Susan Sarandon

Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their involvement in liberal political causes. She is of no relation to actress Jean Stapleton. Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri (born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry (born 1989) and Miles (born 1992) by Robbins. Her more recent appearances include Cocoon and Cocoon: The Return (1985 and 1988). Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), and The Banger Sisters (2002). She was nominated again for Airport and Interiors (1978), and won for Reds (1981). Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Her film career also brought her immediate success, with her debut in Lonelyhearts (1958) earning her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

It was while filming that movie that she met actor Tim Robbins, with whom she established a relationship that continues to this day (as of 2004). She won a second Tony Award for Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady in 1971. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham. She played in other Williams' productions Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Orpheus Descending, as well as Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. Stepping in as a replacement for Anna Magnani, Stapleton won a Tony Award for her role in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in 1951. She did not follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin' Molly; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic. She has said that it was her infatuation with the actor Joel McCrea that led her into acting, and she made her Broadway debut in Burgess Meredith's production of The Playboy of the Western World in 1946.

In 1970 she went to a cattle call for the film Joe with Chris and, although he did not get a part, Susan received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. Stapleton began acting in theater after finishing high school, and rapidly gained respect as both a dramatic and comedic actress. Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York, New York, she attended The Catholic University of America in 1964, where she met and married fellow student Chris Sarandon, whom she would divorce fifteen years later while still retaining her married name as her stage name. Lois Maureen Stapleton (born June 21, 1925 in Troy, New York) in an American theater and film actress. Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress. 1982 Nominated Atlantic City.

1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise. 1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil. 1995 Nominated The Client. 1996 Won Dead Man Walking.