"the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in ""bringing help to suffering humanity"". Much admired by Pope John Paul II, she was beatified in 2003, just six years after her death. Many Christian women and religious have been prominent advocates in social policy debates—as with American nun Helen Prejean, a Sister of Saint Joseph of Medaille, who is a prominent campaigner against the Death Penalty and was the inspiration for the Hollywood film ""Dead Man Walking"". Linda Woodhead states that, ""Of the many threats that Christianity has to face in modern times, gender equality is one of the"
"Susan Sarandon Susan Abigail Tomalin, better known as Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist. She has received an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. She is known for her social and political activism for a variety of causes. She was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006. Sarandon began her career in the 1970 film ""Joe"", before appearing in the soap opera ""A"
"has never been more incredibly lush, and she does some inspired double takes - just letting her beautiful dark eyes pop."" ""It's fun to have a movie about a woman whose curiosity is her salvation."" Compromising Positions Compromising Positions is a 1985 American film released by Paramount and directed by Frank Perry. The screenplay, by Susan Isaacs, was adapted from her 1978 novel. The plot concerns a Long Island housewife and former journalist who becomes involved in a murder investigation. The film stars Susan Sarandon, Raúl Juliá, Judith Ivey, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt, Joe Mantegna, Deborah Rush, Anne De"
"special hospital is located to take Ricky; after his recovery, they will be moved elsewhere. As soon as the family fly off in an FBI plane, Reggie reveals the location of the body to the FBI. A 1994 film based on the novel was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker and newcomer Brad Renfro. The film was released on July 20, 1994. For her work in the film, Susan Sarandon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film"
"Safe Passage (film) Safe Passage is a 1994 American drama film starring Susan Sarandon, and featuring Nick Stahl, Sam Shepard, Sean Astin and Jason London. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman from a screenplay by Deena Goldstone, it is based on the novel ""Safe Passage"" by Ellyn Bache. Maggie Singer (Susan Sarandon) is an obsessive, superstitious and moderately psychic woman who has premonitions in her dreams. The mother of seven children, only one of which still lives at home, she is getting divorced from her husband, and plans to move into the city and take a job as a civil servant."
"said the movie version would endeavor to make it appear ""somehow ethereal and emotional, but it can't be hokey"". The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon, Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon, Stanley Tucci as George Harvey, Rachel Weisz as Abigail Salmon, Susan Sarandon as Susie's Grandmother Lynn, and Rose McIver as Lindsey Salmon. The film opened to a limited release in three U.S. theaters on December 11, 2009, and received international and wide release on January 15, 2010. It met with mixed reviews, but nonetheless garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Tucci). A stage adaptation of"
"Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole is a 2003 CBS television movie starring Susan Sarandon as Dr. Jerri Nielsen in the true story of the cancer-stricken physician stranded at a South Pole research station who, under dangerous circumstances, and with the help of co-workers, treats her own illness. Based on the New York Times best-selling book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, the movie tells the story of how, in 1999, 46-year-old physician Nielsen decides to leave Ohio and spend a year"
"playing Patrice Kahlman and Sarah Fairbanks, respectively. In 1975, she appeared in ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"". That same year, she also played the female lead in ""The Great Waldo Pepper"", opposite Robert Redford. She was twice directed by Louis Malle, in ""Pretty Baby"" (1978) and ""Atlantic City"" (1981). The latter earned Sarandon her first Academy Award nomination. Her most controversial film appearance was in Tony Scott's ""The Hunger"" (1983), a modern vampire story in which she had a lesbian sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. She appeared in the comedy-fantasy ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1987) alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher, and"
"in """" (1962). She went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" She also won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for ""Images"". Her other film appearances included ""Sands of the Kalahari"" (1965), ""The Killing of Sister George"" (1968), ""Battle of Britain"" (1969), ""Jane Eyre"" (1970), ""Zee and Co."" (1972), ""Gold"" (1974), ""The Maids"" (1975), ""Conduct Unbecoming"" (1975), ""Eliza Fraser"" (1976), ""The Shout"" (1978), ""The Silent Partner"" (1978), and ""Superman"" (1978). She was appointed"
"Nelson and numerous buddies in the television Western ""Once Upon a Texas Train"" (1988). She was presented one of the Golden Boot Awards in 1989 for her contributions to Western cinema. In the ABC miniseries ""Wild Palms"" (1993), produced by Oliver Stone, she was the sadistic, militant sister of Senator Tony Kruetzer, played by Robert Loggia. That same year, she starred as a ruthless Montana spa owner in Gus Van Sant's ""Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"" with Uma Thurman. In 1995, Sydney Pollack cast her as the prospective mother-in-law of Greg Kinnear in the romantic comedy ""Sabrina"" starring Harrison Ford,"
"alongside Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci in Peter Jackson's supernatural drama ""The Lovely Bones"", an adaptation of the book of the same name by Alice Sebold. Ronan played 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who, after being raped and murdered, watches from the after-life as her family struggles to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her quest for vengeance. Ronan and her family were originally hesitant for Ronan to accept the role due to its subject matter, but agreed after Jackson assured them that the film would not feature gratuitous scenes of rape and"
"from her first name. While working as a waitress at the Spaghetti Factory restaurant in Glasgow, she was spotted by film director Bill Forsyth. This led to her breakthrough acting role in 1981's ""Gregory's Girl"" as Susan. Because of her facial wound, there were objections from the producers, but Forsyth refused to recast the role and Grogan was filmed mostly in profile. When filmed in close up, makeup artists covered Grogan's scar with mortician's wax. In 1984, she played Charlotte in Forsyth's ""Comfort and Joy"". In 1985, she was the receptionist in the BBC Television version of ""Blott on the"
"Passion of Judith Hearne"" (1988), a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for ""Tea With Mussolini"" (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. A six-time Oscar nominee, her other nominations were for ""Othello"" (1965), ""Travels with My Aunt"" (1972), ""A Room with a View"" (1986), and ""Gosford Park"" (2001). Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the ""Harry Potter"" film series (2001–2011). Other notable films include ""Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing"" (1973), ""Death on the Nile"" (1978), ""Clash of the Titans"" (1981), ""Evil Under the Sun"" (1982), ""Hook"" (1991), ""Sister Act"" (1992), ""The Secret Garden"" (1993), ""The Best Exotic Marigold"
"Compromising Positions Compromising Positions is a 1985 American film released by Paramount and directed by Frank Perry. The screenplay, by Susan Isaacs, was adapted from her 1978 novel. The plot concerns a Long Island housewife and former journalist who becomes involved in a murder investigation. The film stars Susan Sarandon, Raúl Juliá, Judith Ivey, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt, Joe Mantegna, Deborah Rush, Anne De Salvo, and Josh Mostel. Joan Allen has a small role. Judith Singer is a former Newsday reporter who misses her old life, now that her husband Bob spends most of his time at work and"
"Helen (film) Helen is a 2009 American drama film starring Ashley Judd and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. It follows a professor (Judd) who overcomes severe depression after a massive breakdown, with the help of new friend Matilda (Smith). Filming took place late 2007 in Vancouver. The film was released at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009, and later at the Atlantic Film Festival in Canada. Lauren Lee Smith won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2010 Leo Awards, beating co-star Alexia Fast. It was nominated for Best Feature and Production Design. ""Helen"" was released to DVD in"
"Susan Seidelman Susan Seidelman (born December 11, 1952) is an American film director, producer and writer. She came to prominence in the 1980s with ""Smithereens"", the first American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Her next feature ""Desperately Seeking Susan"" co-starred Madonna in her first film. ""She-Devil"" starred Roseanne Barr in her first feature-film role, and Meryl Streep in her first starring comedic film role. Seidelman's subsequent films mix comedy with drama, blending genres and pop-cultural references with a focus on women protagonists, particularly outsiders. She also works in television and directed the pilot"
"six-time Emmy Award nominee, including for her guest roles on the sitcoms ""Friends"" (2001) and ""Malcolm in the Middle"" (2002), and appearances in the TV films ""Bernard and Doris"" (2007) and ""You Don't Know Jack"" (2010). In 2017, Sarandon portrayed Bette Davis in the first season of FX's anthology series ""Feud"", for which she was nominated for both for acting and producing Emmys. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for executive producing ""Cool Women in History"" in 2002. Sarandon was born in the Queens borough of New York City. She is the eldest of nine children of"
"earnest and honest, perhaps much like Marnie. The character is eager to help and be involved, and the film carries much of that same spirit: it will try to please you with one thing, but if that doesn’t work, it has another way to make you smile just around the corner. And just like Marnie, it’s hard to resist."" Richard Lawson of ""Vanity Fair"" later named it the best film of 2016. The Meddler The Meddler is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Lorene Scafaria. The film stars Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and J. K. Simmons. Principal"
"Susan Kellermann Susan Kellermann (born July 4, 1944) is an American actress. Kellermann graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College with an Bachelors Degrees in English Literature. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Sanford Meisner. She made her television debut in episodes of ""Starsky and Hutch"" (1975) and ""Laverne & Shirley"" (1976). She went on to appear in many films, including ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), ""Elvira, Mistress of the Dark"" (1988), ""Last Holiday"" (2006), and ""Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl"" (2016). She also appeared in three episodes of ""Taxi"" as Greta Gravas, mother of the character Latka. She made"
"Happen"" (1974), directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese. Her novel ""For the Love of Angel"", published in 2008 by Truran Books, is set in Cornwall in the 1880s. Susan Penhaligon Susan Penhaligon (born 3 July 1949) is a British actress and writer. She is known for her role in the drama series ""Bouquet of Barbed Wire"" (1976), and for playing Helen Barker in the sitcom ""A Fine Romance"" (1981–84). She also appeared in the soap opera ""Emmerdale"" (2006). Her film appearances include ""No Sex Please, We're British"" (1973) and Paul Verhoeven's ""Soldier of Orange"" (1977). Penhaligon was born in Manila but"
"drama ""Brothers & Sisters"", for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007. In 2010s, her film career saw a resurgence. She starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in ""Lincoln"" (2012), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and portrayed Aunt May in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" (2012) and its 2014 sequel, with the former becoming her highest grossing release. In 2015, she portrayed the titular character in ""Hello, My Name Is Doris"", for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best"
"The Calling (2014 film) The Calling is a 2014 Canadian crime thriller film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Michael Redhill (published under the pen name Inger Ash Wolfe). The film stars Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace, Donald Sutherland, and Christopher Heyerdahl. Inspector Hazel Micallef (Susan Sarandon) is a police officer in the small Ontario town of Fort Dundas. She is called to check in on elderly Delia Chandler and finds the woman nearly decapitated in her living room. Chandler's mouth is twisted as if she is screaming. The police encounter another gruesome"
"of her life."" Liz Sheridan Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (born April 10, 1929) is an American actress. Sheridan was born in Rye, New York, the daughter of concert singer Elizabeth Poole-Jones and classical pianist Frank Sheridan. Sheridan may be best known for her recurring role as Jerry Seinfeld's mother, Helen, in ""Seinfeld"". She played the role for all nine seasons, from 1990 to 1998. She starred in the 1976 Broadway play ""Best Friend"" before moving on to regular supporting roles in films and television series such as ""Moonlighting"", ""Kojak"", ""The A-Team"", ""Murder, She Wrote"", and ""Cagney & Lacey"". Her first major"
"received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Stockholm International Film Festival, was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010, and received the Outstanding Artistic Life Award for her Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2013, she was invited to inaugurate the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. In 2015, Sarandon received the Goldene Kamera international lifetime achievement award. Susan Sarandon Susan Abigail Tomalin, better known as Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist. She has received an Academy Award, a British"
"Smithereens (film) Smithereens is a 1982 American drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rijn (billed as ""Brad Rinn""), and punk rock icon Richard Hell. The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the punk subculture, only to find that it's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in order to pay her way across country, she engages in a number of parasitic relationships, shifting her allegiances to new ""friends"" in an ongoing effort to ultimately endear herself to someone who will finance her desired lifestyle. ""Smithereens"" marked the"
"August 2010. It currently holds a score of 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews. Helen (film) Helen is a 2009 American drama film starring Ashley Judd and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. It follows a professor (Judd) who overcomes severe depression after a massive breakdown, with the help of new friend Matilda (Smith). Filming took place late 2007 in Vancouver. The film was released at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009, and later at the Atlantic Film Festival in Canada. Lauren Lee Smith won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2010 Leo Awards, beating co-star Alexia"
"The Meddler The Meddler is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Lorene Scafaria. The film stars Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and J. K. Simmons. Principal photography began on March 30, 2015 in Los Angeles. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released on April 22, 2016, by Sony Pictures Classics. An aging widow, Marnie (Susan Sarandon) is lonely and heartbroken. When her daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne), moves to Los Angeles, she follows along with the hope of restarting her life. She begins interfering with Lori's life,"
"sensibility onscreen by examining issues of identity, desire and self-fulfillment from a distinctly female perspective."" Smithereens (film) Smithereens is a 1982 American drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rijn (billed as ""Brad Rinn""), and punk rock icon Richard Hell. The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the punk subculture, only to find that it's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in order to pay her way across country, she engages in a number of parasitic relationships, shifting her allegiances to new ""friends"" in an ongoing effort"
"Liz Sheridan Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (born April 10, 1929) is an American actress. Sheridan was born in Rye, New York, the daughter of concert singer Elizabeth Poole-Jones and classical pianist Frank Sheridan. Sheridan may be best known for her recurring role as Jerry Seinfeld's mother, Helen, in ""Seinfeld"". She played the role for all nine seasons, from 1990 to 1998. She starred in the 1976 Broadway play ""Best Friend"" before moving on to regular supporting roles in films and television series such as ""Moonlighting"", ""Kojak"", ""The A-Team"", ""Murder, She Wrote"", and ""Cagney & Lacey"". Her first major role was playing"
"Prebble for Celador Films and BBC4. Whit Stillman's adaptation of ""Lady Susan"", retitled ""Love & Friendship"" after Austen's juvenile work of that name, was included in the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016. The US release date was May 13, 2016. The film stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Xavier Samuel and Stephen Fry. It received strongly positive reviews. A stage adaptation by Bonnie Milne Gardner, PhD, the George and Louise Peters University Professor of the Dept. of Theatre & Dance at Ohio Wesleyan University, was performed at OWU during their theatre department's 1998–1999 season. The script is for five women"
"Hills Cop III"" (1994), ""Black Sheep"" (1996) and ""Air Force One"" (1997). In 1991, he once again had a small but important role in another Academy Award-winning hit film, ""Thelma & Louise"", playing Harlan Puckett, a drunk man who is shot dead by Louise Sawyer (played by Susan Sarandon) as he attempts to rape her friend Thelma Dickinson (played by Geena Davis) which kicks off the main plot. Carhart and Dan Shor played a pair of deputies in the 1992 thriller ""Red Rock West"". Carhart also co-starred in the 1995 cult horror film """". Carhart's most recent film was the"
"and Davis is played by Susan Sarandon. As of 2018 any streaming/airing of this series is currently stopped by restraint order from lower California courts until Olivia de Havilland can be heard by the United States Supreme Court on whether producers had the right to use her likeness without permission although she is a public figure. She is played by Catherine Zeta-Jones. Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud is an American biography by Shaun Considine first published in 1989 and re-released in 2017 by Graymalkin Media in paperback and as an e-book. The biography"
"New Zealand for graphic violence. The Calling (2014 film) The Calling is a 2014 Canadian crime thriller film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Michael Redhill (published under the pen name Inger Ash Wolfe). The film stars Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace, Donald Sutherland, and Christopher Heyerdahl. Inspector Hazel Micallef (Susan Sarandon) is a police officer in the small Ontario town of Fort Dundas. She is called to check in on elderly Delia Chandler and finds the woman nearly decapitated in her living room. Chandler's mouth is twisted as if she is screaming."