Susan Sarandon

Personal context

Summary

Susan Sarandon is an actor and producer known for films including The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Thelma & Louise, and Dead Man Walking. Her work spans unconventional characters and stories about women, outsiders, and moral conflict. Her public record includes decades of anti-war and civil-rights activism, advocacy for reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights, opposition to capital punishment, and service as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders, later endorsed Jill Stein, and was arrested at a 2018 protest against the Trump administration’s family-separation policy.