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I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Susan Sarandon

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Susan Sarandon
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 4
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