From her breakthrough role as saucy, virginal (cough!) bride-to-be Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Picture Show to her Oscar-winning performance as a real-life nun in Dead Man Walking, Susan Sarandon has blazed a trail across the silver screen—and the TV screen, too. In celebration of Sarandon guest-editing Time Out, we pay tribute to the star with our pick of our favorite performances. Enjoy. (We did).

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
As doe-eyed Janet Weiss, she experienced a sexual awakening alongside rock & roll–loving, cross-dressing aliens—and in the process helped spawn the campiest, most rabidly popular cult musical of all time. Her awesomely dirty “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me” number was tattooed onto the brains of 11-year-old boys everywhere, including a young Louis C.K., who admitted to having “a little time by [himself]” after watching it.
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