Tim Curry in New York City in 2005
Tim Curry in New York City, 2005. Photo by G.P. Chicken. Dedicated to the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons. License
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Tim Curry

A permanent Shrine for the voice, the danger, the camp, the comedy, and the sweet transvestite who detonated the screen.

Verified record

Life, work & what’s documented

Tim Curry’s record begins here as a Shrine. The death report is sourced; the page is designed to grow into a complete permanent retrospective.

Actor, singer, and voice performer whose work jumped joyfully between cult cinema, theater, comedy, horror, animation, and games.

Give them their flowers

Why They’re Fucking Awesome

He could turn a single raised eyebrow into a genre. Frank-N-Furter alone would guarantee immortality; the impossible range around that performance makes the whole career glow stranger and brighter.

Essential works: The Rocky Horror Picture Show · Clue · It · Legend

Statistics / evidence

Context is not destiny

Reported dead at age 80. The record does not infer cause or circumstances beyond the cited reporting.

Documented health context: No cause or current medical narrative is asserted in this foundation record.

Historical illness and age are context, not proof of a current crisis or a factual mortality forecast.

Astrology / interpretation

The cosmic file

SunAries
MoonUnlisted
AscendantUncertain

No mortality claim is derived from the chart. Future interpretation must remain retrospective and source-qualified.

Birth-data confidence: Not evaluated in this foundation record. Astrology is interpretive and is never medical prediction.

Receipts

Sources & provenance

  1. Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80Associated Press / 2026-08-26 / death_recordSource for reported death and age only.

Research last updated 2026-08-26.

Image rights

Portrait provenance

Tim Curry in New York City, 2005. Photo by G.P. Chicken. Dedicated to the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Exact source file · Public domain dedication · Retrieved 2026-08-26.

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