in nearby Edison. After graduation in 1964, she went to Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where she lacked direction or purpose, but did ...

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