Since the stroke, which he suffered aged 66, the legendary actor has remained largely out of the public eye and has been rarely sighted.<\/p>\n
Sharing details about the brain attack, Tim continued: ‘I was having a massage at the time and I didn’t even actually notice anything, but the guy who was doing the massage said, “I’m worried about you, I want to call an ambulance.”<\/p>\n
‘And he did, and I said, “That’s so silly.”‘<\/p>\n
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Tim Curry revealed he has problems with his left leg as he shared a rare health update\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The legendary actor,\u00a079, suffered a stroke at his home 13 years ago (pictured with co-star Nell Campbell on September 26)\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Mayo Clinic, an ischemic stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is blocked or reduced.<\/p>\n
This prevents brain tissue from getting oxygen and nutrients. Brain cells begin to die in minutes.<\/p>\n
Another type of stroke is a hemorrhagic stroke. It occurs when a blood vessel in the brain leaks or bursts and causes bleeding in the brain. The blood increases pressure on brain cells and damages them.<\/p>\n
Tim is best known for his role as the brilliantly mad scientist Dr Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.<\/p>\n
He first starred in the original 1973 London production and continued to play the part on Broadway before reviving the character in the 1975 film.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the film’s lasting impact, he said as per The Hollywood Reporter: ‘I’m so excited by this and very honored by the Academy to do this presentation of our movie, which has dragged on for 50 years.’<\/p>\n
Tim enjoyed an illustrious acting career prior to the health scare having shot to fame through The Rocky Picture Show in 1975.<\/p>\n
On the role that catapulted him to stardom, he told Los Angeles magazine that he looks at the film’s success ‘with a sort of bemused tolerance.’<\/p>\n
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Tim shot to fame as Dr Frank-N-Furter in the musical comedy The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/p>\n
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He first starred in the 1973 London production before featuring in the film two years later\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Tim has enjoyed an illustrious career on the stage and screen having appeared in the likes of Annie (1982), Home Alone 2 (1992), and Charlie’s Angels (2000)\u00a0<\/p>\n
He continued: ‘It’s neither a blessing nor a curse. I was lucky to get it.’<\/p>\n
For many years he rarely discussed the movie, fearing he would be typecast.<\/p>\n
He previously recalled the opening night during his Broadway debut in The Rocky Horror Picture Show as ‘very exciting’ but found its critics to be far too harsh.<\/p>\n
‘I had to go on the Today Show the next day and they read the reviews – which were appalling,’ he explained. ‘That brought me down. It was very cruel.’<\/p>\n
The reviews described his performance as ‘a mixture of Joan Crawford and Burt Lancaster’ and ‘Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Marc Bolan all in one.’<\/p>\n
He went on join the cast of 1990’s Home Alone 2 playing the stuffy and suspicious Mr Hector.<\/p>\n
Although he did not play a starring role, his character was one of the most iconic to come out of the sequel to the popular Christmas film.<\/p>\n
Tim was honored with The Actors Fund Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 at the Tony Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Curry has shared an update on his health after suffering a stroke 13 years ago. The legendary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[776,6491,97,96,519,99,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-180606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-femail","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}