Susan Sarandon is putting women in the frame in Hollywood

Through her acting and production work, Susan Sarandon is happy to help challenge the Hollywood patriarchy, writes Helen Barlow

Susan Sarandon is putting women in the frame in Hollywood

WHEN Susan Sarandon glided up the Cannes red carpet recently in a low-cut tuxedo-style dress, it was hard to believe that the Oscar-winning actress turns 70 in October. Certainly, she hasn’t lost any of her pizzazz.

Interestingly, the sometimes outrageous, out-spoken New Yorker won her best actress Oscar (after five nominations) for her portrayal as a real-life nun in 1995’s Dead Man Walking, a film she and her then partner, the film’s writer-director, Tim Robbins, struggled to make.

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