Susan Sarandon as "Sister Helen Prejean" in DEAD MAN WALKING (Gramercy) Susan Sarandon stars as Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun caught in a dramatic, moral crisis when she becomes involved with a condemned man in DEAD MAN WALKING. She has earned her three Best Actress Academy Award nominations for 1991's Thelma and Louise, 1992's Lorenzo's Oil, and in 1994's The Client for which she also received a British Academy Award for Best Actress. Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, she was the daughter of a big-band singer who became a television producer and advertising executive; her mother raised nine children. Sarandon attended Catholic University, earned her degree in drama, and in 1970 made her debut in the movie, Joe. Early film credits include the late-night cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which she sang. In 1978, Sarandon played Brooke Shields' mother in Louis Malle's controversial Pretty Baby and later was nominated for her first Oscar as Best Actress for her work in another Malle film, Atlantic City. Other numerous film credits include King of the Gypsies, The Hunger, A Dry White Season, The Witches of Eastwick, and Bull Durham in which she met her current companion and father of her two sons, Tim Robbins.

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