Cher as Alexandra, Michelle Pfeiffer as Sukie
& Susan Sarandon as Jane
Three New England divorcees discover that when they are together and thinking the same thing, they have the ability to conjur that thing up. Bored with the routine of their dull and romance-less small town lives, they decide to put their heads together and "create" their dream man. They do and he turns up in the form of a wealthy but bizarre Romeo named Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson), who zeroes in on the women and by tapping into their psyches is able to expose their needs and worst fears and eventually succeeds in seducing each one of them. When the nosy wife of the town's newspaper publisher (Veronica Cartwright as Felicia) catches on to his real identity and causes the women to cool it with Van Horne, he decides to get the meddlesome Felicia out of the way (cherries anyone?) and this finally clues the women in to what they've really done. Each of them now pregnant with his child take Daryl back but with a plan to rid themselves of this devil by retaliating with the same supernatural tricks they learned from him. Jack delivers some of the films's wittiest lines ("When we make mistakes, they call it evil. When God makes mistakes, they call it nature.) and proves to be as hilariousa screen devil as we are ever likely to see and the movie successfully blends horror, fantasy and comedy together to create a uniquely entertaining film.
Biography for Cher
Date of birth
20 May 1946
El Centro, California, USA
Birth name
Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre
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Trivia
Daughter of Georgia Holt.
Mother, with Sonny Bono, of Chastity Bono.
Diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 30.
Was living with rock musician Gene Simmons of Kiss for several years.
Offered the part of Thelma in Thelma & Louise (1991).
Cher's very first recording was novelty record "I LOVE YOU RINGO" under the name of Bonnie Jo Mason in 1963.
Her favourite makeup artist, Kevyn Aucoin, died in 2002 of a brain tumor.
Has mostly been living in London, UK over the last few years.
Holds the record for a female artist who has the longest span from entering the top 100 (I Got You Babe #1 1965, Song For The Lonely #85 2002)
Holds the record for the the longest gap between #1 hits (Dark Lady, 1974, Believe 1999)
Holds the record for oldest female artist with a #1 hit (Believe)
Son, Elijah Allman, fronts the band Deadsy.
Suffers from fear of flying.
Cher's very first recording was novelty record "I Love You Ringo", under the name of Bonnie Jo Mason in 1963.
A 2002 Rolling Stone article estimated her wealth at over 600 million dollars. Since then she has embarked on a hugely successful farewell tour that is still going and released a greatest hits CD that has spent weeks in the the Billboard top 10
Is a big Katharine Hepburn fan.
Named after Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl Crane.
Is the only certified female performer in music history to have had a U.S #1 single in the 1960s 1970s 1980s and 1990s
She and Barbra Streisand are the only two female performers in the U.S. to have had a #1 hit and won an Oscar.
Has appeared solo on the cover of People magazine a near record 13 times
Her father was Armenian, her mother was part Cherokee.
Legally changed her name from "Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre Bono Allman" to simply "Cher".
Beat out Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" for the best selling singal of 1998 with "Believe"
Her music video "If I Could Turn Back Time" was the first video to be banned by MTV.
Wanted to play Morticia in the Addams Family, The (1991) but the part went to Anjelica Huston
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Personal quotes
"Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and the next year everyone's so over me."
"I answer to two people: myself and my God."
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."
"I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer. Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house. When you go to someone else's house for a party, it's not your responsibility at all, but when you have the party at your own house, there's a lot of responsibility. Everyone has to have a good time. So for me, acting is deeper".
"In this business you have to be tough, and if someone pushes me really far I can certainly be impossible. I've always said, 'if you're nice they walk over you and if you stand up for yourself they call you a bitch'".
"I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years".
"I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother".
"I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off." - (People Magazine 7/1/85)
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Her Top 40 hits and TV series with then-husband Sonny Bono in the 1960s and 1970s made Cher a pop culture icon before she ever hit the silver screen. Her struggle to be taken seriously as an actress while not sacrificing any of the campy flamboyance she displayed in her singing career has provided consistent fodder for the entertainment media. She first surprised doubters with a credible turn in a "small" picture, Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). She had appeared in three films before that, including the William Friedkin-directed Good Times (1967, with Sonny). She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for a strong performance as title character Meryl Streep's unglamorous, hardheaded lesbian roommate in Silkwood (1983), her first prestige production. Cher's clashes with director Peter Bogdanovich on the set of her next picture, the I-was-ateenage-Elephant-Man tearjerker Mask (1985, which earned her a shared Best Actress award at Cannes), along with her general outspokenness, penchant for tattoos, and exhibitionistic fashion sense ignited a media myth she appeared to resent even as she stoked its fires.
The Oscar that she coveted did not elude her for long; she won the 1987 Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in Moonstruck a romantic comedy centering around some eccentric Brooklyn Italians. She was also featured with two other major female stars, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, in 1987's desultory The Witches of Eastwick after taking time from films to pick up the slack of her increasingly irrelevant but still fairly lucrative singing career, she made Mermaids (1990), during the shooting of which her displeasure with original director Frank Oz led to his being replaced by Richard Benjamin. Cher was inactive on screen for several years, focusing instead on hugely successful exercise videos and infomercials. After cameos (as herself) in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Ready to Wear/Pr�t-�-Porter (1994), she returned as a hit man's target in Faithful (1995).
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Links:
Cher:
Mayor of Sunset Strip (2001) .... Herself
National Lottery Christmas Cracker (2001) (TV) .... Herself
... aka Dale's National Lottery Christmas Cracker (2001) (TV) (UK: complete title)
Royal Variety Performance 2001, The (2001) (TV) .... Performer
I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special (2001) (TV) .... Herself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV) .... Herself
Cher: Live in Concert from Las Vegas (1999) (V) .... Herself
VH1 Divas Live/99 (1999) (TV) .... Herself
Tea with Mussolini (1999) .... Elsa Morganthal Strauss-Armistan
... aka Te con Mussolini, Un (1999) (Italy)
26th Annual American Music Awards (1998) (TV) .... Herself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998) (TV) .... Herself
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life (1997) (TV) .... Herself
Nine (1996) (VG) (voice) .... Isadora
If These Walls Could Talk (1996) (TV) .... Dr. Beth Thompson (segment "1996")
Faithful (1996) .... Margaret
Comic Relief: Behind the Nose (1995) (TV) .... Herself
Flashbacks 2: Pop Parade (1994) (V) (as Sonny and Cher) .... Herself
Pr�t-�-Porter (1994) .... Herself
... aka Ready to Wear (1994)
Cher: Extravaganza - Live at the Mirage (1992) (V) .... Herself
Cherfitness: Body Confidence (1992) (V) .... Herself
Grand Opening of Euro Disney, The (1992) (TV) .... Herself
Oscar's Greatest Moments: 1971 to 1991 (1992) (V) .... Herself
Player, The (1992) .... Herself
Cherfitness: A New Attitude (1991) (V) .... Herself
Cher... at the Mirage (1990) (TV) .... Herself
Club Rhino (1990) (TV)
Mermaids (1990) .... Rachel Flax
Christmas Special (1988) (TV) .... Herself
... aka Pee-Wee Herman's Christmas Special (1988) (TV) (USA: complete title)
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (1988) (V) (archive footage) .... Herself
... aka Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (1988) (V) (USA: video box title)
Suspect (1987) .... Kathleen Riley
Witches of Eastwick, The (1987) .... Alexandra Medford
Moonstruck (1987) .... Loretta Castorini
Rabbit Ears: The Ugly Duckling (1985) (V) .... Storyteller
Mask (1985) .... Francais 'Rusty' Dennis
Silkwood (1983) .... Dolly Pelliker
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) .... Sissy
Cher... Special (1978) (TV)
"Sonny and Cher Show, The" (1976) TV Series .... Co-Host
"Cher" (1975) TV Series .... Herself/Host
"Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The" (1971) TV Series .... Herself/Host
Sonny & Cher: Nitty Gritty Hour (1970) (V) .... Herself/Host
Chastity (1969) (as Ch�r) .... Chastity
Good Times (1967) .... Herself
Wild on the Beach (1965) .... Herself
... aka Beach House Party (1965)
Biography for Michelle Pfeiffer
Date of birth
29 April 1958
Santa Ana, California, USA
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Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, CA to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori, who dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it her life's work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1976, and attended one year at the Golden West College, where she studied to become a court reporter. But it was while working as a supermarket checker at Vons, a large Southern California grocery chain, that she realized her true calling. She was married to actor/director Peter Horton ("Gary" of "thirtysomething" (1987)) in 1981. They were later divorced, and she then had a three year relationship with actor Fisher Stevens. When that didn't work out, Pfeiffer decided she didn't want to wait any longer before having her own family, and in March of 1993, she adopted a baby girl, Claudia Rose. On November 13th of the same year, she married lawyer-turned-writer/producer David E. Kelley (creator of "Picket Fences and "Chicago Hope"). On August 5, 1994 their son, John Henry was born.
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Trivia
Graduated from high school in 3 years.
Used to work in a clothing store.
(1999) Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
(October 1997) Ranked #39 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
She thought about looking for a man to father a child with "no strings attached", but decided to adopt instead. She adopted a daughter, 'Claudia Rose'.
She is in the horn section of B.B. King's "In The Midnight Hour" music video.
She was in Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" music video.
Won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant.
(1997) Was voted Best Dressed Female Movie Star
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world (1990)
Studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Michelle's name was misspelled as 'Michele' in the credits of her film, Callie & Son (1981) (TV).
(1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#3).
Replaced Annette Bening as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992).
Does her own singing in Prince of Egypt, The (1998).
Was offered the role of Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, The (1991).
Replaced Madonna for the lead in Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989).
(2000) The character Catwoman/Selina Kyle, who she played in Batman Returns (1992), was voted #3 in Empire's "69 Sexiest Movie Character of All Time".
Turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992).
Her favorite movie of 1995 was Muriel's Wedding (1994).
Tried out for the part of Tiffany Welles on "Charlie's Angels" (1976) but the part went to Shelley Hack.
Has a son named Jack Henry (born in 1994) with husband, 'David E. Kelly' .
Accidentally cut Al Pacino with broken glass while auditioning for Scarface.
Studied acting under Geraldine Page at workshop at LA's Ahmanson Theater.
Her first job as a performer was playing Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" at Disneyland in the Main Street Electrical Parade in the mid 1970s.
Actor Val Kilmer wrote poetry for her.
While a teenage clerk at Von's Grocery Store in California, c. 1974, she learned to tie marischino cherry stems in knots with her tongue(!)
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Personal quotes
"I still think people will find out that I'm really not very talented. I'm really not very good. It's all just been a big sham."
(On playing her part of Claire Spencer in What Lies Beneath)" I thought about Drew Barrymore in the first Scream - I mean, ultimately that movie was more funny than scary, but the opening sequence was quite terrifying, and she protrayed terror in a way I'd never seen an actress do."
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
It's doubtful that anyone would have chosen the California blonde from Grease 2 to become one of the movies' biggest stars and leading actresses. The preternaturally beautiful Pfeiffer, with haunting green eyes and silken blond hair, had her looks held against her during her struggle to be taken seriously. Her career began with appearances in short-lived TV comedies like "Delta House," and such films as The Hollywood Knights, Falling in Love Again (both 1980), and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981). Landing the female lead in Grease 2 (1982) should have been a plum, but the film was a flop, she was dull, and few moviegoers took notice. She had little to do but look beautiful as the wife of drug dealer Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino) in 1983's ultraviolent remake of Scarface But gradually, her parts-and her performancesgot better: in Ladyhawke and Into the Night (both 1985), and especially in Sweet Liberty (1986), delivering a multilayered, amusing performance as an eccentric actress. She then held her own alongside Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Jack Nicholson in 1987's The Witches of Eastwick but really blossomed in Jonathan Demme's lively comedy Married to the Mob (1988), in a knowing and appealing performance as a mobster's young widow. Later that year she won over most remaining skeptics in the period drama Dangerous Liaisons (1988) for which she earned her first Oscar nomination, as Best Supporting Actress.
Pfeiffer cemented her newly fortified stardom with her sultry portrayal of a call girl turned torch songstress in The Fabulous Baker Boys (earning another Oscar nomination), and caused a sensation with her sexy rendition of "Makin' Whoopee" atop Jeff Bridges' piano. She was now a world-class star. She adopted a Russian accent for 1990's The Russia House and deglamorized herself for a moving performance opposite Al Pacino in 1991's Frankie and Johnny playing a lonely waitress terrified of human contact. When Annette Bening became pregnant, Pfeiffer inherited her most flamboyant role to date: Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992). Later that year she top lined Jonathan Kaplan's moving drama Love Field and scored her third Oscar nomination.
In 1993 she was cast by Martin Scorsese as the slightly scandalous young woman who overwhelms Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1870s period piece The Age of Innocence then reunited with Jack Nicholson for the contemporary werewolf saga Wolf (1994).
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Links:
Fan Site
Michelle Pfeiffer Information
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Michelle Pfeiffer:
Chasing Montana (2005) (pre-production)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice) .... Eris
White Oleander (2002) .... Ingrid Magnussen
I Am Sam (2001) .... Rita Harrison
What Lies Beneath (2000) .... Claire Spencer
Story of Us, The (1999) .... Katie Jordan
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1999) .... Titania
... aka Sogno di una notte di mezza estate (1999) (Italy)
... aka William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) (USA: complete title)
Deep End of the Ocean, The (1999) .... Beth Cappadora
Prince of Egypt, The (1998) (voice) .... Tzipporah
Thousand Acres, A (1997) .... Rose Cook Lewis
One Fine Day (1996) .... Melanie Parker
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996) .... Gillian Lewis
Up Close & Personal (1996) .... Tally Atwater (formerly Sally)
Dangerous Minds (1995) .... Louanne Johnson
Wolf (1994) .... Laura Alden
Age of Innocence, The (1993) .... Ellen Olenska
Love Field (1992) .... Lurene Hallett
Batman Returns (1992) .... Catwoman/Selina Kyle
Frankie and Johnny (1991) .... Frankie
Russia House, The (1990) .... Katya Orlova
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989) .... Susie Diamond
Tequila Sunrise (1988) .... Jo Ann Vallenari
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) .... Madame de Tourvel
Married to the Mob (1988) .... Angela DeMarco
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) .... Brenda (segment "Hospital")
... aka Cheeseburger Film Sandwich (1987)
Power, Passion and Murder (1987) (TV) .... Natica Jackson
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson (1987) (TV) .... Natica Jackson
Witches of Eastwick, The (1987) .... Sukie Ridgemont
Sweet Liberty (1986) .... Faith Healy
Into the Night (1985) .... Diana
Ladyhawke (1985) .... Isabeau Dante
One Too Many (1983) (TV) .... Annie
Scarface (1983) .... Elvira Hancock
Grease 2 (1982) .... Stephanie Zinone
Children Nobody Wanted, The (1981) (TV) .... Jennifer
Splendor in the Grass (1981) (TV) .... Ginny Stamper
Callie & Son (1981) (TV) .... Sue Lynn Bordeaux
... aka Rags to Riches (1981) (TV)
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) .... Cordelia Farenington
Falling in Love Again (1980) .... Sue Wellington
... aka In Love (1980)
Hollywood Knights, The (1980) .... Suzie Q
"B.A.D. Cats" (1980) TV Series .... Samantha 'Sunshine' Jensen
Solitary Man, The (1979) (TV) .... Tricia
"Delta House" (1979/I) TV Series .... 'Bombshell' (1979)
Miscellaneous Crew
Being John Malkovich (1999) (acknowledgement)
The Prince of Egypt (1998) (singer: "When You Believe")
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) (singer: "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", "Makin' Whoopee", "My Funny Valentine" and "Ten Cents a Dance")
Grease 2 (1982) (singer: "Back To School Again", "Cool Rider", "Love Will Turn Back the Hands of Time", "A Girl for All Seasons" and "Who's That Guy?")
Producer
A Thousand Acres (1997) (producer)
One Fine Day (1996) (executive producer)
Biography for Susan Sarandon
Date of birth
4 October 1946
New York City, New York, USA
Birth name
Susan Abigail Tomalin
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It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who had studied to be an actor, was passed over. His wife Susan got the major role of the daughter of an advertising executive. Dad kills her drug dealer boyfriend and befriends an opinionated assembly line worker who collects guns. Five years later Sarandon made the film where fans of cult classics have come to know her as Janet, who gets entangled with transvestite Dr. Frank n Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975).
More than 15 years after beginning her career Sarandon at last actively campaigned for a great role -- Annie in Bull Durham (1988), flying at her own expense from Rome to Los Angeles. "It was such a wonderful script ... and did away with a lot of myths and challenged the American definition of success", she said. "When I got there, I spent some time with Kevin [Costner], kissed some ass at the studio and got back on a plane". Her romance with the "Bull Durham" supporting actor, Tim Robbins, had produced three sons by 1992 and put Sarandon in the position of leaving her domestic paradise only to accept roles that really challenged her. The result was four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s and best actress for Dead Man Walking (1995).
Her first Academy Award nomination was for Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980). When Robert Hofler, writing a 1994 article for BUZZ, asked Sarandon whether it was difficult being directed by the man she lived with (Tim Robbins for "Dead Man Walking"), she answered: "I lived and worked with another director, and when you do that, you're in a real hostage situation. There are situations where you'd walk off the picture, but you can't walk because you've gotta go home and make the tuna melt". Hofler: "You're talking about Louis Malle?" Sarandon: "Yeah". Hofler: "Malle directed you in 'Pretty Baby' and 'Atlantic City'. Did working with him contribute to your breaking up? Sarandon: "Nah. I'd quote Proust on that one. It was just time."
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Trivia
Her partner is Tim Robbins (1988-present)
(October 1997) Ranked #35 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
Attended Catholic University of America Drama School, 1964-1968. Met and married Chris Sarandon there (by priest who was head of Dept.).
Former "Ford" Model.
(1996) chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful in the world
Landed her first Hollywood role when her then-husband, Chris Sarandon, took her along on one of his auditions
As co-presenters of the Academy Awards in 1993, Susan and her partner, Tim Robbins, seized a chance to bring public attention to the plight of a few hundred Haitians with Aids who had been interned in Guantanamo Bay.
Is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador
Has a daughter from relationship with Franco Amurri (Eva Amurri, born 1985).
Has two children by Tim Robbins (Jack Henry Robbins (May 1989), Miles Guthrie Robbins (May 1992).
Graduated from Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey where she was a cheerleader.
She keeps her Oscar in the bathroom.
Sang in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); recorded a duet with Eddie Vedder which played over the end credits of "Cradle Will Rock".
Was involved in the effort to have Dr. Laura Schlessinger's television show taken off the air in 2000, because of her disagreement with Schlessinger's conservative views. The effort was successful in leading many sponsors to drop their support of the show, which was ultimately cancelled less than a year after its premiere.
For the past ten years she has been involved with Heifer International, an organization that donates farm animals to needy families who need the animals for work.
Is the first actress to win an Oscar for playing a nun.
Named son "Jack Henry" soon after attending the murder trial of career criminal Jack Henry Abbott. Abbot convinced playwright Norman Mailer to support his parole and promptly stabbed to death a restaurant night manager within weeks of his release. The argument was over access to a private restroom.
(30 March 1999) Was arrested for disorderly conduct during a protest in New York over the unarmed shooting African immigrant Amadou Diallo by 4 policeman.
Is of Italian and Welsh heritage.
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Personal quotes
"I choose projects I can talk about for days because now you do publicity for as long as it took you to shoot the movie."
"I feel I've always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost."
"Sexuality ... is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get... If you can continue to say yes to life and to maintain a certain generosity of spirit, you become more and more of who you are."
"I think the only reason I remain an actor is that you can never quite get it right. So there is a challenge to it."
"If I were 22 and trying to build a career, I don't know who'd be watching the kids as happily as I do. It takes so much to get me to break out of domestic paradise. There's hardly anything that interests me as much as my family."
"The thing that's bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It'd be nice if you could have both. Anyway, I think my breasts have been highly overrated."
"The largest party in the United States is the 50 percent who don't vote."
"I haven't yet had any plastic surgery, but I won't knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It's hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that's huge. You can see every single line. But I think it's an aesthetic choice for the individual. I don't like it when surgeons take a perfectly interesting looking woman and she ends up looking like a female impersonator with these gigantic breasts. It's just so extreme and that worries me. I think everyone is looking the same."
"My children were embarrassed at my Lincoln Center Tribute. I forgot they would show film clips and my children hadn't seen anything. Every time something a little racy would come on like 'The Hunger,' I'd look at my 13-year-old, who was shielding his eyes."
"I'm certainly not an expert, but Tim and I just celebrated 17 years together, which in Hollywood years I think is 45. I think the key is just focusing on this one person and not keeping one eye on the door to see who might be better."
On Thelma & Louise after her nomination for best actress, 1992, "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the option of violence was hard for a lot of people to accept."
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
From her early film output, one would never have guessed that Susan Sarandon would emerge as a major female star in the 1980s-or that, in her 40s, she would stand as the very definition of a mature, modern, liberated, sexual woman on screen. She debuted as the defiant hippie daughter in 1970's Joe and kept busy throughout the seventies in a mixed bag of movies, including Lady Liberty (1971), Lovin' Molly, The Front Page (both 1974), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), One Summer Love (1976; aka Dragonfly The Other Side of Midnight (1977), King of the Gypsies (1978), and Something Short of Paradise (1979). She played a virginal ingenue in the decade's ultimate cult movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), spending much of her screen time clad only in a bra and slip. The following year she coproduced and appeared in The Great Smokey Roadblock (1976). But it wasn't until 1978 that she had a really substantial part, in Louis Malle's controversial look at turn-of-the-century prostitution, Pretty Baby Moviegoers were impressed, and so was Malle, who cast her again as a weary working woman in his brilliant Atlantic City (1980), which earned Sarandon her first Oscar nomination.
A constant screen presence in the 1980s, she gave consistently strong per- formances in such films as Loving Couples (1980), Tempest (1982), The Hunger (1983, as a vampire), The Buddy System (1984), Compromising Positions (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Sweet Hearts Dance (1988), The January Manand A Dry White Season (both 1989). She won her best notices, however, for her performance as a seductive, middle-aged baseball groupie in the baseball comedy Bull Durham (1988), then took the lead as a sexy waitress who falls in love with a younger man in White Palace (1990). But nothing compared to the stir that was raised when she and Geena Davis starred in the role-reversal road movie Thelma & Louise (1991); she and Davis were ideally matched in this liberated "buddy" movie, and it earned them both Academy Award nominations. She was Oscar-nominated again for her intense dramatic performance as the mother of a boy with a baffling-and heartbreaking-disease in Lorenzo's Oil (1992). Other credits include Light Sleeper (1992), Little Women, Safe Passage and The Client (all 1994, the last-named earning her a fourth Best Actress nomination). She also contributed a funny cameo (as a newscaster) to Tim Robbins' satiric Bob Roberts (1992). Formerly married to actor Chris Sarandon (himself Oscar-nominated for Dog Day Afternoon and memorable in Fright Night and The Princess Bride she met Robbins on the set of Bull Durham and has since had two children with him.
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Links:
Susan Sarandon Fan Site
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Susan Sarandon:
A Whale in Montana (2005) (filming)
Romance & Cigarettes (2005) (post-production) .... Kitty Kane
Elizabethtown (2005) (post-production) .... Hollie Baylor
The Exonerated (2005) (TV) .... Sunny
Alfie (2004) .... Liz
Shall We Dance (2004) .... Beverly Clark
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004)
Noel (2004) .... Rose Harrison
Ice Bound (2003) (TV) .... Jerri Nielsen
... aka Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole (Canada: English title)
... aka Prison de glace (Canada: French title)
"Children of Dune" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Princess Wensicia Corrino
... aka Dune - Bedrohung des Imperiums (Germany: second part title)
... aka Dune - Der Messias (Germany: first part title)
... aka Dune - Die Kinder des W�stenplaneten (Germany: third part title)
... aka Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (USA: complete title)
Moonlight Mile (2002) .... Jojo Floss
Igby Goes Down (2002) .... Mimi Slocumb
This Child of Mine (2002) .... Narrator
Banger Sisters, The (2002) .... Lavinia
Uphill All the Way (2001) (voice) .... Narrator
Concert for New York City (2001) (TV) .... Herself
Rudyland (2001) .... Narrator
Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice) .... Ivy
900 Women (2001) (voice) .... Narrator
Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto (2000) (V) .... Herself (Interviewee)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (voice) .... Coco LaBouche
... aka Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II (2000) (USA: complete title)
This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) (voice) .... Narrator
Iditarod: A Far Distant Place (2000) .... Narrator
Dirty Pictures (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Ljuset h�ller mig s�llskap (2000) .... Herself
... aka Light Keeps Me Company (2000) (Europe: English title)
Joe Gould's Secret (2000) .... Alice Neel
"Secret Life of Geisha, The" (1999) TV Series .... Narrator
Our Friend, Martin (1999) (V) (voice) .... Mrs. Clark
Anywhere But Here (1999) .... Adele August
Cradle Will Rock (1999) .... Margherita Sarfatti
Earthly Possessions (1999) (TV) .... Charlotte Emory
VH1 Divas Live (1998) (TV) .... Presenter
Stepmom (1998) .... Jacqueline 'Jackie' Harrison
Illuminata (1998) .... Celimene
Twilight (1998) .... Catherine Ames
187: Documented (1997) .... Voice
Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins (1997) (voice) .... Narrator
Need to Know, The (1997/I) (voice) .... Narrator
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996) (voice) .... Narrator
James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice) .... Spider
Dead Man Walking (1995) .... Sister Helen Prejean
Celluloid Closet, The (1995) .... Interviewee
... aka Celluloid Closet (1996) (France)
... aka Gefangen in der Traumfabrik (1995) (Germany)
67th Annual Academy Awards, The (1995) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Art Direction
Client, The (1994) .... Reggie Love
Safe Passage (1994) .... Mag Singer
Little Women (1994) .... Marmee March
65th Annual Academy Awards, The (1993) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Supporting Actor
Bob Roberts (1992) .... News Anchor, Tawna Titan
Lorenzo's Oil (1992) .... Michaela Odone
Player, The (1992) .... Herself
64th Annual Academy Awards, The (1992) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Film Editing
Light Sleeper (1991) .... Ann
Thelma & Louise (1991) .... Louise Sawyer
63rd Annual Academy Awards, The (1991) (TV) (uncredited) .... Presenter - Best Art Direction
Through the Wire (1990) .... Narrator
White Palace (1990) .... Nora Baker
Dry White Season, A (1989) .... Melanie Bruwer
January Man (1989) .... Christine Starkey
AIDS: The Facts of Life (1988) (TV) .... Herself
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988) .... Sandra Boon
Bull Durham (1988) .... Annie Savoy/Narrator
Witches of Eastwick, The (1987) .... Jane Spofford
Women of Valor (1986) (TV) .... Colonel Margaret Ann Jessup
Compromising Positions (1985) .... Judith Singer
Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce (1985) (TV) .... Edda Ciano
... aka Mussolini and I (1985) (TV)
"A.D." (1985) (mini) TV Series .... Livilla
... aka "A.D. - Anno Domini" (1985) (mini)
Buddy System, The (1984) .... Emily
Hunger, The (1983) .... Sarah Roberts
"Faerie Tale Theatre" (1982) TV Series (Beauty & the Beast) .... Beauty
... aka "Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre" (1982) (USA)
Tempest (1982) .... Aretha
Who Am I This Time? (1981) (TV) .... Helene Shaw
Loving Couples (1980) .... Stephanie
Atlantic City (1980) .... Sally Matthews
... aka Atlantic City, U.S.A. (1980)
Something Short of Paradise (1979) .... Madeline Ross
... aka Perfect Love (1979) (USA: video title)
King of the Gypsies (1978) .... Rose
Pretty Baby (1978) .... Hattie
Other Side of Midnight, The (1977) .... Catherine Alexander Souglas
Checkered Flag or Crash (1977) .... C.C. Wainwright
... aka Crash (1977/II)
Dragonfly (1976) .... Chloe
... aka One Summer Love (1976) (USA: reissue title)
Great Smokey Roadblock, The (1976) .... Ginny
... aka Last of the Cowboys, The (1976) (USA)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975) .... Janet Weiss (A Heroine)
... aka Rocky Horror Show, The (1975) (UK)
Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975) .... Mary Beth
Front Page, The (1974) .... Peggy Grant
Lovin' Molly (1974) .... Sarah
Satan Murders, The (1974) (TV)
June Moon (1974) (TV)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974) (TV) .... Ailie Calhoun
"Search for Tomorrow" (1951) TV Series .... Sarah Fairbanks (1972)
Mortadella, La (1971) .... Sally
... aka Lady Liberty (1971) (USA)
... aka Sausage, The (1971) (Italy)
Fleur bleue (1971) .... Elizabeth Hawkins
... aka Apprentice, The (1971)
Joe (1970) .... Melissa Compton
"World Apart, A" (1970) TV Series .... Patrice Kahlman (1970-1971)
Producer
Moonlight Mile (2002) (executive producer)
Stepmom (1998) (executive producer)
The Last of the Cowboys (1977) (co-producer)
... aka The Great Smokey Roadblock (USA: new title)
Other Michelle Pfeiffer pages on Women of Horror:
Other Susan Sarandon pages on Women of Horror:
What Lies Beneath
The Hunger
