Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon Susan Abigail Tomalin, better known as Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist. She has received an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. She is known for her social and political activism for a variety of causes. She was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006. Sarandon began her career in the 1970 film "Joe", before appearing in the soap opera "A
Susan Sarandon six-time Emmy Award nominee, including for her guest roles on the sitcoms "Friends" (2001) and "Malcolm in the Middle" (2002), and appearances in the TV films "Bernard and Doris" (2007) and "You Don't Know Jack" (2010). In 2017, Sarandon portrayed Bette Davis in the first season of FX's anthology series "Feud", for which she was nominated for both for acting and producing Emmys. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for executive producing "Cool Women in History" in 2002. Sarandon was born in the Queens borough of New York City. She is the eldest of nine children of