Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actor. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmography

• 2026LOVE — The Art Teacher
• 2026Life Support — Executive Producer
• 2026The Accompanist — Sylvia
• 2026The Echo Chamber — Ava
• 2025Baristas vs Billionaires — Narrator
• 2025Nonnas — Gia
• 2024Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue — Shades (voice)
• 2024Rebel Nun
• 2024The Fabulous Four — Lou, Executive Producer
• 2024The Gutter — Linda Curson
• 2024The Six Triple Eight — Eleanor Roosevelt
• 2023Blue Beetle — Victoria Kord
• 2023Healing US — Narrator
• Krapopolis — Demeter (voice)
• 2023Maybe I Do — Monica
• 2022Forty Winks — Connie Montoya
• Monarch — Dottie Cantrell Roman
• 2021Jolt — Woman with No Name
• 2021Red Bird Lane — Catherine
• 2021Ride the Eagle — Honey
• 2020Fearless — Mom (voice)
• 2020VHYes — Tracy Beth, Executive Producer
• 2019Blackbird — Lily
• 2019The Death & Life of John F. Donovan — Grace Donovan
• 2019The Jesus Rolls — Jean
• 2018American Mirror - Intimations of Immortality — Muse
• 2018Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Executive Producer
• 2018Survivor's Guide to Prison — Narrator (voice), Producer
• 2018Viper Club — Helen
• 2017A Bad Moms Christmas — Isis
• FEUD — Bette Davis, Producer
• Neo Yokio — Aunt Agatha (voice)
• 2017Soufra — Executive Producer
• 20163 Generations — Dolly
• 2016Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery — Detective Dottie Wheel
• 2016Mothers and Daughters — Millie
• 2016My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea — Lunch Lady Lorraine (voice)
• Search Party — Lylah
• 2016Spark: A Space Tail — Bananny (voice)
• 2016The Meddler — Marnie Minervini, Executive Producer
• 2016Zoolander 2 — Susan Sarandon (uncredited)
• 2015Deep Run — Executive Producer
• 2015Hell and Back — Barb the Angel (voice)
• Moonbeam City — Warden (voice)
• 2015Radical Grace — Executive Producer
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe — Gladys Mortenson
• 2015Unity — Narrator (voice)
• Doll & Em — Susan
• 2014Ping Pong Summer — Randi Jammer
• 2014Silenced — Executive Producer
• 2014Tammy — Pearl
• 2014The Calling — Hazel Micallef
• 2013Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation — Suze Rotolo (voice)
• 2013Irwin & Fran — Narrator
• Ray Donovan — Samantha Winslow
• Rick and Morty — Dr. Helen Wong (voice)
• 2013Snitch — Joanne Keeghan
• 2013The Big Wedding — Beatrice 'Bebe' McBride
• The Frame — Sarah Roberts
• 2013The Last of Robin Hood — Florence Aadland
• 2013Trailblazers in Habits — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Waiting for Mamu — Executive Producer
• 2012Arbitrage — Ellen Miller
• 2012Cloud Atlas — Madame Horrox / Older Ursula / Yusouf Suleiman / Abbess
• 2012Jeff, Who Lives at Home — Sharon Thompkins
• 2012Nothing Like Chocolate — Narrator (voice)
• 2012Robot & Frank — Jennifer
• 2012That's My Boy — Mary McGarricle (Present Day)
• 2012The Company You Keep — Sharon Solarz
• 2011A Question of Habit — Narrator
• 2011Fight for Your Right Revisited — Mother
• 2011Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World — Narrator (voice)
• Mike & Molly — J.C. Small
• 2010Peacock — Fanny Crill
• 2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — Sylvia Moore
• 2010You Don't Know Jack — Janet Good
• 2009Grizzly — Narrator (voice)
• 2009Leaves of Grass — Daisy Kincaid
• 2009Solitary Man — Nancy Kalmen
• 2009The Greatest — Grace Brewer
• 2009The Lovely Bones — Grandma Lynn
• 2008Emotional Arithmetic — Melanie Lansing Winters
• 2008Middle of Nowhere — Rhonda Berry
• 2008Pip's Predicament: A Pop-Up Adventure — Queen Narissa (voice)
• 2008Speed Racer — Mom
• 2008Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family — Mom Racer
• 2007Enchanted — Queen Narissa
• 2007In the Valley of Elah — Joan Deerfield
• 2007Mr. Woodcock — Beverly Farley
• The Dame Edna Treatment
• 30 Rock — Lynn Onkman
• 2006Bernard and Doris — Doris Duke
• 2006Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Irresistible — Sophie Hartley
• 2006Romance & Cigarettes — Kitty Kane
• 2006Secrets of the Code — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story — Narrator (voice)
• 2006The Exonerated — Sunny Jacobs
• 2006The Shape of Water — Narrator
• American Dad! — Mrs. Jasperterian (voice)
• 2005Elizabethtown — Hollie Baylor
• Hi-Jinks
• 2005Jiminy Glick in Lalawood — Susan Sarandon
• The Tyra Banks Show
• 2004Alfie — Liz
• 2004Noel — Rose Collins
• Rescue Me — Alicia Green
• 2004Shall We Dance? — Beverly Clark
• Chappelle's Show
• Frank Herbert's Children of Dune — Princess Wensicia Corrino
• 2003Ice Bound — Dr. Jerri Nielsen
• 2003The Nazi Officer's Wife — Narrator (voice)
• 2002Facing Arthur — Narrator (voice)
• 2002Igby Goes Down — Mimi
• 2002Moonlight Mile — Jojo Floss, Executive Producer
• 2002The Banger Sisters — Lavinia
• 2002The Next Industrial Revolution — Narrator (voice)
• 2001Cats & Dogs — Ivy (voice)
• 2001Ghosts of Attica — Narrator
• 2001Rudyland — Narrator (voice)
• 2001The Shaman's Apprentice — Narrator (voice)
• Frank Herbert's Dune
• 2000Joe Gould's Secret — Alice Neel
• Malcolm in the Middle — Meg
• 2000Rugrats in Paris: The Movie — Coco LaBouche (voice)
• 2000This Is What Democracy Looks Like — Narrator (voice)
• 1999Anywhere but Here — Adele August
• 1999Cradle Will Rock — Margherita Sarfatti
• 1999Earthly Possessions — Charlotte Emory
• 1999Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales — Narrator (voice)
• Independent Lens
• 1999Our Friend, Martin — Mrs. Clark (voice)
• 1999The Secret Life of Geisha — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Illuminata — Celimene
• 1998Stepmom — Jackie Harrison, Executive Producer
• 1998Twilight — Catherine Ames
• 1996Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins — Narrator (voice)
• 1996James and the Giant Peach — Miss Spider (voice)
• 1995Dead Man Walking — Sister Helen Prejean
• Friends — Jessica Lockhart
• 1994Little Women — Mrs. March
• 1994Safe Passage — Mag
• 1994School of Assassins — Narrator (voice)
• 1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! — Bitsy
• 1994The Client — Reggie Love
• 1992Bob Roberts — Tawna Titan
• 1992Light Sleeper — Ann
• 1992Lorenzo's Oil — Michaela Odone
• 1992The Player — Susan Sarandon
• 1991Rabbit Ears - The Firebird — Narrator (voice)
• 1991Thelma & Louise — Louise
• 1990White Palace — Nora Baker
• 1989A Dry White Season — Melanie Bruwer
• 1989The January Man — Christine Starkey
• The Simpsons — Susan Sarandon (voice), Ballet Teacher (voice)
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1988Bull Durham — Annie Savoy
• 1988Sweet Hearts Dance — Sandra "Sandy" Boon
• 1987The Witches of Eastwick — Jane Spofford
• 1986Women of Valor — Col. Margaret Ann Jessup
• A.D. — Livilla
• 1985Compromising Positions — Judith Singer
• Mussolini and I — Edda Mussolini Ciano
• 1984Beauty and the Beast — Beauty
• Oxbridge Blues — Natalie Carlsen
• 1984The Buddy System — Emily
• 1983The Hunger — Sarah Roberts
• American Playhouse — Helene Shaw
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Beauty
• 1982Tempest — Aretha Tomalin
• 1982Who Am I This Time? — Helene Shaw
• 1980Atlantic City — Sally
• 1980Loving Couples — Stephanie
• 1979Something Short of Paradise — Madeline Ross
• 1978King of the Gypsies — Rose
• 1978Pretty Baby — Hattie
• 1978The Great Smokey Roadblock — Ginny, Co-Producer
• 1977Checkered Flag or Crash — C.C. Wainwright
• 1977The Other Side of Midnight — Catherine Alexander Douglas
• 1976Dragonfly — Chloe
• Saturday Night Live — Self (uncredited), Mother #1 (uncredited), Mother (uncredited)
• 1975The Great Waldo Pepper — Mary Beth
• 1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show — Janet Weiss
• 1974F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles — Ailie Calhoun
• 1974June Moon — Eileen
• 1974Lovin' Molly — Sarah
• NOVA — Narrator (voice)
• 1974The Front Page — Peggy Grant
• 1974The Satan Murders — Kate
• Calucci's Department
• 1973The Haunting of Rosalind — Dita
• 1972The Rimers of Eldritch — Patsy Johnson
• Great Performances — Patsy Johnson, Eileen
• 1971Lady Liberty — Sally
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — Joyce
• 1971The Apprentice — Elizabeth Hawkins
• A World Apart — Patrice Kahlman
• 1970Joe — Melissa Compton
• Army of Shadows
• Bad Moms' Moms — Isis
• Behind the Labels — Narrator (voice)
• Butterfly in the Typewriter — Thelma Toole
• Dying to Be Thin — Narrator (voice)
• Exit Right — Jan Randall, Executive Producer
• Legacy — Warden Stroud
• Mythos
• Pitchfork
• Saving Jamaica Bay — Narrator
• Still of Night
• Tunnels
• Unmerciful Good Fortune — Dr. Irene Charles

Appearances as themselves (81)

• Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast — Self
• 2025Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror — Self
• 2025Thelma & Louise: Born to Live — Self
• 2025What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas — Self - Interviewee
• 2024Materia Viva — Self
• 2024Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Self
• 2024The Trust Fall: Julian Assange — Self - Narrator
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a — Self (uncredited)
• 2021Rocky Horror 45: The Movie — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The 90s Greatest — self
• Marcians — Self - Interviewee
• 2017Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs — Self
• Chelsea — Self
• 2015Artistry/Technology — Self
• 2015Enzian: When the Lights Go Up — Self (archive footage)
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014The Past Is a Grotesque Animal — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• 2014We Are Many — Self
• 201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief — Self
• 2012How to Make Money Selling Drugs — Self
• Hamish and Andy's Gap Year — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• 2009A War in Hollywood — Self - Actress
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009PoliWood — Self
• The Jay Leno Show — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Home — Self
• 2005The Peace! — Self
• The Reichen Show — Self - Guest
• 2004Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest (archive footage)
• Project Runway — Self - Guest Judge
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments — Self
• 2003Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen — Self / Jojo Floss
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2003The Education of Gore Vidal — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2003Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey — Self
• 2002Bull Durham: Between the Lines — Self
• Democracy Now! — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Last Party 2000 — Self
• 2001The Concert for New York City — Self
• 2000Broken Child — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2000Dirty Pictures — Self
• 2000Light Keeps Me Company — Self
• 1999Behind the Music: The Rocky Horror Picture Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self - Guest
• Where Are They Now? — Self
• 1998VH1: Divas Live — Self - Host
• The View — Self - Guest
• Clive Anderson All Talk — Self
• 1996The Celluloid Closet — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• MADtv — Self, Self - Special Guest
• 1995The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self, Self - Guest
• 1993Wilderness: The Last Stand — Self - Narrator (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• POV — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Fridays — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Presenter