She had an impact with Democratic Party politics in 2016.
Last year, for Election 2016, actress Susan Sarandon endorsed for the Democratic presidential nomination U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Sarandon—who turns 71 years old today (she was born October 4, 1946, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York)—has taken her hits from Good, Loyal Democrats who could not fathom that she was not going to get on board for the corporate, establishment Democrats’ preferred candidate, and eventual nominee, former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York. In fact, according to Wikipedia.org, it was on October 30, 2016 when Sarandon endorsed for the general election Green Party nominee Jill Stein of Massachusetts.
In addition to winning the 1995 best-actress Oscar for Dead Man Walking—following four additional nominations in the same category (Atlantic City, 1981; Thelma & Louise, 1991; Lorenzo’s Oil, 1992; and The Client, 1994)—Sarandon received a 2016–17 Emmy nomination for lead actress in a limited series or movie for FX's Feud: Bette & Joan. In Ryan Murphy's miniseries, about the decades’ long rivalry pitting two movie-screen legends, Jessica Lange (who won the 1994 best-actress Oscar for Blue Sky) plays Joan Crawford (c. 1904–1977) to Sarandon as politically-left Bette Davis (1908–1989). In addition to Feud, Sarandon has received six more Emmy nominations spanning the previous and current decades.
Susan Sarandon is a true artist. And many artists, at least ones who do not easily go along with Hollywood's connection with Democratic Party Establishment bona fides, are truly on the left. They're real progressives. They’re more in line with the Democratic Party presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. With the fine example of Sarandon, who endorsed at least one of consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s presidential election bids, this is a risk. The same cannot be said of the those who have smeared her.
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