Sarandon made her film debut in Joe and appeared on the soap operas A World Apart β and Search for Tomorrow She returned to Broadway in the revival of Exit the King. She has four brothers: Phillip Leslie Jr.
On her mother's side, she is of Italian descent, with ancestors from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily. When she was four years old, [ 11 ] the Tomalin family moved from New York City to the newly developed Stephenville community, located in the northern area of Raritan now Edison Township, New Jersey. Although he did not get a part, she was cast in a major role of a disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld.
The latter earned Sarandon her first Academy Award nomination. Her most controversial film appearance was in Tony Scott 's The Hunger , a modern vampire story in which she had a sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. However, Sarandon did not become a "household name" until she appeared with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in the film Bull Durham , a commercial and critical success. Sarandon takes the kind of risk she took playing a stubbornly obsessed mother in Lorenzo's Oil.
She's commandingly blunt, and she avoids cheapening her performance with the wrong kind of compassion. Her Sister Helen is repelled and alarmed by this man, but she's determined to help him anyway.
That's what makes the film so unrelenting. Patty and Selma ". Sarandon has contributed the narration to two dozen documentary films, many of which dealt with social and political issues. In addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, Independent Lens.
