1. Susan Tyrrell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's Fat City.
17 Facts About Susan Tyrrell
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In 1978, Susan Tyrrell received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Andy Warhol's Bad.
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Susan Tyrrell was born in San Francisco, California, to a British mother, Gillian, and an American father, John Belding Creamer.
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Susan Tyrrell's mother was a socialite and member of the diplomatic corps in China and the Philippines during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Susan Tyrrell's father John was an agent with the William Morris Agency who represented Leo Carrillo, Loretta Young, Ed Wynn, and Carole Lombard.
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Susan Tyrrell was a poor student and as a teenager became estranged from her mother.
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Susan Tyrrell's father persuaded Look magazine to follow her as she toured with the show, but he died shortly afterwards.
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Susan Tyrrell made her Broadway debut in 1965 as a replacement performer in the comedy Cactus Flower.
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Susan Tyrrell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's Fat City.
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Later, Susan Tyrrell starred as Queen Doris in the indie Forbidden Zone.
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From 1981 to 1982, Susan Tyrrell starred as Gretchen Feester, in the ABC's short-lived situation comedy series Open All Night.
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Susan Tyrrell then had a starring role in the exploitation horror film Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker.
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Susan Tyrrell took a supporting role in John Waters' Cry-Baby.
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Susan Tyrrell moved to New York City in the early 1960s to focus on theater work, for the first time meeting and socializing with openly LGBT people.
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The artistic crowd of "New York freaks" she associated with included "Andy Warhol people", among them Candy Darling, with whom Susan Tyrrell had a relationship and shared an apartment.
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Susan Tyrrell suffered from essential thrombocytosis, a disease of the blood.
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In 2008, Susan Tyrrell moved to Austin, Texas, to be closer to her niece.