Personal Life
In 1964, Sarandon (then a college student named Susan Tomalin) began dating actor Chris Sarandon. The couple married on September 16, 1967. In 1978, following their separation, Sarandon stated "I no longer believe in marriage" in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine. Their divorce was finalized in 1979 and she retained Sarandon as her stage name.
Following her marital separation, Sarandon had a two-year relationship with director Louis Malle, who directed her in Pretty Baby and Atlantic City.
In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri. She gave birth to their daughter, actress Eva Amurri, on March 15, 1985.
From 1988 to 2009, Sarandon was in a relationship with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while they were filming Bull Durham. They have two sons — Jack Henry (born 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born 1992).
In 2006, Sarandon and ten of her relatives (including her then-partner Tim Robbins and her son Miles) travelled to Wales to trace her family's Welsh genealogy. Their journey was documented by the BBC Wales programme, Coming Home: Susan Sarandon. Much of the same research and content was also featured in the American version of Who Do You Think You Are?. In 2006, she also received the "Ragusani nel mondo" prize, since her Sicilian roots are in Ragusa, Italy.
Sarandon is the co-owner of New York table tennis club SPiN, and its Toronto branch SPiN Toronto.
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