Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

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The extremely versatile Susan Sarandon brings her own brand of sex appeal and intelligence to every role – from her fearless portrayal in “Bull Durham” to her Oscar®-nominated performances in “Thelma and Louise,” “Lorenzo’s Oil,” “The Client,” and “Atlantic City” to her Academy Award®-winning and SAG® Award-winning role in “Dead Man Walking” as Sister Helen, a nun consoling a death-row inmate.

Film credits include “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps,” “Lovely Bones Enchanted,” “Speed Racer,” “Elizabethtown,” “Shall We Dance?,” “The Banger Sisters,” “Mr. Woodcock,” “In the Valley of Elah,” “Alfie,” “Moonight Mile,” “Igby Goes Down,” “Romance and Cigarettes,” “Twilight,” “Step Mom,” “The Hunger,” “Jeff Who Lives at Home,” “That’s My Boy,” “Cloud Atlas,” “Robot & Frank,” “Arbitrage,” “Snitch,” “The Company You Keep,” “Tammy,” “The Last of Robin Hood” and “The Calling.”

Sarandon made her acting debut in the movie “Joe,” which she followed with a continuing role in the TV drama “A World Apart.” Early film credits include “The Great Waldo Pepper,” “Lovin’ Molly,” Billy Wilder’s “The Front Page,” the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and Louis Malle’s controversial “Pretty Baby.” She went on to receive her first Oscar® nomination in Malle’s “Atlantic City.”

Her additional feature credits include “The Witches of Eastwick,” “Cradle Will Rock,” “King of the Gypsies,” “Compromising Positions,” “The January Man,” “White Palace,” “The Buddy System,” “Sweet Hearts Dance,” “A Dry White Season,” “Bob Roberts,” “Light Sleeper,” “Little Women,” and “Safe Passage.”

The hard-working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television. In 2008, she received an Emmy® Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries for her role in the HBO film “Bernard and Doris,” as well as a Golden Globe® and SAG® nomination. She received an Emmy and SAG nomination for her work in Barry Levinson’s “You Don’t Know Jack” with Al Pacino for HBO.

She starred in the 2003 CBS Movie “Ice Bound”; in the Sy-Fy Channel Mini Series “Children of Dune”; in the TV Movie “The Exonerated”; in HBO’s “Earthly Possessions”; in the CBS Movie “Women of Valor”; and the HBO Miniseries “Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce.” She has made guest appearances on “30 Rock,” “The Big C” and in the “Mother Lover” video on “Saturday Night Live.”

Upcoming films include “Three Generations” with Naomi Watts and Elle Fanning, the Lifetime miniseries, “The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe” and “The Meddler” with J.K. Simmons and Rose Byrne.