Susan Sarandon summary

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Susan Sarandon, orig. Susan Abigail Tomalin, (born Oct. 4, 1946, New York, N.Y., U.S.), U.S. film actress. After reading with her husband, Chris Sarandon (divorced 1979), at one of his auditions, she was cast as the female lead in Joe (1970). She won fans with the campy The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and then proved her talent in films such as Pretty Baby (1978), Atlantic City (1981), and The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Her later movies included Bull Durham (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), Dead Man Walking (1995, Academy Award), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Igby Goes Down (2002), In the Valley of Elah (2007), The Company You Keep (2012), About Ray (2015), and The Jesus Rolls (2019).

Academy Award Summary

Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly

acting Summary

Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or

film Summary

Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film