Chris Sarandon
- Born: 24 Jul, 1942
This tall, darkly handsome character actor first came to attention as Al Pacino's overwrought gay lover in Sidney Lumet's "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), a role that earned him an Oscar nomination, and later was amusingly wonderful as the villainous prince in Rob Reiner's "The Princess Bride" (1987). Chris Sarandon came out of a decade of stage roles before working in front of the cameras. He first toured the US as a member of the Catholic University Players, performing works by Moliere and Shakespeare and later marked time with an improvisational company in Washington, DC, and with the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT. Sarandon made his Broadway debut in 1970 as Jacob Rothschild--the brother who takes France--in the musical "The Rothschilds", with Hal Linden a...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Chris Sarandon: owned a cafe in Beckley, West Virginia
- mother Mary Sarandon: owned a cafe in Beckley, West Virginia
- daughter : born c. 1983
- daughter : born c. 1985
- son : born c. 1989
- wife Susan Tomalin: married on September 16, 1967; divorced in 1979
- : divorced from the mother of his three children
- wife Joanna Gleason: appeared together in the 1991 Broadway show "Nick and Nora"; married in 1994
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