Dead Man Walking (film) Dead Man Walking (film) Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book of the same name. Sister Helen Prejean (Sarandon) establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet (Penn) – based on real-life murderers Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie – a prisoner on death row in Louisiana, acting as his spiritual adviser after carrying on correspondence with him. Matthew Poncelet has been in prison for six years, awaiting his execution after being sentenced to death for
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