Susan Sarandon

Sarandon and Robbins are also noted for their involvement in liberal political causes. She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album. Sarandon has three children: actress Eva Amurri (born 1985) by Franco Amurri; and John Henry (born 1989) and Miles (born 1992) by Robbins. She eventually won the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter. Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), and The Banger Sisters (2002). Her breakout role was in Carrie, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's lib.

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). The first role that brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. 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 credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in which she played a young woman sold into white slavery. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. Her cousin, Rip Torn, was already in the entertainment business, and through him, she was able to enroll in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. 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. Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer.

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. Death Game (art director). 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. Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser). Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award winning American actress. Trash. 1982 Nominated Atlantic City. Prime Cut.

1992 Nominated Thelma and Louise. The Girls of Huntington House. 1993 Nominated Lorenzo's Oil. Ginger in the Morning. 1995 Nominated The Client. Badlands. 1996 Won Dead Man Walking. The Migrants.

Katherine. Carrie. 3 Women. Welcome to L.A..

Verna, USO Girl. Coal Miner's Daughter. Heart Beat. Raggedy Man.

Missing. The Man with Two Brains. The River. Marie.

Violets Are Blue. 'night, Mother. Crimes of the Heart. The Long Walk Home.

Hard Promises. JFK. A Private Matter. A Place for Annie.

Trading Mom. The Good Old Boys. The Grass Harp. Streets of Laredo.

Beyond the Call. If These Walls Could Talk. Affliction. Blast from the Past.

The Rage, Carrie 2. The Straight Story. Songs in Ordinary Time. In the Bedroom.

Midwives. Last Call. Tuck Everlasting. 1977 Nominated Carrie.

1981 Won Coal Miner's Daughter. 1983 Nominated Missing. 1985 Nominated The River. 1987 Nominated Crimes of the Heart.

2002 Nominated In the Bedroom.