• Name: Susan Sarandon
  
• Birth Name: Susan Abigail Tomalin
  
• Height: 5' 7 1/2"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: October 4, 1946
  
• Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (B.A., Drama and English, 1968)
  
• Husband/Wife: Chris Sarandon (actor; born on July 24, 1942; married on September 16, 1967; divorced in 1979)
  
• Relationship: Tim Robbins (actor; born on October 16, 1958; together since 1988), Franco Amurri (director; born on September 12, 1958; dated in the 1980s), Sean Penn (actor; born on August 17, 1960; dated in 1984), Louis Malle (director; together in the late '70s)
  
• Father: Phillip Leslie Tomalin (TV and advertising executive)
  
• Mother: Lenora Marie Tomalin
  
• Brother: Terry Tomalin (sportswriter)
  
• Son: Miles Robbins (born on May 5, 1992; father: Tim Robbins), John Henry Robbins (born in May 1989; father: Tim Robbins)
  
• Daughter: Eva Maria Livia Amurri (born on March 15, 1985; father: Franco Amurri)
  
• Claim to fame: as Louise Sawyer in Thelma & Louise (1991)
  

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• On U.S. Sen. John Kerry, and other hawkish Democratic presidential hopefuls: "I certainly wouldn't be looking to anybody who thought they were against the war and then voted for it. I want someone with some courage to vote for their issues. We're tired of people voting to protect their careers."
• "I am so honored and thrilled. Being from New York it's great to have ... a little bit of real estate in L.A. when I am here." (about her Hollywood Walk of Fame star)"
• "I choose projects I can talk about for days because now you do publicity for as long as it took you to shoot the movie."
• "I feel I've always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost."
• "I haven't yet had any plastic surgery, but I won't knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It's hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that's huge. You can see every single line. But I think it's an aesthetic choice for the individual. I don't like it when surgeons take a perfectly interesting looking woman and she ends up looking like a female impersonator with these gigantic breasts. It's just so extreme and that worries me. I think everyone is looking the same."
• "I think the only reason I remain an actor is that you can never quite get it right. So there is a challenge to it."
• "If I were 22 and trying to build a career, I don't know who'd be watching the kids as happily as I do. It takes so much to get me to break out of domestic paradise. There's hardly anything that interests me as much as my family."
• "I'm certainly not an expert, but Tim and I just celebrated 17 years together, which in Hollywood years I think is 45. I think the key is just focusing on this one person and not keeping one eye on the door to see who might be better."
• "It's always so painful to watch yourself. That never changes. I still sit there and think, 'Oh, that scene is missing? Wasn't I good? What happened there?'"
• "My children were embarrassed at my Lincoln Center Tribute. I forgot they would show film clips and my children hadn't seen anything. Every time something a little racy would come on like 'The Hunger,' I'd look at my 13-year-old, who was shielding his eyes."
• "People will like you for the wrong reasons your entire life, even if you don't have parents who are celebrities. They will like you because you have a car or you have money or your breasts are big."
• "Sexuality ... is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get... If you can continue to say yes to life and to maintain a certain generosity of spirit, you become more and more of who you are."
• "The largest party in the United States is the 50 percent who don't vote."
• "The thing that's bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It'd be nice if you could have both. Anyway, I think my breasts have been highly overrated."
• "You're so lucky in Ireland, England and Spain. Everyone there already knows what it's like to have inexplicable terrorist violence."
• On Thelma & Louise after her nomination for best actress, 1992: "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the option of violence was hard for a lot of people to accept."

• Film Society of Lincoln Center: Gala Tribute (2003)
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Sierra Award - Best Supporting Actress, IGBY GOES DOWN (2003)
• Nashville Independent Film Festival: Freedom in Film Award (2002)
• Taos Talking Picture Festival: Maverick Award (2002)
• Kids' Choice Awards: Blimp Award - Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie, RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE - RUGRATS II (2001)
• San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Best Actress, STEPMOM (1998)
• ShoWest Convention: Humanitarian Award (1998)
• Munich Film Festival: CineMerit Award (1997)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, DEAD MAN WALKING (1996)
• David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Actress, DEAD MAN WALKING (1996)
• Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Woman of the Year (1996)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, DEAD MAN WALKING (1996)
• BAFTA Awards: Best Actress Leading, THE CLIENT (1995)
• San Sebastián International Film Festival: Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award (1995)
• Women in Film Crystal Awards: Crystal Award (1994)
• David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Actress, THELMA & LOUISE (1992) - shared with Geena Davis
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Actress - Drama, DEAD MAN WALKING (1992)
• Boston Film Festival: Film Excellence Award (1992)
• Gotham Awards: Actor Award (1992)
• London Critics Circle Film Awards: Actress of the Year, THELMA & LOUISE (1992)
• National Board of Review: Best Actress, THELMA & LOUISE (1991)
• CableACE Awards: Actress in a Dramatic Series, OXBRIDGE BLUES (1987)
• Venice Film Festival: Pasinetti Award - Best Actress, TEMPEST (1982)
• Genie Awards: Best Performance by a Foreign Actress, ATLANTIC CITY (1981)

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