Susan Sarandon
Summary
Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She was nominated for the award for four films before that, and has received other recognition for her work. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.Sarandon, the eldest of nine children in a Roman Catholic family, was born as Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City, the daughter of Leonora Marie (ne Criscione) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and nightclub singer during the big band era.
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Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News
Documentary film-maker has 'gut feeling' investigations will reveal phone hacking at Murdoch subsidiary Fox News.
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Trailer Mash 03-16-12
It's back to school with Adrien Brody, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in this week's unlikely mashup of Detachment and that 21 Jump Street remake everyone's been dreaming of for years. Below, 10 of this week's new releases are judged purely on their trailers. (Mashup by Kate Rose.
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Susan Sarandon Talks Her Kids' Reaction To Her On-Screen Nudity
"Late Late Show" (Weeknights, 12:37 a. m. EST on CBS) host Craig Ferguson was so mock-irritated by the way his guest Susan Sarandon was fiddling with her dress he told her to "just take the thing off!".
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Trailer Mash 10-21-11
Hello, Trailer Trash. We're changing gears again. Instead of mashing the top half-dozen new releases into a single trailer, we're now going to see if we can find two films that beg to be united in promotional matrimony. To get the ball rolling, in the video above, we've coupled the hi-jinks capers of The Three Musketeers with the high-finance capers of Occupy Wall Street prequel Margin Call.
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Occupy Wall Street, Media Have Complicated Relationship
NEW YORK — The Wall Street protest against economic inequality has a chaotic and complicated relationship with media that has helped spread its message across the world from a small Manhattan park.
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Mark Ruffalo on lack of stars at Occupy Wall Street: ‘Who needs the headache of being attacked by Fox News?’ (The Cutline)
The Cutline - "Who needs the headache of being attacked by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh?" -- Mark Ruffalo, actor, director, occasional newspaper editor and Occupy Wall Street visitor, on his respect for fellow actors who are hesitant to join the protesters in lower Manhattan. Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Kanye West are among the stars who [.
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Emmy awards 2011: live blog
Follow the Guardian's live coverage of the Emmy awards 2011 with Matt Wells, Sarah Hughes and Hadley Freeman. • All updates by Matt except where indicated by initials • All times ET.
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Pitchfork: the movie ... coming soon!
Indie music website inspires story about a mother seeking revenge on a blogger who gave her son's band a bad review.
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Filming Set to Begin, but Gere/Sarandon Thriller Lands in Court (Exclusive)
Arbitrage, a Wall Street thriller starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, is experiencing a financial meltdown just two weeks before it’s set to start filming.
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Hollywood Feels Ripples From Libya
Hollywood players and institutions were said to be scrambling to distance themselves from projects in which Saadi Qaddafi might be financially involved.
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