Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri
I happen to love Susan Sarandon but I know she has a polarizing effect. You can sort rooms of people as either ‘pro’ or ‘con’. And it would probably track pretty much along with red and blue. Ms. Saradon is nothing if not political. She is active on many fronts, works for several causes, and is on the board of the Yele Haiti Foundation. She has helping with relief efforts for Haiti for years and is obviously very busy this week.
Susan’s daughter Eva has probably been both pro and con her mother at various points in her life. During her teen years, she admitted to finding her mother embarrassing - a wonderfully normal reaction by a teen to her mother. Kind of refreshing in such an unusual family. Eva Amurri is now 24 and has recently criticized her mother’s fashion sense. Again, refreshingly normal.
Susan and her long time partner, Tim Robbins, recently split. They had been together 25 years and were often pointed to as a success in terms of Hollywood couples. Tim is not Eva’s birth father but she has lived with the couple most of her life. Susan, 12 years older than Tim, never married him because she didn’t want to take him for granted. She and Tim had two sons, Eva’s half brothers.
Highly intelligent and a Brown University graduate, Eva is following in her mother’s footsteps and has chosen acting as her career. She’s even appeared in two films with her mother. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I’d say Susan has been a darn good role model.
Tags: Eva Amurri, relief efforts for Haiti, Susan Saradon, Yele Haiti Foundation