Biography
Joanna Gleason Sarandon (née Joanne Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She is known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She is also known for her film work in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Grotto
2022
Writer, Director
When her fiancé dies unexpectedly and she loses her job, 40-something music manager Alice Kendall inherits half ownership of The Grotto, a struggling ...

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who ...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

The Skeleton Twins
2014
as Judy
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wro...

Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performance. The Russian Broadway community responds.

Last Vegas
2013
as Miriam Harris
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four ...

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
as Self
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master com...

The Rebound
2009
as Roberta Finklestein
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married ...

The Women
2008
as Barbara
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we...

My Sassy Girl
2008
as Kitty / Aunt Sally
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.

Sex and the City
2008
as Therapist
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadver...

The Girl in the Park
2007
as Sarah Graczyk
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. Ho...

Wedding Daze
2006
as Lois
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously pro...

Fathers and Sons
2005
as Silvia
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Antho...

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

The Wedding Planner
2001
as Mrs. Donolly
San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he ...

Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Dr. Rona Harvey
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Boogie Nights
1997
as Dirk's Mother
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his cra...

Road Ends
1997
as Armacost
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a...

American Perfekt
1997
as Shirley
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m...

If These Walls Could Talk
1996
as Julia
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...

Edie & Pen
1996
as Maude
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband a...

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
as Gertrude Lang as an adult
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his tru...

For the Love of Aaron
1994
as Shirley
Family Ties' Meredith Baxter Birney stars in this made-for-television movie about a woman threatened with losing her son to her ex-husband. Following ...

Born Too Soon
1993
as Annemarie
American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth.

For Richer, for Poorer
1992
as Irene
Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan t...

F/X2
1991
as Liz Kennedy, Assistant DA
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goe...

The Boys
1991
as Marie
When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, a chain-smoker. As Walter fig...

Into the Woods
1991
as Baker's Wife
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Wendy Stern
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an ...

Life Under Water
1989
as Jinx
Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to take his life in his own hands. A TV movie direct...

Heartburn
1986
as Diana
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Carol
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her ...

Still the Beaver
1983
as Kimberly
This movie reunites most of the members of the Cleaver clan, Wally, June, and of course, the Beaver. Their father Ward has passed away. Wally's marrie...

Great Day
1983
as Jennifer Simpson
When a neighborhood is plagued by break-ins, a family looks to burglar-proof their house. Dead bolts aren't enough, so the father (Tim Conway) has to ...