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Introduction
Susan Sarandon is an American actress and activist. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a SAG Award, and has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry.
Sarandon made her Broadway debut in the play An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972) and went on to receive Drama Desk Award nominations for the Off-Broadway plays A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (1979) and Extremities (1982). She returned to Broadway in the 2009 revival of Exit the King.
She is a six-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, including for her guest roles on the sitcoms Friends (2001) and Malcolm in the Middle (2002), supporting role in the film You Don’t Know Jack (2010), as well as a leading role as Doris Duke in the film Bernard and Doris (2008) and another leading role as Bette Davis in the miniseries Feud (2017). Susan Sarandon is also known for her social and political activism, Sarandon was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006.
Early life
| Name | Susan Sarandon |
| Net Worth | $60 million |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Height | 1.73m |
| Age | 75 years |
Susan Abigail Sarandon Tomalin was born on October 4, 1946 (age 75 years) in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, United States. She is the eldest of nine children of Lenora Marie Criscione (1923-2020) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, an advertising executive, television producer, and one-time nightclub singer. She has four brothers: Phillip Leslie Jr., Terry (an accomplished outdoorsman, journalist, and community leader), Timothy, and O’Brian; and four sisters: Meredith (or “Merry”), Bonnie Priscilla, Amanda and Melissa (or “Missy”). Her father was of English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. His English ancestors came from Hackney in London and his Welsh ancestors from Bridgend. On her mother’s side, she is of Italian descent, with ancestors from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily. Her father worked for WOR-TV in New York City.
When Susan Sarandon was four years old, the Tomalin family moved from New York City and purchased a house at 34 Williams Road in the newly-developed Stephenville community, located in the northern area of Edison Township, New Jersey (then named Raritan Township). The family was raised Roman Catholic and she and her sisters attended the all-girl Saint Francis Grammar School in nearby Borough of Metuchen, while her brothers attended the all-boy Saint Matthews Grammar School in the southern area of Edison Township. Her mother was a member and board director of the Stephenville Women’s Club and the Terra Tova Garden Club. The family was also a member of the Woodside Swim Club, a private swimming club and park in the Stephenville community, where Sarandon and her sisters won many swimming competitions. Sarandon graduated from Saint Francis Grammar School on June 12, 1960.
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Sarandon attended Edison High School, a public school located in the southern half of Edison Township. On April 11, 1962, while still in high school and performing under the name Sue Tomalin, she joined a band and dance group to entertain sick children at the Middlesex Rehabilitation and Polio Hospital in North Brunswick, New Jersey. While a junior at Edison High School, she performed the lead in the play Lady Precious Dream. While a senior at Edison High School, she played the title character lead in the comedy play My Sister Eileen in November 1963, earning mentions and her picture in the local newspapers. On March 24, 1964, Sarandon was inducted into the National Honor Society by Edison Township High School.
In May 1964, the Tomalin family sold their house on Williams Road in Stephenville and purchased a home at 5 Dorset Way in the newly-developed Chandler Hill community, just east of Stephenville in Edison. Sarandon graduated from Edison High School on June 15, 1964. She then attended the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. from 1964 to 1968, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama, and studying under drama coach and master teacher, Father Gilbert V. Hartke. During and shortly after college, she supported herself by cutting hair, cleaning houses and working as a switchboard operator.
Career
Susan Sarandon went to a casting call for the motion-picture Joe (1970) with her then-husband Chris Sarandon in 1969. Although he did not get a part, she was cast in a major role of a disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. Between 1970 and 1972, she appeared in the soap operas A World Apart and Search for Tomorrow, playing Patrice Kahlman and Sarah Fairbanks, respectively. She appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper (also 1975), opposite Robert Redford. She was twice directed by Louis Malle, in Pretty Baby (1978) and Atlantic City (1981). The latter earned Sarandon her first Academy Award nomination.
Sarandon’s most controversial film appearance was in Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983), a modern vampire story in which she had a lesbian sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. She appeared in the comedy-fantasy The Witches of Eastwick (1987) alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Michelle Pfeiffer. However, Sarandon did not become a “household name” until she appeared with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in the film Bull Durham (1988), a commercial and critical success. Roger Ebert praised Sarandon’s performance in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times: “I don’t know who else they could have hired to play Annie Savoy, the Sarandon character who pledges her heart and her body to one player a season, but I doubt if the character would have worked without Sarandon’s wonderful performance”.
She was nominated for an Academy Award four more times in the 1990s, as Best Actress in Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), and The Client (1994), finally winning in 1995 for Dead Man Walking in which she played Sister Helen Prejean who regularly visits a convicted murderer on death row. Janet Maslin, in The New York Times, wrote of her performance in the last film: “Ms. Sarandon takes the kind of risk she took playing a stubbornly obsessed mother in Lorenzo’s Oil. She’s commandingly blunt, and she avoids cheapening her performance with the wrong kind of compassion. Her Sister Helen is repelled and alarmed by this man, but she’s determined to help him anyway. That’s what makes the film so unrelenting.” Sarandon was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1994. Additionally, she has received eight Golden Globe nominations, including for White Palace (1990), Stepmom (1998), Igby Goes Down (2002), and Bernard and Doris (2007).
Her other movies include Little Women (1994), Anywhere but Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Elizabethtown (2005), and Enchanted (2007). Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as herself (“Bart Has Two Mommies”) and as a ballet teacher, “Homer vs. Patty and Selma”. She appeared on Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle’s Show, 30 Rock, Rescue Me, and Mike & Molly.
Susan Sarandon has contributed the narration to two dozen documentary films, many of which dealt with social and political issues. In addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, Independent Lens. In 1999 and 2000, she hosted and presented Mythos, a series of lectures by the late American mythology professor Joseph Campbell. Sarandon also participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films made for children between the ages of 3 and 18.
Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of The Lovely Bones, opposite Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter, Eva Amurri, in Middle of Nowhere; both films were made in 2007. In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, as Patty Atwood, a Broadway director/choreographer. However, the series was not picked up. In 2012, Sarandon’s audiobook performance of Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding was released at Audible.com. Sarandon was the voice actor for the character of Granny Rags, an eccentric and sinister old lady, in the stealth/action video game Dishonored, released in 2012. She appeared in the films Arbitrage (2012), Tammy (2014), and The Meddler (2015). In 2017, Sarandon portrayed Bette Davis in the first season of FX’s anthology series Feud. She also appeared in A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)—the sequel to the 2016 film Bad Moms—as the mother of Carla Dunkler. In 2018, she joined the “Social Impact Advisory Board ” of the San Diego International Film Festival.
Civil rights
Susan Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers interviewed in 1995 for the documentary The Celluloid Closet, which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality. However, Sarandon and Robbins appeared at the 2000 Shadow Convention in Los Angeles to speak about drug offenders being unduly punished. In 2004, she served on the advisory committee for 2004 Racism Watch, an activist group.
Sarandon has become an advocate to end the death penalty and mass incarceration. She has joined the team of people fighting to save the life of Richard Glossip, a man on death row in Oklahoma. In May 2015, Sarandon launched a campaign with fundraising platform Represent.com to sell T-shirts to help finance the documentary Deep Run, the story of a poor North Carolina teen undergoing a gender transition.
On March 12, 2011, Sarandon spoke before a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin protesting Governor Scott Walker and his Budget Repair Bill. On September 27, 2011, Sarandon spoke to reporters and interested parties at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. Her use of the word Nazi to describe Pope Benedict XVI on October 15, 2011, generated complaints from Roman Catholic authorities, and the Anti-Defamation League, which called on Sarandon to apologize. Sarandon brought activist Rosa Clemente to the 75th Golden Globe Awards and participated in a rally against gun violence in June 2018.
On June 28, 2018, Sarandon was arrested during the Women Disobey protests, along with 575 other people, for protesting at the Hart Senate Office Building where a sit-in was being held against Donald Trump’s migrant separation policy.
Political views and activism
Susan Sarandon is known for her active support of progressive and left-wing political causes, ranging from donations to organizations such as EMILY’s List to participating in a 1983 delegation to Nicaragua sponsored by MADRE, an organization that promotes “social, environmental, and economic justice”. In 1999, she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In that capacity, she has actively supported the organization’s global advocacy, as well as the work of the Canadian UNICEF Committee. In 2006, she was one of eight women selected to carry in the Olympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, in Turin, Italy. The same year, Sarandon received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award. Sarandon was appointed an FAO Goodwill Ambassador in 2010. She donated fruit trees to the New York City Housing Authority’s Jamaica Houses in 2018 in the borough of Queens. Sarandon visited the housing complex in person to help plant the trees.
Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against war as a pre-emptive strike. Prior to a 2003 protest sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, she said that many Americans “do not want to risk their children or the children of Iraq”. Sarandon was one of the first to appear in a series of political ads sponsored by TrueMajority, an organization established by Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream founder Ben Cohen. Along with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006 Mother’s Day protest, which was sponsored by Code Pink. In January 2007, she appeared with Robbins and Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. in support of a Congressional measure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.
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She supported Ralph Nader’s run for president during the 2000 election, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of Nader 2000. During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader’s bid, being among several “Nader Raiders” who urged Nader to drop out and his voters offer their support for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. After the 2004 election, Sarandon called for US elections to be monitored by international entities.
In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Sarandon and Tim Robbins campaigned for John Edwards in the New Hampshire communities of Hampton, Bedford, and Dover. When asked at We Vote ’08 Kickoff Party “What would Jesus do this primary season”, Sarandon said, “I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards.” She later endorsed Barack Obama. However, in the 2012 U.S. presidential election Sarandon, along with film director Michael Moore, said that they were not thrilled with Obama’s performance but hoped he would be re-elected. She said she and the administration haven’t been allies. “I wouldn’t say the White House has taken me under its wing and made me one of its best buddies,” Sarandon said.
In the 2016 United States presidential election, she made public her support for Senator Bernie Sanders. On March 28, 2016, in an interview on All In with Chris Hayes, Sarandon indicated that she and other Sanders supporters might not support Hillary Clinton if Clinton is the Democratic nominee for president. She stated: “You know, some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately. If he gets in, then things will really explode.” Hayes inquired as to whether it would be dangerous to allow Trump to become president, to which she replied: “If you think that it’s pragmatic to shore up the status quo right now, then you’re not in touch with the status quo”. On October 30, 2016, she endorsed Green Party of the United States presidential candidate Jill Stein.
In an interview with The Guardian published on November 26, 2017, Sarandon said about Hillary Clinton: “I did think she was very, very dangerous. We would still be fracking, we would be at war if she were president”.
Husband
Susan “Tomalin” Sarandon met fellow student Chris Sarandon, a Greek-American, while in college and the couple married on September 16, 1967. They divorced in 1979 but she retained the surname Sarandon as her stage name. She was then involved romantically with director Louis Malle, musician David Bowie and briefly, actor Sean Penn. In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter, Eva Amurri (born March 15, 1985), who is also an actress. However, beginning 1988, Sarandon lived with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while they were filming Bull Durham. They have two sons: John “Jack” Henry (born May 15, 1989) and Miles Robbins (born May 4, 1992). Sarandon, like Robbins, is a lapsed Catholic, and they both share liberal political views. Sarandon split with Robbins in 2009.
Following the end of her relationship with Tim Robbins, she soon began a new one with Jonathan Bricklin, son of Malcolm Bricklin. Sarandon and Bricklin helped establish a chain of ping-pong lounges named SPiN. Sarandon is the co-owner of this New York ping-pong club and its Toronto branch SPiN Toronto. Sarandon and Bricklin broke up in 2015. However, in 2006, Sarandon and ten relatives, including her son Miles Robbins, traveled to the United Kingdom to trace her family’s Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme, Coming Home: Susan Sarandon. Much of the same research and content was featured in the American version of Who Do You Think You Are? She also received the “Ragusani Nel Mondo” prize in 2006; her Sicilian roots are in Ragusa, Italy.
In 2021, Susan Sarandon appeared on the Divorced Not Dead podcast and was asked what she looks for in a man. She replied “I don’t care if it’s a man or a woman. I mean, I’m open to all age, all color. And those for me, those things are just details.”
Susan Sarandon net worth
How much is Susan Sarandon worth? Susan Sarandon net worth is estimated at around $60 million. Her main source of income is from her career as an actress. Sarandon successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and influential actresses in the United States. However, in February 2022, some law enforcement organizations criticized Sarandon for sharing a tweet that described a photo of police officers honoring a killed officer as fascism. She would later delete the tweet and post a message on Twitter to apologize. Also in 2022, Sarandon will star in the upcoming TV drama Monarch.