Susan Sarandon received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Stockholm International Film Festival, was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010, and received the Outstanding Artistic Life Award for her Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2013, she was invited to inaugurate the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. In 2015, Sarandon received the Goldene Kamera international lifetime achievement award. 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
Glenn Close television movie "Orphan Train" and "Too Far to Go". The latter film, included Blythe Danner and Michael Moriarty in the cast, Close played Moriarty's lover. In 1980, director George Roy Hill discovered Close on Broadway and asked her to audition with Robin Williams for a role in "The World According to Garp," which would become her first film role. The 1980s proved to be Close's most successful decade in Hollywood. She made her debut film performance in "The World According to Garp" which earned Close her first Oscar nomination. She played Robin Williams' mother, despite being just four years older.