Susan Sarandon is well-known for her 21-year romance with Oscar-winner Tim Robbins, however the “Stepmom” star was married to her school sweetheart lengthy earlier than she hit the massive time.
Means again in 1967, the budding actress — then aged 22 and named Susan Tomalin — married Chris Sarandon, whom she met on the Catholic College of America.
She took his final identify and used it for her first function movie “Joe,” which was launched three years after they tied the knot.
The couple separated in 1975, however Susan stayed utilizing her alliterative stage identify even after her divorce from Chris was finalized in 1979 — and he or she’s now revealed the explanation why.
“‘He was a very kind man and he kept me alive, you know, so I’m blissful to have that identify,’ Susan, now aged 78, advised The Instances this week.
Throughout their marriage, Chris and Susan had been each budding actors who labored odd jobs to remain afloat.
By the point of their break up in 1975, Susan scored a starring position in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and was nicely on her approach to changing into a family identify.
Regardless of their divorce and the many years which have passed by, Susan and Chris — who didn’t have any youngsters collectively — have remained on good phrases.
The “Dead Man Walking” actress even appeared stay on stage along with her ex-husband final 12 months to debate their romance.
“When I met Chris, I thought and correctly so, that he knew everything because he took me to black and white movies and introduced me to literature and basically saved my life actually with his kindness,” she advised the gang.
She turned to Chris and said: “I credit you with my foundation and my survival. One of the reasons I’m here is just to publicly say that.”
Susan has by no means re-married, however she’s had a number of high-profile romances.
After her separation from Chris within the mid-70s, the Oscar-winner dated French director Louis Malle and Italian director Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter, Eva.
She began relationship Tim Robbins in 1988, and the previous couple share two sons, Miles and Jack. They separated in 2009.
Chris, in the meantime, went on to marry mannequin Lisa Cooper in 1980. The couple had three youngsters, Stephanie, Alexis and Michael, earlier than divorcing in 1989.
He married actress Joanna Gleason in 1994, and the pair are nonetheless collectively in the present day.
