Award to Susan Sarandon

The extremely versatile Susan Sarandon brings her own brand of sex appeal and intelligence to every role – from her fearless portrayal of Annie Savoy in “Bull Durham” to her Oscar®-nominated performances in “Thelma & 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” in 1970, which she followed with a continuing role in the TV drama “A World Apart”. Early film credits include “The Great Waldo Pepper”, “Lovin’ Molly”, Billy Wilder’s “The Front Page”, the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and Louis Malle’s “Pretty Baby”. She went on to receive her first Oscar nomination in Malle’s “Atlantic City”. Additional film credits include “The Hunger”, “The Witches of Eastwick”, “A Dry White Season”, “White Palace”, “Light Sleeper”, “Bob Roberts”, “Little Women”, “Stepmom”, “Cradle Will Rock”, “Igby Goes Down”, “The Banger Sisters”, “Moonlight Mile”, “Shall We Dance?”, “Alfie”, “Elizabethtown”, “Romance & Cigarettes”, “Enchanted”, “The Lovely Bones”, “Jeff Who Lives at Home”, “Robot & Frank”, “Arbitrage”, “Tammy”, “The Meddler”, “Blackbird”, and “The Jesus Rolls”. The hard-working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects in film as well as television, having received an Emmy® and Golden Globe® Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Bette Davis in Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Bette & Joan” opposite Jessica Lange in 2017. In 2008, she received an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries for her role in the HBO film “Bernard and Doris”, as well as a Golden Globe and SAG nomination. She also received an Emmy and SAG nomination for her work in Barry Levinson’s “You Don’t Know Jack” with Al Pacino for HBO. Sarandon has made guest appearances on “Friends”, “Malcolm in the Middle”, “ER”, “30 Rock”, “The Big C”, “Doll & Em”, “Mike & Molly”, “Search Party” and in the “Mother Lover” video on Saturday Night Live. As well as lent her voice to numerous animation projects including “The Simpsons”, “James and the Giant Peach”, “Rugrats in Paris: The Movie”, “April and the Extraordinary World”, “Hell and Back”, “Spark: A Space Tail”, “Skylanders Academy”, and “Rick and Morty”. Most recently Sarandon plays Dottie Cantrell Roman in FOX’s musical drama “Monarch” and Victoria Kord in DC Film’s “Blue Beetle”.