Susan Sarandon brings her own brand of sex appeal and intelligence to every role – from her fearless portrayal in Bull Durham and her Oscar® -nominated performances in Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Client and Atlantic City to her Academy Award® -winning and SAG Award-winning role as Sister Helen, a nun consoling a death-row inmate, in Dead Man Walking.

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.

More recently, she was seen in Brad Silberling’s Moonlight Mile, with Dustin Hoffman, in the comedy Igby Goes Down, with Jeff Goldblum and in The Banger Sisters, with Goldie Hawn and Geoffrey Rush. She also starred in Ice Bound for CBS and played a supporting part in Children of Dune for the Sci-Fi Channel.

Sarandon’s additional feature credits include Twilight, opposite Paul Newman and Gene Hackman; the poignant comedy Stepmom, with Julia Roberts; the erotic farce Illuminata, directed by John Turturro; Tim Robbins’ drama The Cradle Will Rock; Wayne Wang’s Anywhere But Here; Stanley Tucci’s Joe Gould’s Secret; and HBO’s Earthly Possessions, based on the Anne Tyler novel and directed by James Lapine.

In addition, Sarandon provided her voice for the hit animated feature Rugrats in Paris, James and the Giant Peach and Cats & Dogs, and she served as narrator for Laleh Khadivi’s documentary 900 Women, about female prison inmates.

On Broadway, Sarandon appeared in An Evening With Richard Nixon, and received critical acclaim for her Off-Broadway performances in A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talkin’ and the thriller Extremities. Off-Off-Broadway, she starred in The Guys, 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.

Just prior to Alfie, Sarandon starred in Shall We Dance?, with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, and in Noel, with Robin Williams, Paul Walker and Penelope Cruz. She recently completed principal photography on The Exonerated, and is currently filming Elizabethtown, directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.