Susan Sarandon

Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their involvement in liberal political causes. Kim Stanley died of uterine cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri (born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry (born 1989) and Miles (born 1992) by Robbins. She received an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in the episode A Cardinal Act of Mercy on the TV series Ben Casey (1963) and an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for playing Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985). Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), and The Banger Sisters (2002). And she played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Other movies include Frances (1982), playing the mother of movie star Frances Farmer opposite Jessica Lange, in which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture.

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). In 1964, she starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham. Her first movie was The Goddess (1958), playing an unstable movie star, Rita Shawn. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. She had three children, one by Conway, one by Brooks Clift (brother of Montgomery Clift) while she was married to Conway, and one by Ryder. 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. Stanley had four husbands, Bruce Hall (married 1945-divorced 1946), Curt Conway (married 1949-divorced 1956), Alfred Ryder (married 1958-divorced 1964) and Joseph Siegel (married 1964-divorced 1967).

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. A savaging by English critics after her London performance of Masha in The Actor's Studio production of Chekhov's play The Three Sisters (1964) made her vow never to perform on stage again, a vow she kept for the rest of her life. 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. Stanley was also the leading lady of live television drama, which flourished in New York during the 1950s. Among her many starring roles was Wilma, a star-struck 15-year-old girl from the Gulf Coast of Texas in Horton Foote's A Young Lady of Property, which aired on the Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse April 5, 1953. Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance of Anna Reeves in The Chase; and was nominated for the 1959 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for A Touch of the Poet and the 1962 Tony for Best Actress in a Play for A Far Country. 1982 Nominated Atlantic City. She starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic (1953), playing Millie Owens, and Bus Stop (1955), playing Cherie.

1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise. She eventually attended The Actor's Studio, studying under Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. 1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil. She was singled out by the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. 1995 Nominated The Client. Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few motion picture roles. 1996 Won Dead Man Walking. She was a drama major at the University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.

She was born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico. Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress.