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One of the cultiest of all cult actresses, self-styled outsider and committed eccentric Susan Tyrrell has died aged 67, it has been announced. The daughter of a top Hollywood agent, she started acting in her teens and broke into movies with a handful of obscure 1970s titles until her breakthrough in the Oscar-nominated Fat City. After attending the ceremony and not liking what she saw (nervous movie stars, mainly) she dedicated herself to the fringes of acting culture, some of her more memorable roles including Patrick McGoohan's musical Catch My Soul, Jim Thompson adaptation The Killer Inside Me, Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, Andy Warhol's Bad, and James Dean-inspired September 30, 1955.
For the eighties and beyond, there were Charles Bukowski adaptation Tales of Ordinary Madness, cult classic Forbidden Zone (as the Queen), Fastwalking, Night Warning, Fire and Ice, Angel and its sequel Avenging Angel, Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood, The Offspring, Tapeheads, very small in Big Top Pee-Wee, John Waters' Cry-Baby, Motorama and Masked and Anonymous, that latter made after her serious illness which saw her legs amputated below the knee, but did not stop her continuing with her stage shows. There will never be another Susan Tyrrell. |
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