Helen Prejean her best-selling book, "Dead Man Walking" (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on Death Row for whom she served as spiritual adviser before their executions. In her book, she explored the effects of the death penalty on everyone involved. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. It was also adapted as an opera, first produced in 2000 by the San Francisco Opera. Helen Prejean was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the daughter of Augusta Mae (née Bourg; 1911–1993), a nurse, and Louis Sebastian Prejean (1893–1974), a lawyer.
Susan Sarandon the co-owner of this New York ping-pong club and its Toronto branch SPiN Toronto. Sarandon and Bricklin broke up in 2015. In 2006, Sarandon and ten relatives, including her then-partner, Tim Robbins, and their son Miles traveled to Wales to trace her family's Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme, "Coming Home: Susan Sarandon". Much of the same research and content was featured in the American version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" She also received the "Ragusani Nel Mondo" prize in 2006; her Sicilian roots are in Ragusa, Italy. Sarandon is a vegetarian. Sarandon