Born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to Welsh-American Phillip Leslie Tomalin and Italian-American Lenora Marie Criscione. 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.

After the 1968 Democratic National Convention, 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 (the film was released in 1970). 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, a cult classic. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford.

She was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a "household name" until the 1988 film Bull Durham. 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 2005).

Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking.

Her recent movies include Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005) and Elizabethtown (2005)

Sarandon also made an appearance in the delayed final season of Chappelle's Show.

In 2006, Sarandon participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony by carrying the Olympic flag in Torino.

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