(From JR: Me, I'll always remember -- and love her best -- as the frazzled, high-strung mess-of-a-mother/daughter-in-law in the blackest of Andy Warhol's black comedies, "Bad.")
Unconventional thesp Susan Tyrrell, who was Oscar-nommed for her supporting actress role in John Huston's "Fat City," died Sunday, according to her website. The cult actress, who often played whores, crazies and grotesques, was 67. ...
Her other roles in the 1970s included "The Killer Inside Me," "Andy Warhol's Bad," "Islands in the Stream" and "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden."
She continued her offbeat character roles as in the 1980s in films such as "Tales of Ordinary Madness," "Forbidden Zone," "Big Top Pee-Wee" and John Waters' "Cry-Baby." ...
She told the Los Angeles Weekly in 2000, "The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it."
In 2000, she contracted a rare blood disease and had both legs amputated. Nonetheless, she continued to appear in films such as Larry Charles' "Masked and Anonymous."
More:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-201206181733reedbusivarietynvr1118055651-20120618,0,3706261.story
Her website ("1945-2012"):
http://susantyrrell.com/
Blog, a searchable database of obituaries
back to 2001:
http://DeadCelebrityAlert.com
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