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SUSAN
SARANDON brings her own brand of sex appeal
and intelligence to every role.
Her
career blossomed with her fearless portrayal in “Bull
Durham” and then skyrocketed with her Oscar-nominated
performances in “Thelma and Louise,” “Lorenzo’s
Oil,” “The Client,” and “Atlantic
City” and her Academy Award-winning and SAG Award
winning role as Sister Helen, a nun consoling a death-row
inmate, in “Dead Man Walking.”
Sarandon
receives the first ever New Jersey Governor's Award
for Outstanding Contribution to Jersey Arts at this
year's Cape May NJ State Film Festival..
Sarandon,
a graduate of New Jersey’s Edison High School,
will be honored at the Film Festival Opening Night Gala
November 15th for her achievements as a New Jersey film
artist who has brought both intelligence and integrity
to the screen.
Through
her efforts as a spokesperson for the Discover Jersey
Arts initiative, Ms. Sarandon has helped improve public
awareness of the important role New Jersey has played
in the arts and that the arts play in New Jersey.
Sarandon
made her acting debut in the movie “Joe,”
which she followed with a continuing role in the drama
“A World Apart.”
Her
early film credits include “The Great Waldo Pepper,”
“Lovin' Molly,” “The Front Page”
and the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture
Show.”
In 1978 she played Brooke Shields’ mother in Louis
Malle’s controversial “Pretty Baby” and
went on to receive her first Oscar nomination in Malle’s
“Atlantic City.”
Sarandon’s
additional feature credits include “King of the
Gypsies,” “The Hunger,” “The Sweet
Hearts,” “Compromising Positions,”
“The January Man,” “White Palace,”
“The Buddy System,” “Sweet Hearts Dance,”
“A Dry White Season,” “The Witches of
Eastwick,” “Bob Roberts,” “Light
Sleeper,” “Little Women,” and “Safe
Passage.”
More
recently Sarandon starred opposite Paul Newman and Gene
Hackman in “Twilight”; with Julia Roberts
in the poignant comedy “Stepmom”; in the erotic
farce “Illuminata,” directed by John Turturro;
Tim Robbins’ drama “Cradle Will Rock”;
Wayne Wang’s “Anywhere But Here”; and
Stanley Tucci’s “Joe Gould’s Secret.”
She
also provided one of the voices for the hit animated
feature “Rugrats in Paris,” “James and
the Giant Peach,” and “Cats & Dogs”
and served as narrator for Laleh Khadivi’s documentary
“900 Women,” about female prison inmates.
She
starred in HBO’s “Earthly Possessions,”
based on the Anne Tyler novel and directed by James
Lapine.
On
Broadway, Sarandon appeared in “An Evening with
Richard Nixon” and received critical acclaim for
her performances Off-Broadway in “A Coupla White
Chicks Sitting Around Talkin'” and the thriller
“Extremities.” Off-Off-Broadway in
“The Guys.”
Her
latest films are Brad Silberling’s “Moonlight
Mile,” with Dustin Hoffman, “Igby Goes Down”
with Jeff Goldblum and “The Banger Sisters,”
with Goldie Hawn and Geoffrey Rush.
Those
three films will be screened Saturday, November 16,
during the Cape May NJ State Film Festival..
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