Susan Sarandon

Biography
Grew up in Edison, New Jersey, the eldest of nine children (5 girls and 4 boys) in an Italian-Welsh family. Her father, Philip Tomaling, was a singer and advertising executive and her mother, Lenora Criscione, a housewife. Her education was religious and conservative. He attended a Catholic school run by nuns. In high school, she rebellious nature was when she was arrested for his activism against the Vietnam War and protests for Civil Rights. This gave birth to a vital passion for political causes. He returned to be arrested in March 1999 during protests against the police firing in New York against an unarmed Guinean immigrant. After high school, Susan attended the Catholic University in Washington DC. She went on several courses, including drama, English, philosophy and military strategy. She paid her studies by working as a secretary in the department of drama, cleaning apartments and a model for the Watergate Hotel brochure. Although she aspired to become an actress, she attended a show where the graduate student in drama Sarandon Christopher noticed her. They began dating, they went to live together and in September 1968 they got married. After graduating in 1968, Susan worked as a model and her husband as a stage actor. His life took a dramatic turn when she accompanied Chris to audition in New York. The agent hired two and moved to New York. Until 1978 her work on the film did not get very good reviews. That year she met the French director Louis Malle, with whom she began dating, and divorced her husband in 1979. After her break with Malle, she left for a time with Sean Penn, later, with the Italian director Franco Amurri, with whom she had her first child, Eva.

Actress

 * 2009 - The Lovely Bones (Grandma Lynn)
 * 2007 - Enchanted (Queen Narissa)
 * 1996 - James and the Giant Peach (Miss Spider)
 * 1987 - The Witches of Eastwick (Jane Spofford)
 * 1983 - The Hunger (Sarah Robbins)
 * 1975 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Janet Weiss)

Saturn Award

 * Nominated
 * 2010 - Best Supporting Actress for The Lovely Bones
 * 1988 - Best Actress for The Witches of Eastwick