Biography:

Susan Sarandon has defied typecasting, both in her Hollywood career, and her private life. The former Ford model shows tremendous range in accepting her acting roles. 

After debuting as the daughter in "Joe" (1970), and following with with "Lovin' Molly", and Billy Wilder's "The Front Page", and the female lead opposite Robert Redford in George Roy Hill's "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975), she gained attention  in the hit "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), as one half of the "straight" couple who find themselves deserted among Transylvanian sexual weirdoes. 

Her next two roles were more controversial, as the prostitute mother of a twelve-year-old prostitute played by Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby" (1978), and the lesbian lover of vampire Catherine Deneuve in Tony Scott's "The Hunger" (1983). She then earned her first Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in "Atlantic City" (1980).

She made her first television appearance in the daytime drama "A World Apart" (1970-71), then appeared in movies and miniseries including "June Moon" (1974), "Who Am I This Time?" (1982), the Roman miniseries "A.D." (1985) and "Women of Valor" (1986). She has lent her voice talents to many documentaries, narrating "Your Water, Your Life" (1988), "Postpartum: Beyond the Blues" (1989), "Living in America" (1991,  "From Fury to Forgiveness" (1994), "One Woman, One Vote" (1995) and "Secrets of the Humpback Whale" (1998). 

She also starred as a woman taken hostage in a bank robbery in the 1999 cable movie "Earthly Possessions", based on the book by Anne Tyler. She also received an Emmy nomination for her 2001 guest appearance as a soap opera star in an episode of  "Friends".

She followed with a role in "The Witches of Eastwick" starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfieffer (1987), and then then appeared in "Bull Durham" with Kevin Costner, the 1988 comedy which introduced her to Tim Robbins - her future husband in real life. Next up was a string of hits like "Sweet Hearts Dance" (1988), "The January Man" and "A Dry White Season"(1989) and "White Palace" (1990). She won her second Oscar nomination for Ridley Scott's "Thelma & Louise" starring Brad Pitt (1991), pulling in a whole new era of young fans as the level headed Louise opposite Geena Davis' erratic character Thelma.

She struck gold in "Lorenzo's Oil" (all 1992), where her role as a mother whose devotion to her sick son turns her into an uncaring, self-righteous mother won her another Academy Award nomination. Joel Schumacher next cast her in "The Client" (1994), a legal thriller adapted from the John Grisham bestseller. Though she fought with Tommy Lee Jones, her true leading man was the talented young actor Brad Renfro. For her work, she grabbed a fourth Oscar nomination as Best Actress. She then was hired and cast as the mother in "Safe Passage" (1994), with Nick Stahl, and "Little Women" (1994) featuring a young Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, and Christian Bale.

She then took the part of activist Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking", where she wore no makeup as the nun who acts as spiritual counselor to death row killer Sean Penn. The Best Actress award was hers that year. 

After lending her voice to a spider in the animated comedy "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), she graced Robert Benton's "Twilight" (1998). She then took a back seat, allowing Julia Roberts to shine in Chris Columbus' "Stepmom" (1998). She then starred in Wayne Wang's "Anywhere But Here" starring Natalie Portman (1999), as a mother dealing with a new love and an unruly teen girl, before working again with Robbins in "The Cradle Will Rock" (1999) featuring Jack Black and Bill Murray.

She then provided her voice for two more animated projects, "Rugrats in Paris - The Movie" (2000), and "Cats & Dogs" starring Jeff Goldblum (2001). Working next to Goldie Hawn, she played a former groupie in "The Banger Sisters" (2002). She then was hired and cast as the title character's dying mother in "Igby Goes Down" starring Kieran Culkin and Claire Danes (2002), and wrapped the year starring alongside Dustin Hoffman as a married couple who take in their deceased daughter's fiancé in "Moonlight Mile". 

Next was the role of Richard Gere's wife in "Shall We Dance?" with Jennifer Lopez (2004), where she grows anxious that her husband's new obsession with dance classes point to something more serious for their failing marriage. That year she also appeared as one of Jude Law's romantic lovers in "Alfie," playing Liz, a businesswoman with a fresh approach to sex and being naked. More television work followed with "The Exonerated" (2005), the story of six wrongly convicted people whose death row sentence was ultimately overturned by the hard work of dedicated lawyers. 

The actress then worked with Cameron Crowe to play Orlando Bloom's mother, whose sadness over the sudden loss of her husband is seen by her endless string of new, distracting hobbies, in the romantic comedy "Elizabethtown" featuring Kirsten Dunst and Jessica Biel (2005). "Elizabethtown" gave her one of the most memorable scenes of her career as her character gives an unusual eulogy at her husband's memorial. She next starred as an evil queen attempting to keep a princess from finding her true love in Manhattan in Disney's animated tale, "Enchanted" working with Patrick Dempsey.

In 2008, she starred in the John Stockwell comedy-drama "Middle Of Nowhere" (2008), about an irresponsible mother who blows her eldest daughter's college fund on her youngest daughter's modeling campaign. Then she worked alongside John Goodman in the thriller-adventure "Speed Racer" (2008), about a man named Speed Racer, who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. 

In 2009 she starred in the Peter Jackson horror-drama "The Lovely Bones" starring Mark Wahlberg, about a young girl who was brutally raped and murdered, and watches the effects of her death on her family from Heaven, as her parents drift apart, her father becomes obsessed with vengeance and her sister grows into the woman she would never be. Also in 2009 was "The Colossus" with Colin Firth, about an ornithologist at the turn of the 20th century who transports hundreds of songbirds to an ailing prime minister in South Africa and falls for a political activist trying to stop the impending Boer War.