Susan Tyrrell
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Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer, 1945-2012) was an American character actress.
Tyrrell's career began in theatre in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions.
Shoot Out (1971), her first film, was Shoot Out (1971).
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in John Huston's Fat City (1972).
Tyrrell received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1978, Andy Warhol's Bad (1977).
"A whiskey-voiced character actor (with) a gift for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque," her New York Times obituary described her as "a whiskey-voiced character actor (with) talent for portraying the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque."
Early life
Tyrrell was born in San Francisco, California, to a British mother, Gillian (née Tyrrell), and American father, John Belding Creamer. During the 1930s and 1940s, her mother was a socialite and member of China's diplomatic corps. Her father, John, was an agent with the William Morris Agency who represented Leo Carrillo, Loretta Young, Ed Wynn, and Carole Lombard.
Tyrrell spent her childhood in New Canaan, Connecticut. She was a poor student and was estranged from her mother as a teenager. Tyrrell appeared in the dramatic production of Time Out for Ginger (1963), starring Art Carney in New York City, through her father's links. When she toured with her father, she begged Look magazine to follow her, but he died soon thereafter.
Personal life
Tyrrell lived in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon neighborhood in the 1970s during his two-year relationship with actor Hervé Villechaize and shared a home with him.
Tyrrell suffered from essential thrombocytosis, a blood disease. Her illness necessitated bilateral below-knee amputations in early 2000. Johnny Depp held a benefit at the Viper Room in order to help defray Tyrrell's medical bills. Megan Mullally, Jack Black, and Chloe Webb attended.
Tyrrell moved to Austin, Texas, in 2008, to be closer to her niece. "I request my death be joy and I never return to this world," Tyrrell wrote in her journal in January 2012. She died in Austin on June 16, 2012. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered.
Career
Tyrrell made her Broadway debut in 1965 as a replacement artist in the comedy Cactus Flower. In 1968, she appeared in King Lear and its revivals of The Time of Your Life (1969) and Camino Real (1970). Tyrrell appeared on Off-Broadway in the inaugural of Lanford Wilson's The Rimers of Eldritch, 1967, and a 1979 revival of Father's Day at The American Place Theatre.
Tyrrell's first television appearance came in Mr. Novak (1964), and her first film appearance was in Shoot Out (1971). Tyrrell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in John Huston's Fat City (1972). In 1976, she appeared in I Never Promised You A Rose Garden as a psychotic bimbo. In 1978, she received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Bad.
Tyrrell appeared in the 1980s' Indie Forbidden Zone (Wild). "Witch's Egg" was the film's theme song. Vera was portrayed in Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) a year later. Tyrrell appeared in the ABC's short-lived situation comedy series Open All Night from 1981 to 1982. She appeared in the 1982 horror film Night Warning.
Tyrrell appeared in Angel and its 1984 sequel, Avenging Angel, in 1983. Then appeared in the Vincent Price anthology horror film Flesh+Blood (1987), The Whisper to a Scream (1987), and Big Top Pee-wee (the 1988 sequel to 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure) titled "Then followed the actors. Tyrrell played a supporting role in John Waters' Cry-Baby (1990).
Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta, 1992, Tyrrell performed her own one-woman show, My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta. Tyrrell appeared in Tales from the Crypt episode "Comes the Dawn" (1995), the animated series Extreme Ghostbusters (1999), and the psychological thriller film Buddy Boy (1999).
Tyrrell appeared in Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous (2003) and The Devil's Due At Midnight (2004), as a child. She made her last appearance in Kid-Thing, a 2012 independent film.