Susan Sarandon biography
Susan Sarandon is an American actress and activist, born on 4 October 1946 in New York City.
Susan Sarandon's screen career began in 1970 with Joe, playing Melissa Compton.
Susan Sarandon has appeared in 159 films and 45 television or streaming titles.
The most recent films are The Echo Chamber (2026), The Accompanist (2026), Nonnas (2025).
Honours include Donostia Award, Academy Award for Best Actress and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Coming up next: Army of Shadows.
- Also known as
- Susan Tomalin
- Born
- 4 October 1946 (age 80)
- Birthplace
- New York City
- Work
- Film actor, Voice actor, Film producer, Actor, Television actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1970 to present
- Awards
- Donostia Award
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- New Jersey Hall of Fame
- Crystal Award
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Susan Sarandon filmography
159 films and 46 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Echo Chamber | Ava | ||
| 2026 | The Accompanist | Sylvia | ||
| 2025 | Nonnas | Gia | ||
| 2025 | Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror | English | ||
| 2024 | The Six Triple Eight | Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
| 2024 | The Fabulous Four | Lou | ||
| 2024 | The Gutter | Linda Curson | ||
| 2024 | Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue | Shades | Voice | |
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | Victoria Kord | ||
| 2023 | Maybe I Do | Monica | ||
| 2022 | Forty Winks | Connie Montoya | ||
| 2021 | Ride the Eagle | Honey | ||
| 2021 | Jolt | Woman With No Name | ||
| 2021 | Marvel's Wastelanders | Natasha Romanova/Black Widow/"Helen Black" | ||
| 2020 | Fearless | Mom | ||
| 2019 | The Jesus Rolls | Jean | ||
| 2019 | Blackbird | Lily | ||
| 2019 | VHYes | Tracy Beth | Also executive producer | |
| 2018 | Viper Club | Helen | ||
| 2018 | The Death and Life of John F. Donovan | English | ||
| 2018 | The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | Grace Donovan | ||
| 2018 | Survivors Guide to Prison | Narrator; also producer | ||
| 2018 | Death Row Stories | Narrator; also producer | ||
| 2017 | A Bad Moms Christmas | Isis Dunkler | ||
| 2017 | Soufra | Executive producer only |
Show all 159 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | Executive producer only | ||
| 2016 | My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea | Lunch Lady Lorraine | Voice | |
| 2016 | Mothers and Daughters | Millie | ||
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | English | ||
| 2016 | Spark | Bananny | Voice | |
| 2016 | April and the Extraordinary World | Chimene | Voice | |
| 2016 | Ace the Case | Detective Dottie Wheel | ||
| 2015 | 3 Generations | Dolly | ||
| 2015 | The Meddler | Marnie Minervini | Also executive producer | |
| 2015 | Hell and Back | Barb The Angel | Voice | |
| 2014 | The Calling | Hazel Micallef | ||
| 2014 | Tammy | Pearl Balzen | ||
| 2014 | Ping Pong Summer | Randy Jammer | ||
| 2014 | Unity | Narrator | ||
| 2013 | Snitch | District Attorney Joanne Keeghan | ||
| 2013 | The Last of Robin Hood | Florence Aadland | ||
| 2013 | The Big Wedding | Bebe McBride | ||
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Madame Horrox, Older Ursula, Yosouf Suleiman, Abbess | ||
| 2012 | That's My Boy | Mary McGarricle | ||
| 2012 | Arbitrage | Ellen Miller | ||
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Sharon Solarz | ||
| 2012 | Robot & Frank | Jennifer | ||
| 2012 | Jeff, Who Lives at Home | Sharon Thompkins | ||
| 2012 | Dishonored | Granny Rags | ||
| 2011 | Fight for Your Right Revisited | English | ||
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Sylvia Moore | ||
| 2010 | Peacock | Fanny Crill | ||
| 2009 | The Lovely Bones | Grandma Lynn | ||
| 2009 | A War in Hollywood | Spanish | ||
| 2009 | The Greatest | Grace Brewer | ||
| 2009 | Solitary Man | Nancy Kalmen | ||
| 2009 | Shorts | English | ||
| 2009 | Leaves of Grass | Daisy Kincaid | ||
| 2008 | Middle of Nowhere | Rhonda Berry | ||
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Mom Racer | ||
| 2007 | Mr. Woodcock | Beverly Farley | ||
| 2007 | Manufacturing Dissent | English | ||
| 2007 | In the Valley of Elah | Joan Deerfield | ||
| 2007 | Enchanted | Queen Narissa | ||
| 2007 | Emotional Arithmetic | Melanie Lansing Winters | ||
| 2007 | This Child of Mine | Narrator | ||
| 2006 | Irresistible | Sophie Hartley | ||
| 2006 | Secrets of the Code | Narrator | ||
| 2006 | Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars | Narrator | ||
| 2005 | Romance & Cigarettes | Kitty Kane Murder | ||
| 2005 | Elizabethtown | Hollie Baylor | ||
| 2005 | A Whale in Montana | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | Shall We Dance | Beverly Clark | ||
| 2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | English | ||
| 2004 | Noel | Rose Collins | ||
| 2004 | Alfie | Liz | ||
| 2004 | Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields | Narrator | ||
| 2003 | The Nazi Officer's Wife | Narrator | ||
| 2003 | Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen | Narrator | ||
| 2003 | Burma: Anatomy of Terror | Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down | Mimi Slocumb | ||
| 2002 | The Banger Sisters | Lavinia Kingsley | ||
| 2002 | Moonlight Mile | Jojo Floss | Also executive producer | |
| 2002 | The Next Industrial Revolution | Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Little Miss Spider | Narrator | Voice, short film | |
| 2001 | Cats & Dogs | Ivy | Voice | |
| 2001 | The Party's Over | English | ||
| 2001 | The Concert for New York City | |||
| 2001 | Uphill All the Way | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | The Shaman's Apprentice | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | Rudyland | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | Islamabad: Rock City | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | Goodnight Moon | Narrator | Voice, short film | |
| 2001 | Ghosts of Attica | Narrator | ||
| 2001 | 900 Women | Narrator | ||
| 2000 | Sven Nykvist: Light Keeps Me Company | Swedish | ||
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Alice Neel | ||
| 2000 | This Is What Democracy Looks Like | Narrator | ||
| 2000 | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Coco LaBouche | Voice | |
| 2000 | Mythos | Narrator | ||
| 2000 | Iditarod: A Far Distant Place | Narrator | ||
| 2000 | Dying to be Thin | Narrator | ||
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Margherita Sarfatti | ||
| 1999 | Anywhere but Here | Adele August | ||
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Mrs. Clark | Voice, direct-to-video | |
| 1999 | For Love of Julian | Narrator | ||
| 1998 | Stepmom | Jackie Harrison | Also executive producer | |
| 1998 | Twilight | Catherine Ames | ||
| 1998 | Illuminata | Calimene | ||
| 1997 | The Need to Know | Narrator | ||
| 1997 | Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins | Narrator | ||
| 1997 | 187: Documented | Narrator | ||
| 1996 | Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press | Narrator | ||
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Miss Spider | Voice | |
| 1995 | The Celluloid Closet | English | ||
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean | Won Academy Award | |
| 1995 | One Woman One Vote | Narrator | ||
| 1994 | Little Women | Mrs. March | ||
| 1994 | The Client | Regina "Reggie" Love | ||
| 1994 | Safe Passage | Margaret "Mag" Singer | ||
| 1994 | School of the Americas Assassins | Narrator | ||
| 1993 | Lost Kingdoms of The Maya | |||
| 1993 | Wilderness: The Last Stand | Narrator | ||
| 1992 | Bob Roberts | Tawna Titan | ||
| 1992 | The Player | English | ||
| 1992 | Lorenzo's Oil | Michaela Odone | ||
| 1992 | Light Sleeper | Ann | ||
| 1991 | Thelma & Louise | Louise Sawyer | ||
| 1990 | White Palace | Nora Baker | ||
| 1990 | Through the Wire | Narrator | ||
| 1989 | The January Man | Christine Starkey | ||
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | Melanie Bruwer | ||
| 1988 | Sweet Hearts Dance | Sandra Boon | ||
| 1988 | Bull Durham | Annie Savoy | ||
| 1987 | The Witches of Eastwick | Jane Spofford | ||
| 1985 | Compromising Positions | Judith Singer | ||
| 1984 | The Buddy System | Emily Price | ||
| 1983 | The Hunger | Sarah Roberts | ||
| 1982 | Tempest | Aretha Tomalin | ||
| 1982 | Who Am I This Time? | English | ||
| 1980 | Fame | English | ||
| 1980 | Loving Couples | Stephanie Beck | ||
| 1980 | Atlantic City | Sally Matthews | ||
| 1979 | Something Short of Paradise | Madeline Ross | ||
| 1978 | King of the Gypsies | Rose | ||
| 1978 | Pretty Baby | Hattie | ||
| 1977 | The Other Side of Midnight | Catherine Alexander Douglas | ||
| 1977 | The Great Smokey Roadblock | Ginny | Also co-producer | |
| 1977 | Checkered Flag or Crash | C.C. Wainwright | ||
| 1976 | One Summer Love | Chloe Farna | ||
| 1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Janet Weiss | ||
| 1975 | The Great Waldo Pepper | Mary Beth | ||
| 1974 | The Front Page | Peggy Grant | ||
| 1974 | Lovin' Molly | Sarah | ||
| 1971 | Lady Liberty | Sally | ||
| 1971 | Fleur bleue | English | ||
| 1971 | The Apprentice | Elizabeth Hawkins | ||
| 1970 | Joe | Melissa Compton |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army of Shadows | Upcoming | |||
| 2023 | Krapopolis | Demeter | Voice, episode: "Please Demeter" | |
| 2023 | CAUGHT | Alaska Adams | 6 episodes | |
| 2022 | Monarch | Dottie Cantrell Roman | Main role | |
| 2021 | Search Party | Lylah | 2 episodes | |
| 2019 | Robot Chicken | Louise, Chloe, Gen Z Advertising Executive, Handmaid | Voice, episode: "Ginger Hill in: Bursting Pipes" | |
| 2019 | At Home with Amy Sedaris | Susan Sarandon | Episode: "Anniversary" | |
| 2017 | Rick and Morty | Dr. Wong | Voice, 4 episodes | |
| 2017 | Ray Donovan | Samantha Winslow | 16 episodes | |
| 2017 | Neo Yokio | Aunt Agatha | Voice, 7 episodes | |
| 2017 | Feud: Bette and Joan | Bette Davis | 8 episodes; also co-producer | |
| 2016 | Skylanders Academy | Golden Queen | Voice, 6 episodes | |
| 2016 | Cassius and Clay | Voice, pilot | ||
| 2016 | American Dad! | Mrs. Jasperterian | Voice, episode: "Portrait of Francine's Genitals" | |
| 2015 | The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe | Gladys | 2 episodes | |
| 2015 | Moonbeam City | Ice Ivory | Voice, episode: "The Legend of Circuit Lake" | |
| 2013 | Mike & Molly | J.C. Small | 2 episodes | |
| 2012 | The Big C | Joy The Joyologist | 6 episodes | |
| 2011 | 30 Rock | Lynn Onkman | 2 episodes | |
| 2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Janet Good | Television film | |
| 2009 | Saturday Night Live | Mother | Uncredited 2 episodes | |
| 2009 | ER | Nora | Episode: "Old Times" | |
| 2007 | Bernard and Doris | Doris Duke | Television film | |
| 2006 | Rescue Me | Alicia Green | 6 episodes | |
| 2005 | The Exonerated | Sunny Jacobs | Television film |
Show all 46 titles
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Frank Herbert's Children of Dune | Princess Wensicia | 3 episodes | |
| 2003 | Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole | Dr. Jerri Nielsen | Television film | |
| 2002 | Malcolm in the Middle | Meg | 2 episodes | |
| 2001 | Friends | Cecilia Monroe | Episode: "The One With Joey's New Brain" | |
| 1999 | Earthly Possessions | Charlotte Emory | Television film | |
| 1995 | The Simpsons | Ballet Teacher | Voice, episode: "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" | |
| 1994 | All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Bitsy | Television special | |
| 1986 | Women of Valor | Colonel Margaret Ann Jessup | Television film | |
| 1985 | Mussolini and I | Edda Mussolini Ciano | Television film | |
| 1985 | A.D | Livilla | 5 episodes | |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Natalie | Episode: "He'll See You Now" | |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Beauty | Episode: "Beauty And The Beast" | |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Helene Shaw | Episode: "Who Am I This Time?" | |
| 1975 | The Haunting of Rosalind | Television film | ||
| 1974 | F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' | Ailie Calhoun | Television film | |
| 1974 | The Satan Murders | Kate | Television film | |
| 1974 | The Rimers of Eldritch | Pasty Johnson | Television film | |
| 1974 | June Moon | Eileen | Television film | |
| 1972 | Search for Tomorrow | Sarah Fairbanks | 1 episode | |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Joyce | Episode: "Burden of Proof" | |
| 1971 | A World Apart | Patrice Kahlman | 1 episode |