Stage and Screen Star Susan Tyrrell Dies at 67

According to USA Today, stage and screen actor Susan Tyrrell died in her sleep June 16, 2012. She was 67. Read the original obituary here.

Tyrrell, perhaps best known for her film roles as Oma in Fat City, for which she was nominated for an Oscar, and in John Waters' Cry Baby, also appeared on Broadway in Cactus Flower (1965), King Lear (1968), A Cry of Players (1968), Time of Your Life (1969) and Camino Real (1970). She performed in a New York production of Time Out for Ginger opposite Art Carney, as well as The Rimers of Eldritch, and more.

On the screen, Tyrrell played roles in more than 75 movies and television shows, including Shoot Out, Baretta, Starsky and Hutck, Kojak, Angel, Avenging Angel, Masked and Anonymous, The Devil's Due at Midnight and most recently in Nathan and David Zellner's Kid-Thing (2012).

Photo courtesy of the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

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