Chevy Chase is a comedy legend. He’s an original cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL), and starred in many 1980’s classics. However, he’s famously antagonistic, angering a long list of co-stars throughout his fifty-year career.

Chevy is currently banned from SNL for his conduct when he guest-hosted in 1997. That week, he slapped cast member Cheri Oteri on the back of the head, saying it was a joke. Chase was ousted, and is the only former cast member to ever be banned.

During Chevy’s time at SNL, he was in his second serious relationship, which was with Jacqueline Carlin, a model and aspiring actress based in Los Angeles (his first marriage ended in divorce after an unremarkable three years). They married on December 4, 1976, but the marriage quickly fell apart as Chevy started to get into substance abuse. Chase was mentally all over the place because of the prodigious level of substance consumption. The divorce also included Carlin suing Chevy because of his alleged threats of violence against her.

Chevy was not popular among his SNL co-stars, because he was not only insensitive when it came to the writers’ room, but he was also openly insulting to anyone and everyone in his path. According to the book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, Chevy was a, “a viciously effective put-down artist, the sort who could find the one thing somebody was sensitive about — a pimple on the nose, perhaps — and then kid about it, mercilessly.”

Although Chevy was officially a writer on SNL, he also performed. Also, Chevy famously opened every show by saying, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” Memorably, he mocked President Gerald Ford for falling down the stairs of Air Force One by doing an impersonation of him acting extremely clumsily, including re-creating a tumble. Chevy’s physical comedy and signature pratfalls were lauded at the time, but had dark consequences. His back eventually started to ache, and he developed a dependence on prescription painkillers because of them.

Only after one and a half seasons, Chevy grew tired of being on SNL and decided to leave. He allegedly missed a couple episodes of the second season because of an injury, but people believe this was a lie that was simply a way for the executives to test how the show did without him. Instead of being on SNL, Chevy chose to host some NBC primetime specials. Chase claims that he left because of personal issues with his girlfriend, but he once admitted he did it for, “Money. Lots of money.”

At the time Chevy was on SNL, he was best friends with the big boss, Lorne Michaels. They even shared the same manager, Bernie Brillstein. However, when Chase decided to chase money and movie roles instead of continuing on SNL, he betrayed both Lorne and Bernie. He dropped Bernie and signed with William Morris. This was not just a business move- it was done in a vindictive way. A former writer said that “Chevy was a scumbag the way he left.”

When Chase returned to host SNL, he returned to the Weekend Update desk, where he’d made his mark as a cast member with his trademark lines, “I’m Chevy Chase … and you’re not!” and his sign-off, “good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.” However, the new Update anchor Jane Curtin, according to Chevy, did not want him on the segment. She admitted that he was, “expecting [a reaction] that he wasn’t getting from me.” Curtin more recently unveiled the blatant sexism of many SNL cast members.

For some reason, Chase was invited to host SNL once again in 1985. There he made fun of 20-year-old new cast member Robert Downey Jr. Chevy asked Robert, “didn’t your father used to be a successful director? Whatever happened to him? Boy, he sure died, you know, he sure went to hell.” Chevy also made insensitive jokes directed towards Terry Sweeney, to the point where he was begrudgingly forced to apologize. Sweeney said Chase was, “really furious that he had to apologize to me.”

Chevy is one of the blue-blooded American elite who is listed in the exclusive Social Register. His ancestors were New Yorkers back in 1624, but go back all the way to the Mayflower. In his bloodline was former NYC mayor Stephanus Van Cortlandt, and members of the prominent Schuyler family. Chase’s parents divorced, and his father re-married into the Folger’s Coffee family. Still, despite a comfortable upbringing, Chevy worked as a cab driver, construction worker, waiter, salesman, and usher before committing to comedy.

Fox wanted to hire someone to host a talk show, to replace the gap that was just made by the departure of Johnny Carson from TV, so they hired Chevy in 1993. The Chevy Chase Show had huge expectations. Executives projected to outcompete David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. The network also spent $1 million renovating the theatre where they filmed the show, and even renamed it after Chevy! After five weeks, however, the show was canceled. Time said, “Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing.”

As a writer on season one of SNL, Chevy Chase disrespected the long-held notion that writer’s rooms are generally safe spaces for brainstorming. It is a place where people need to feel free and open to discuss ideas that are sometimes vulnerable. Instead of accepting peoples’ ideas, whether they were good or bad, Chevy would viciously attack other writers’ ideas in a mocking, sarcastic way saying, “gee, I don’t think that’s very good at all.” And that was him being nice.

Despite the immense failure of his talk show and three of his early 90’s movies, Chevy still remained acerbically critical when it came to others’ work- even when he admittedly didn’t really know what he was talking about. Stephen Bocho, who developed Doogie Howser, M.D. and NYPD Blue had the unfortunate luck to appear on a talk show with Chevy. Chase called Bocho’s work, “useless and worthless,” and turned the offenses to host Bill Maher when he tried to steer the conversation back to the script.

Chevy was commercially successful as Fletch, an investigative reporter and master of disguise in Fletch and the sequel Fletch Lives. A prequel has been in development for 20 years now, and the cult audience is waiting patiently. At one point, indie director Kevin Smith met with Chevy about developing the movie together. The meeting was abysmal. Kevin claims Chase, “claimed he invented every funny thing that ever happened in the history of not just comedy, but also the known world.” Unsurprisingly, Smith did not end up making the movie.

At the legendary improv theatre UCB, Chevy Chase came by to greet all the up and coming comedians, including Rob Huebel. Rob’s entrance into showbiz was inspired by Chevy Chase; Rob says he was “the biggest Chevy Chase fan in the world. [He] knew every word to Fletch and Caddyshack. [He] wanted to be Chevy Chase.” Rob giddily introduced himself, and, Chevy “just slapped me across the face. He didn’t say anything; he just looked at me for a second and belted me. It was really hard—­offensively hard.”

One of the biggest honors in comedy is to be the subject of a roast, where celebrities come and make fun of the foibles of your life and career. Usually, it is an honor to be roasted, as you can only really be made fun of by those who are trusted friends, who know not to cross the line. However, many came to the roast with revenge on their minds; the jokes were savage and “relentless.” Even sadder, however, was how few from the SNL cast showed up.

Modern Problems was a 1981 film with Chevy Chase starring as the main character, an air traffic controller who gets a telekinetic ability. The movie was successful: it made $26 million on a budget of $8 million. However, this movie was probably one of the worst experiences Chevy ever had making a movie, as he nearly died during filming. During one dream sequence, he is dressed as a human airplane. The lights he was adorned with malfunctioned, and he was electrocuted and lost consciousness.

Paul Simon is not only known for his iconic work as part of Simon And Garfunkle but also as a solo artist. One of his biggest hits, “You Can Call Me Al” was released in 1986, and reached top five status in seven countries. Originally, the music video was of Paul performing on the set of Saturday Night Live. However, he was unsatisfied with this. So Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, and director Gary Weis decided on a quirky alternative: Paul sang while Chevy Chase sat nearby, lip-syncing along.

In 2009, Dan Harmon put together a successful sitcom called Community, and cast Chevy Chase in it. Chase had not been prominently featured in films or TV for years, even relegating himself to playing as a regular character on a Swedish sitcom called Hjälp! Even still, Chevy was seemingly ungrateful, as he complained about the long hours of filming constantly. Chevy’s constant complaining eventually started to annoy Dan Harmon, and they got into a spat that erupted at the third season wrap party.

At the third season wrap party, the Harmon did something that he later said was him acting like a, “selfish baby.” Due to all the in-fighting, Harmon was frustrated and ended up giving a speech in which he verbally abused Chevy, shouting expletives at him, and even coaxing the rest of the cast and crew to join in a chant, cursing out Chevy. Chase was furious, as he was humiliated while with his wife and daughter. He fired back in a much-talked-about way.

After being cursed at by Harmon, Chevy stormed out of the wrap party. He decided to fire back via a voicemail message. In the message that is less than a minute long, he somehow makes it so loaded with profanity, it is mind-boggling. Chevy insults the poor health of Harmon, saying he would be lucky to live past 57, with his eating habits and alcohol consumption. Chase also touches on Harmon’s craft, saying that his “writing is getting worse and worse.”

Things were already awkward on the set of Community when this incident occurred in 2012. Chase was doing lines as his character, Pierce Hawthorne, and, as he struggled with some of the lines, he said a racial slur, which was presumably offensive to his African American co-stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Donald Glover. Although the slur was not directed towards anyone, Chase gathered the cast and crew to apologize. In an unexpected twist, Dan Harmon ended up getting booted from the show, and Chase stayed on the show.

Chevy rubbed some of the women of Community the wrong way when he made certain jokes that the ladies euphemistically explained away as, “from a different time,” or due to a “generational gap in terms of comedy.” Co-star Dino Stamatopoulos said that Chase, “has a reputation [for being insensitive]… [and] that reputation is earned.” Although Dino says he does not have any real problem with Chase, Dino says it’s only because he doesn’t work with Chevy on a daily basis.

Chevy Chase has been in rehab twice. Once in 1986, where he was treated for his reliance on prescription painkillers. His back hurt after doing so much physical comedy as a younger man, that he needed the pills. However, he went overboard with it and had to check into the Betty Ford Clinic. In 2016, he arrived at the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center in Minnesota for an alcohol-related issue. A representative for Chevy said that he was simply looking for a “tune-up.”

Chevy attended Bard College, where he originally declared pre-medical studies as his major. Studying that and entering medical school afterward would disqualify him from entering the draft for the Vietnam War. However, instead of going through with that, he switched majors to English. To avoid the draft, Chevy made up many things about himself to try and get a 4-F classification: “not qualified for… physical, mental, or moral standards.” Chase said that he was a homosexual, and the draft board made him 4-F.

Along with his acting, writing, and comedic skills, Chevy is a musician. His mother was a concert pianist, and probably got him into music. Chase also has the genetic gift of perfect pitch. In college, Chevy played drums, and formed a band with school friends Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Although Chase called their band, The Leather Canary, a “bad jazz band.” However, he must have been wrong, as Walter and Donald went on to form a little band called Steely Dan.

Chevy Chase is an outspoken Democrat, and has something to say to multiple presidents. After all, his famous Gerald Ford impression probably makes him feel like he should be giving presidential advice. Chase called President Bush an “uneducated, real lying schmuck.” Chase told Bill Clinton to, “take a deep breath, [to] look like he’s thinking before he answers questions. The whole trick is to behave presidentially.” Surely Clinton did not mind, as Chase raised a lot of money for him in the 1990s.

Chevy was on Larry King’s show at one point, and decided to use the commercial breaks to talk smack about Howard Stern. Word got out to Howard, and he somehow got the recording of the trash talk. Stern, always the showman, played the clip on his radio show before calling Chase to confront him. Chevy told him to never call him again. They made up eventually, and Stern even had Chase at his wedding, where Chevy gave an ad-libbed speech which Stern’s wife described as, “fun.”

Lorne and the folks at SNL never seemed to learn their lesson, as they had Chevy on as a host again in 1997. Tim Meadows, ten-year SNL veteran, said that watching Chevy deal with cast members and writers was like, “watching a car accident over and over again.” This hosting stint, Chevy’s most egregious sin came when he harassed a female writer. Will Ferrell did not understand why Chevy was so, “snobbish” and terrible, guessing that Chase perhaps, “took too many back pills that day or something.”

Bill Murray started on SNL to fill Chevy’s shoes. When Chevy came back to guest host in the third season of the show, tensions were high between the two. This was somewhat expected, as Murray was, “the new guy, and it was … my job to [confront Chevy]. At one point, Murray dissed Chase, who shot back by comparing Murray’s pockmarked face to craters on the moon. They then famously exchanged fisticuffs. Even during the fight, Murray mocked Chase yelling how he was a “medium talent.”

Chevy angered everyone, including legendary late-night host Johnny Carson. Chase poked and prodded Carson to the point where Johnny snapped and said that Chase “couldn’t ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.” Chevy did not respect what Carson did professionally, which was revealed in a New York magazine interview when Chase was asked if he would ever consider being a late night host. Chase derisively said that he, “never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.” Ironically, this changed in 1993.

Susan Sarandon has been a staple among the Hollywood elite for over four decades. The award-winner is known as much for her off-screen work as she is for her film career. Recently, she opened up about her career.

Now 73 years old, actress Susan Sarandon has been making waves in the entertainment industry since she first entered it in 1970. Back in 1969, Sarandon went to a casting call — with her then-husband Chris Sarandon — for a motion picture called Joe. While Chris ultimately didn’t get a part, the bombshell landed a major role as a disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld. Not long after that, Sarandon began appearing in various soap operas including A World Apart and Search for Tomorrow.

As if she hadn’t already made a name for herself throughout the early 1970s, Sarandon certainly did so when she starred as Janet Weiss in the 1975 musical comedy horror film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. That same year, the powerhouse also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. The film — an adventure-drama — follows a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly in combat, and examines his sense of dislocation in 1920s America.

A few years after starring alongside Robert Redford, Susan landed a role in the 1978 historical drama Pretty Baby, which was directed by Louis Malle. Still, this isn’t the last time that Sarandon would star in a Malle-directed movie. In fact, she even earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 1980 romantic-crime film Atlantic City. From then on, the acting work just kept rolling in for Sarandon, appearing in films including The Hunger and The Witches of Eastwick — which had a star-studded cast such as Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Although Sarandon had become a well-known actress throughout the mid to late-’80s, the actress didn’t really become a household name until she appeared alongside Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in the 1988 romantic comedy sports film Bull Durham. A commercial and critical success, the Ron Shelton-directed — and written — movie was loosely based on his own life experiences in which he played for a minor-league baseball team in Durham, North Carolina. Before she knew it, Sarandon had become an absolute sensation.

Once the ’90s came around, Sarandon had become an absolute worldwide sensation. It was during this decade that the actress was nominated for an Academy Award four different times. She finally brought home the award in 1995 for the crime drama film Dead Man Walking in which she played Sister Helen Prejean. The movie, which starred Sarandon and actor Sean Penn, was well-received by audiences and critics. Aside from this achievement, Sarandon has also earned eight Golden Globe nominations — including for White Palace, Stepmom, Igby Goes Down, and Bernard and Doris.

The popular actress has graced the small and big screens since 1970. While she has remained in the public consciousness for some time, Sarandon has kept her private life pretty closed. Later on, she revealed the way she coped with her biggest struggle.

Susan was born on October 4, 1946, in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York. She was alway destined for stardom but her childhood was not always easy. Astonishingly she was the oldest child of nine, and whilst she for the most part enjoyed this role, it wasn’t without a struggle…

Being the oldest of so many children gave Susan Sarandon an early sense of responsibility. She was forced into action even if it fought against her natural instincts. In a 2014 interview with Time Out magazine, Sarandon explained how it affected her, “Being at the top, I had a lot of responsibility, which was a good thing as I tended to be spacey and always daydreaming.” She eventually learned how her siblings looked to her as a parent.

After graduating from Catholic University with a BA in drama, Susan decided to take her training (from master teacher Gilbert V Hartke) and find herself some work. Susan and her husband, Chris Sarandon, both auditioned for a part in Joe in 1969. Chris missed out on a role, but Susan won the part of Melissa. The movie put Susan in her first major role, and it was a huge success, making 13 times its budget at the box office.

Her performance in Joe helped open doors for Sarandon. She became a working actress, making the rounds between soap operas and smaller films, including Rocky Horror Picture Show, which became a huge cult hit. Her first taste of recognition came from the film Atlantic City in which she starred across from Burt Lancaster. Susan was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her part, something she would earn on another four occasions.

Although she was now an Oscar nominee, Sarandon entered a disappointing phase in her career during her 30s. She told The Guardian, “In movies, I wasn’t getting parts that were stretching me so much. I was earning a living and having a good time; I’ve always had a good time. But I was at a crossroads and needed to move on in some way.” Fortunately, a golden opportunity was right around the corner, changing the trajectory of her career.

Susan took a detour from film into the theater before finding her biggest role. She was not finding the parts that she wanted, so she started an improv company with some friends. In 1981, she worked on the off-Broadway show A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking which received great reviews. She said about theater, “You and the audience become completely involved, laughing and crying together and if when it’s over they applaud, there’s no way to avoid believing that you contributed to it.”

Sarandon continued to act throughout the 80s, but her career took a major turn after signing on to Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham. The studio felt that she was too old for the role of Annie, so Sarandon flew herself to see Shelton for an audition wearing an off-the-shoulder dress similar to the one she wore in the film. She proved them wrong and became the focal point of the hit film’s love triangle.

In Dead Man Walking, Sarandon played Sister Helen Prejean, a nun that befriends a death row inmate and attempts to save his life. The role earned her an Oscar. Along with the real Sister Helen Prejean, Sarandon and other celebrities (including Mark Ruffalo, Sir Richard Branson, and Pope Francis) have become advocates.

In 2009, Sarandon became involved in an exciting new project. She founded, along with other investors, SPiN, a table tennis club and bar. Since its inception, Sarandon has helped SPiN open locations across the world, including locations in New York, San Francisco, Dubai, and Toronto. SPiN allows guests to reserve tables and play ping pong in a social setting which occasionally features celebrity appearances and professional ping pong players. The adult playhouse has become quite successful for Sarandon.

Make no mistake about it, Susan Sarandon knows how to get stuff done. This has been proven on many occasions with her real estate endeavors. In her words, she’s just wanted a place for her family “where the maintenance isn’t too high and they’re safe.”

It’s not just TV that Sarandon has made a name for herself in. Since the turn of the millennium, the actress has starred in numerous shows such as Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, and Feud: Bette and Joan, to name a few. She has been nominated for awards for her performances in all three aforementioned shows. Despite this, Sarandon has never actually won any of her TV award nominations. However, it’s just a matter of time before that changes.

Susan Sarandon’s role alongside Geena Davis in the classic Thelma & Louise is arguably her most iconic role to date. So when the two got back together for a jaw-dropping reunion at 2018 Golden Globe Awards, everyone in the crowd was in absolute awe. The pair presented the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, which ultimately went to Gary Oldman for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the movie Darkest Hour. It was a priceless moment.

Susan Sarandon might be a world-renowned actress, but there is another in her family tree that has been turning heads recently. Her daughter Eva Amurri has developed quite a nice career for herself as an actress. Her credits include an episode of Friends in which she appeared with her mother. Susan got revenge for years of mothering by slapping her daughter – for the role of course. Eva starred in the film Middle of Nowhere and had a season-long arc in Californication.

In 2011 Eva married former soccer player Kyle Martino, opening the door for Susan’s family to expand with grandchildren. She received that blessing three years later when Eva gave birth to daughter Marlowe Mae and son Major James two years after that. Sarandon said about the prospect of being a grandmother, “There’s some part of your brain that can’t wrap itself around this idea that your child, that your daughter, is going to have a daughter. I mean, it’s just so beautiful and huge.”

With her family seemingly growing every few years, Susan is loving life as a grandma. She told Metro, “Being a grandmother is so much easier than being a mother. You don’t have that constant worry that’s in your mind all the time.”  Susan will appear in two films slated for late 2017 releases, including a sequel to Bad Moms. For now, she is content spending time and taking Instagram photos with the family she never thought she could have.

Due to her liberal ways, Sarandon has been known to get in touch with her youthful self on numerous occasions, mixing with people over half her age. In recent times, she has been spotted at Nevada’s Burning Man festival. She only has good things to say about it. “It’s fabulous,” she said in an interview with The Daily Beast. “Despite the fact that there was more of a police presence there, it was a lot of fun and I’d definitely go back.”

As a student at Catholic University, Susan met a nice boy named Chris Sarandon. Their relationship blossomed, and the two were married on September 16, 1967. She was only a 20 year old senior at the time of their marriage. Unfortunately, the couple would divorce in 1979. With her career starting out, Susan decided that a name change would not help, so she held onto her ex-hubby’s name. She still uses his last name as her stage name.

In that Time Out interview, Sarandon expanded on how her family impacted her life. She said, “My parents were pretty overwhelmed. Neither of them had families, so they ended up finding each other and creating this huge tribe with very little knowledge or example to follow of how to deal with kids. [For me] it was very good training; lack of privacy and chaos are very good conditioning for show business.”

Susan’s early life was heavily rooted in Catholicism thanks to her mother and her Italian descent. Prior to high school, she attended Catholic schools. She told the Los Angeles Times, “I was very spacey, kind of in my head, dreamy and really concerned with my faith and being a good person.” Susan enrolled at The Catholic University of America in 1964, but the experience left her questioning her faith even more than she had as a teenager.

By the time Sarandon attended Catholic University, she was no longer the practicing Catholic she was in her younger days. Perhaps it was due to the time a nun told her that she had “an overabundance of original sin after asking if “you had to be married in the Catholic church or it didn’t count, how were Joseph and Mary married?” Sarandon only went to Catholic University because her parents had missed the deadline on the rest of her college applications.

Due to her young marriage, Sarandon did not begin seeing other public figures until later in her life. As her profile expanded, the freshly single Susan began dipping her toes in the celebrity waters. At one point she was romantically involved with her Atlantic City director, Academy Award winner Louis Malle. In 2014, she revealed a relationship with rock legend David Bowie who she called “extraordinary.” The two starred together in the 1983 vampire film The Hunger.

As her relationship with Bowie started growing and filming continued on The Hunger, Susan began suffering from sporadic bleeding and fainting. After seeing the doctor, Sarandon found out that she was suffering from a condition called Endometriosis. The condition makes it difficult to have children. Doctors told Susan that if she hoped to give birth in the future, she would require surgery first. In the end, they gave her some birth control and let her live her life.

Sarandon was not phased by being told she would never be a mother. In a 2011 speech at the Blossom Ball hosted by the Endometriosis Foundation of America, she referred to it as a “half-assed diagnosis.” A few years later in an interview with Time Out magazine, she revealed, “It didn’t break my heart; I had plenty of nieces and nephews by that time. I wasn’t dipping into gene pools that I felt the need to replicate. I was fine with it.”

If you have not heard of Endometriosis, you are not alone. Many are unaware of the condition. That being said, about ten percent of women of reproductive age suffer from it. To help raise awareness for it, many celebrities have begun openly speaking on their experiences with it. Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, Girls star Lena Dunham, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens heroine Daisy Ridley have all taken to the press to create more awareness based on their struggles with Endometriosis.

Not long after her diagnosis, Sarandon began welcomed a new man into her life. She started seeing Franco Amurri, an Italian filmmaker best known for the Italian film which inspired Big starring Tom Hanks. The two had met on the set of Tempest a few years earlier. Neither Susan nor Franco intended the relationship to last long as both expected it to be a quick fling. Instead, they would be forever linked in a major and surprising way.

Due to her condition, Susan treated her relationship with Franco similar to her past flings. She had not used birth control for years believing that she could not get pregnant. This time around, Susan received shocking news – she was pregnant with a baby girl. Susan and her close friends and family could not believe the news. Her career had started to trend upward, and she did not know how this would affect her. Susan decided to keep the miracle baby.

Sarandon told Oprah about how she broke the news to Franco. She explained, “I said to Franco, you know, ‘I’ve decided that I’m going to have this baby. And if you want to be part of it, that’s great. If you don’t, that’s great too. Because I thought, you know what, if this was an impossibility and it’s happened, clearly it’s meant to happen.” The impossible had happened, and Susan was ready for the challenges.

On March 15, 1985, Sarandon’s miracle was finally realized, and she gave birth to baby girl Eva Amurri. Susan had not married Franco nor were they still dating, but they decided that Eva should take her father’s name. Young Eva would live with Susan and would go visit her father in Italy as she grew older. Eva has deep Italian roots, as her father is Italian and her maternal grandmother is Italian as well.

While filming Bull Durham, Susan, now with a three-year-old daughter, began getting close to one of her costars. In the film, Sarandon’s character, a minor league baseball groupie, becomes involved with both the up and coming young pitcher (Tim Robbins) and the cranky veteran catcher (Kevin Costner).

Susan’s relationship with Tim came at the most prosperous time of her life. Bull Durham became one of the highest grossing films of 1988. Not only were her films successful, but she became a powerhouse actress, picking up numerous nominations and awards along the way. Between 1991 and 1995, Susan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times including Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, and The Client. Finally, in 1995, she broke through and captured her first Oscar for Dead Man Walking.

Sarandon was overjoyed to have finally won an Oscar for Dead Man Walking. In addition to thanking the cast and crew, Sarandon had planned on making a statement about war and violence. She had always been a very politically and socially conscious person and wanted the chance to share her thoughts on one of the world’s biggest stages. Instead, she got wrapped up in the moment and forgot to make her full statement. She focused on thanking Robbins.

Although Sarandon missed her chance to make a statement in 1995, audience would not have been surprised if she did. Two years earlier, Sarandon and Robbins used the state at the Oscars to not only announce a category’s nominees, but to urge the United States government to release some prisoners. They disapproved of the United States’ detention of HIV-positive Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay. The Academy was not pleased with the stunt, but they could not ignore her talent.

Robbins and Sarandon became a Hollywood “It” couple. Although they never married, the couple made a major announcement in 1989: they were expecting a baby. John “Jack” Henry was born on May 15, 1989. Almost exactly three years later, Sarandon would yet again give birth to a boy, Miles Guthrie. A decade had passed since Sarandon received her Endometriosis diagnosis, but here she was with not only one child, but three beautiful children and a full family.

In 2009, Robbins and Sarandon made a shocking revelation: they announced the end of the relationship. After 21 years together and two children, the power couple decided to call it quits. Susan told The Telegraph,  “I thought that if you didn’t get married, you wouldn’t take each other for granted as easily. I don’t know if after twentysomething years that was still true.”  With their children grown, they seemed to handle the split well and carrying on with their young lives.

The 72-year-old recently opened up about her love life. Sarandon revealed that her sexual orientation is not as straight forward as you might have thought. She said that her sexual orientation is “open” and “up for grabs.” Sarandon admitted that she would be open to relationships with either men or women. However, she does not seem to be getting as many offers as she would like. Hopefully, she will find someone right for her.

Susan always had a man by her side in her younger days. During the 80s, she once had an affair with her The Hunger co-star, Philip Sayer. Sayer, a British actor, died in 1989 but was known to be gay. Sarandon said, “I did at one point have a very successful and very loving and wonderful affair with a man who then wasn’t with another woman after me, and that worked out fine!’

Susan is famously liberal in most of her political opinions. While one might think that would also include being a staunch feminist, you would be surprised to hear the contrary. She said, “I think of myself as a humanist because I think it’s less alienating to people who think of feminism as being a load of strident b**ches.” She tries to fight for the rights of everyone, not only those of her gender.

Of all her political causes, Susan Sarandon has always been an anti-war activist. When the 2003 war with Iraq broke out, she made sure to make her objection known appearing in political ads. Sarandon has spoken out against many wars, but interestingly, her mother falls on the other side of the political spectrum. Her mom, Leonora Tomalin, is a staunch Republican was very supportive of George W. Bush and the 2003 war with which her daughter disagreed.

Due to her strong views and willingness to voice them, Sarandon got in some hot water due to some comments about Pope Benedict XVI. When Sarandon was a speaker at the Hamptons film festival, she spoke about how she sent the Pope a copy of Dead Man Walking because of his stance on the death penalty. She clarified that she was speaking about Pope John Paul II by saying, “The last (pope), not this Nazi one we have now.”