Susan Sarandon Filmography

Born:: October 4, 1946 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Susan Tomaling
Biography:: Simply by growing old gracefully, actress Susan Sarandon has defied the rules of Hollywood stardom: Not only has her fame continued to increase as she enters middle age, but the quality of her films and her performances in them has improved as well. Ultimately, she has come to embody an...Read More

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Speed Racer

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, John Goodman

Synopsis: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Read More

5/9/08
The Colossus

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Susan Sarandon, Colin Firth

1/1/08
Middle of Nowhere

Actors: Susan Sarandon

2008
Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya's Death

Actors: Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian reporter who regularly wrote for Novaya Gazyeta, one of the country's few independent journals. In a nation where political corruption is widespread and exposing the misdeeds of the nation's leaders often has dangerous consequences, Politkovskaya was a fearless Read More

2008
Enchanted

Actors: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: Classic Disney animation meets contemporary urban chaos when a frightened princess is banished from her magical animated homeland to modern-day New York City in a romantic comedy penned by Bill Kelly (Blast from the Past), directed by Kevin Lima (Tarzan), and featuring music by composer Alan Menken Read More

11/21/07
Mr. Woodcock

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon, Amy Poehler, Ethan Suplee, Melissa Sagemiller

Synopsis: Every junior-high geek's worst nightmare becomes a reality in this comedy. John Farley (Seann William Scott) grew up as a chubby kid with no athletic skills and poor self-esteem, and during his early teenage years his nemesis was Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton), his junior-high gym teacher, who Read More

9/21/07
In the Valley of Elah

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, James Franco

Synopsis: When a model soldier who recently returned to the U.S. from the front lines of Iraq goes AWOL, his veteran father enlists the aid of a dedicated police detective in seeking out his son's true fate of his son in director/screenwriter Paul Haggis's follow up to the Oscar-winning 2004 indie-hit Read More

9/14/07
Romance & Cigarettes

Actors: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale

Synopsis: Actor and filmmaker John Turturro wrote and directed this emotionally resonant blend of music and drama. Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who has been married for years to Kitty (Susan Sarandon), who works as a seamstress and is the mother of Nick's three daughters. While Nick loves Read More

9/7/07
Bernard and Doris

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandon, James Rebhorn, Monique Curnen

Synopsis: Director Bob Balaban's fictional drama presents a speculative exploration of the relationship shared between wealthy tobacco heiress Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) and her Irish butler Bernard Lafferty (Ralph Finnes) who, after just six years working as Duke's servant, was posthumously awarded Read More

2007
Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran who all formed an unbreakable bond while help prisoner in a World War II concentration camp reunite for the first time in forty years on the Read More

2007
Two Bells/Two Cities

Actors: Susan Sarandon

2006
Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City

Synopsis: A group of dedicated female firefighters struggle for the right to battle blazes alongside the most macho firemen in the entire country, only to be ostracized, humiliated, abused, and tormented by the very co-workers who were supposed to stick with them through thick and thin. Narrated by Susan Read More

2006
Elizabethtown

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel

Synopsis: A young man in need of a fresh start gets one under highly unexpected circumstances in this emotionally resonant comedy drama from writer and director Cameron Crowe. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is considered the big success story in his family, having moved away from the small Kentucky town where Read More

10/14/05
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood

Actors: Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: The world's most obnoxious celebrity talk-show host demonstrates how he rose to mediocrity in this pungent show business satire. Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) is a corpulent entertainment reporter who is looking to kick his career into high gear. Hoping to snag some celebrity interviews, Jiminy and Read More

5/6/05
Irresistible

Synopsis: A paranoid housewife finds that her worst fears are merely dwarfed be the terrifying reality of her dangerous obsession in director Ann Turner's psychologically bent study in fear starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, and Emily Blunt. Convinced that her husband's beautiful co-worker Mara (Blunt) is Read More

2005
The Exonerated

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Adapted by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from their own off-Broadway play, The Exonerated dramatizes the real-life stories of six innocent citizens who spent anywhere from three to 20 years on death row until DNA testing proved that they had all been falsely convicted. Each of the six stories is Read More

2005
Noel

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Marcus Thomas

Synopsis: A group of disparate characters look for understanding and compassion in the midst of a lonely holiday season in this comedy drama. Rose (Susan Sarandon) is a middle-aged divorcée whose mother is in the hospital with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease; while Rose wants one more chance to tell Read More

11/12/04
Alfie

Actors: Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Jane Krakowski, Sienna Miller, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: This remake of Lewis Gilbert's 1966 film of the same name features Jude Law filling the shoes Michael Caine once wore in the title role of Alfie. As with the original, Law occasionally speaks directly to the camera while his character talks of the opposite sex. Under the direction of Charles Read More

11/5/04
Shall We Dance?

Actors: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Ann Walter

Synopsis: Directed by Peter Chelsom, this film is the English-language remake of Masayuki Suo's 1995 romantic comedy of the same name; the Japanese version earned a record-breaking 9.5 million dollars in United States box offices. Shall We Dance? revolves around John Clark (Richard Gere), a workaholic Read More

10/15/04
In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

2004
Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars

2004
Ethics and the World Crisis: A Dialogue With the Dalai Lama

Actors: The Dalai Lama (XIV), Robert A.F. Thurman

Synopsis: Buddhist leader His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the focal point of this panel discussion, in which a group of political, environmental, and spiritual activists discuss the dangers and dilemmas that face the global community at the dawn of the 21st century. Ethics and the World Read More

2004
XXI Century, Part 4: War, Peace and Patriotism

2004
The Peace! DVD

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Ossie Davis, Danny Glover

Synopsis: A pair of pacifist-minded documentarians reach out to dozens of their generation's greatest thinkers in a bid to ensure a peaceful future for all in this documentary that encourages viewers to take an active role in the peace process. From September 2002 to May 2003, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini Read More

2004
The Party's Over

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow-up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign. In The Last Party 2000 Read More

10/24/03
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Shortly after graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, filmmaker Tom Peosay and his wife Sue (an Asian Studies major) set out on a tour of Asia that culminated in an extended stay in the Chinese-occupied nation of Tibet. With that formative visit, the Peosays became actively Read More

9/19/03
The Nazi Officer's Wife

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Julia Ormond, Edith Hahn Beer, Angela Schluter

Synopsis: Filmmaker Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA) documents the extraordinary story of Edith Hahn in The Nazi Officer's Wife. Using old newsreel footage, personal photos, and interviews with Hahn, her daughter Angela, and various acquaintances, with narration by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond (who Read More

6/13/03
Children of Dune

Actors: Alec Newman, Julie Cox, Edward Atterton, Ian McNeice, Barbara Kodetova

Synopsis: Officially based on two of Frank Herbert's science fiction novels, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, this three-part, six-hour miniseries was actually a sequel to the Sci-Fi Channel's multipart adaptation of the original Dune. The story was set in the year 10,103: Having deposed the evil emperor Read More

2003
Tara's Daughter

Actors: Susan Sarandon

2003
The Spiritual Guide to Weight Loss

Actors: Norris Chumley, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: Host Susan Sarandon explores the common sense diet methods of Norris Chumley in this video designed to cut through the fads and get straight to the facts. By eschewing diet pills and starvation methods in favor of a sensible diet, embracing movement, and discovering a transformational self-love by Read More

2003
Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine, Cynthia Mace, Kathryn Zenna

Synopsis: It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Read More

2003
Moonlight Mile

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Frequent television director Brad Silberling directs the romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s, Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon), while trying Read More

9/27/02
The Banger Sisters

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush, Erika Christensen, Eva Amurri

Synopsis: For some folks, the 1960s never really ended, and one woman still cheerfully stuck in the Summer of Love discovers her one-time best friend has left that decade as far behind as humanly possible in this comedy. In the late '60s and early '70s, Suzette (Goldie Hawn) and Vinnie (Susan Sarandon) were Read More

9/20/02
Igby Goes Down

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon Read More

9/13/02
For Love of Julian

Actors: Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon is the narrator for this documentary, which takes a close and compassionate look at children with multiple physical handicaps, and the parents who love and care for them. In addition to chronicling the lives of six families caring for severely challenged children, For Love of Julian Read More

2002
Independent Lens [TV Series]

2002
Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

2002
Cats and Dogs

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Miriam Margolyes, Alexander Pollock, Tobey Maguire

Synopsis: This talking-animal action comedy from Lawrence Guterman, the co-director of Antz (1998), follows on the heels of the Babe and Dr. Dolittle films. Unknown to humans, a secret war has been raging between cats and dogs for eons, but a fragile truce has long held the order of the animal kingdom in Read More

7/4/01
Ghosts of Attica

2001
The Joy of Weight Loss

Synopsis: The inspiring documentary The Joy of Weight Loss profiles five people who have lost a great deal of weight via original and healthful alternative methods. Susan Sarandon and Norris Chumley provide thoughtful commentary, detailing stories of once obese men and women who turned to spirituality and Read More

2001
Rudyland

2001
The Next Industrial Revolution

2001
Friends: The One With Joey's New Brain

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Eva Amurri, Jack Betts, George Stults, Jack Asch

Synopsis: In the third of four special 40-minute Friends episodes which originally ran in February 2000, Susan Sarandon guests as Jessica Lockhart, one of the stars of Days of Our Lives, the TV soap opera in which Joey (Matt LeBlanc) has returned in the role of the comatose Dr. Drake Ramoray. Under normal Read More

2001
The Concert For New York City

Synopsis: In the wake of the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, many figures in the entertainment community stepped forward to offer their talents to raise money towards relief efforts for the victims and their survivors. On October 20, 2001, some of the biggest names in Read More

2001
The Shaman's Apprentice

2001
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Actors: Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Michael Patrick Bell, Susan Sarandon, Cheryl Chase

Synopsis: The biggest babies in the entertainment business take their act to Europe in this sequel to the surprise-hit animated feature The Rugrats Movie. Chuckie (voice of Christine Cavanaugh) has been fretting over his father Chas (voice of Michael Bell) and his status as a single father, as he wants to Read More

11/17/00
Joe Gould's Secret

Actors: Marc Alan Austen, Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Andrei Belgrader, Ted Blumberg, Patricia Clarkson, Hope Davis, Harry Bugin, Nell Campbell, Steve Martin

Synopsis: This historical comedy-drama is based on the true story of Joe Gould, a bohemian eccentric who was a fixture in New York's Greenwich Village from his arrival in 1916 to his death in 1964. Gould, who claimed to be a graduate of Harvard, would cadge drinks and subsist on catsup as he regaled patrons Read More

4/7/00
Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales

Synopsis: This HBO special features the classic children's tale Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. The story is brought to life with vivid animation and narration by Susan Sarandon. Also included in this special nighttime collection for kids are Tony Bennett singing "Hit the Road to Read More

2000
Iditarod... A Far Distant Place

Synopsis: Meaning "a far, distant place" in the Inuit language, Iditarod is also the name of a 1,100 mile dogsled trek over the Alaskan tundra. Director Alice Dungan Bouvrie's documentary centers on the efforts of three competitors: Lynda Plettner, one of nine recorded women to participate in the 1998 Read More

2000
Reel Models: The First Women of Film

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, Barbra Streisand

Synopsis: Barbara Streisand produces this documentary look at four early cinematic female innovators -- Alice Guy, Lois Weber, Frances Marion, and Dorothy Arzner -- narrated by Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Hilary Swank, and Minnie Driver, respectively. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
Broken Child

2000
Light Keeps Me Company

Actors: Woody Allen, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This moving, finely-wrought portrayal of legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist was directed by his son Carl-Gustav Nykvist -- a noted filmmaker himself. Spanning from long forgotten kiddie flick in 1945 to Woody Allen's Celebrity (1997), Nykvist's career came to an abrupt end when he was Read More

2000
This is What Democracy Looks Like

Actors: Michael Franti, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: In 1999, representatives from some of the world's largest and most powerful economic forces met in Seattle, WA, for the World Trade Organization summit. They were met by a diverse group of activists, ranging from youthful peace-punks to veteran trade union members, who intended to publicly air Read More

2000
900 Women

Actors: Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon narrates this documentary about the inhabitants of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, a prison for women that houses female offenders ranging from minimum-security cases to women who have been sentenced to death and await execution. Director Laleh Khadivi interviews a Read More

2000
NOVA: Dying to Be Thin

Synopsis: Nova explores the serious consequences of eating disorders in Nova: Dying to Be Thin. Anorexia and bulimia have become mainstream maladies, with open discussion of the millions of cases throughout the U.S. Anorexia alone accounts for the highest death rate of any psychological illness. If patients Read More

2000
Cradle Will Rock

Actors: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis: The sometimes rocky relationship between art and politics in America in the 1930s -- as well as the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling -- sets the stage for Tim Robbins' ambitious comedy-drama Cradle Will Rock. Pulling together a variety of threads from actual events, Robbins examines the Read More

12/8/99
Anywhere But Here

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Eileen Ryan, Ray Baker, John Diehl

Synopsis: As with his earlier film The Joy Luck Club (1993), Chinese director Wayne Wang tackles mother-daughter relationships in this coming of age comedy-drama. Susan Sarandon stars as Adele August, a Bay City, Wisconsin, mother who longs for a more exciting and glamorous life in Beverly Hills Read More

11/12/99
Illuminata

Actors: John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: Actor John Turturro, who made his directorial debut with the Cannes Camera d'Or winner Mac (1992), returned to directing with this period farce about a struggling, turn-of-the-century New York repertory company owned by Astergourd (Beverly D'Angelo) and Pallenchio (Donal McCann). Egotistical Read More

8/6/99
Earthly Possessions

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Stephen Dorff, Elisabeth Moss, Jay O. Sanders, Alan Pottinger

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon stars in this made-for-cable-TV adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel about a housewife who thinks her life is going nowhere. However, she suddenly gets a lot more adventure than she bargained for when she's taken hostage during a bank robbery. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
The Secret Life of Geisha

Synopsis: The centuries-old, mysterious Geisha tradition has played a significant part in Japanese society and has long been been held in a place of honor. Geishas have been trained since childhood in music, dance, the arts, formal ceremonies, conversation, and various ways of bolstering and indulging "the Read More

1999
Fresco: The Ancient Art of Fresco Comes Alive

Synopsis: This PBS documentary takes a look at the ancient art of fresco. Fresco is the classic art of painting on wet plaster. Narrators Susan Sarandon and Richard Kiley take viewers through its history and its modern-day revival. This video shows how this very old artistic style of painting is being Read More

1999
Stepmom

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus continues to explore the family turmoil of divorce in the tearjerker Stepmom, a story that pits the birth mother against the new mother. Jackie (Susan Sarandon), a one-time book editor, is now the consummate soccer mom juggling the schedules of her two kids Read More

12/25/98
Twilight

Actors: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by 17-year-old Mel Ames (Reese Witherspoon) during his Read More

1998
War Zone

Actors: Maggie Hadleigh-West

Synopsis: For this documentary on public behavior by men toward women and how women are affected by this, filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West shot on the streets of four cities (New Orleans, San Francisco, NYC, Chicago), interviewing 1,053 men. She edited that material down to the 53 subjects seen in this Read More

1998
Joseph Campbell: Mythos 2.5 - The Experience of God

Synopsis: As the final part of the Joseph Campbell's Mythos Series, this video sums up Campbell's exploration of the Eastern traditions by showing the many teachers of wisdom who have believed that god or enlightenment are not outside of a person, they are within; meaning every human is in essence a part of Read More

1997
Joseph Campbell: Mythos 2.2 - The Enli