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 later years, she appeared in avant-garde theater productions in Los Angeles including her one-woman show “My Rotten Life: A Bitter Operetta” and did voices for cartoons such as “Cow and Chicken” and “Extreme Ghostbusters.” She moved to Austin in 2008.
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She continued her offbeat character roles in the 1980s and ’90s in films such as “Tales of Ordinary Madness,” “Forbidden Zone,” “Big Top Pee-Wee,” “Powder” and John Waters’ “Cry-Baby.” Tyrrell also made guest appearances on TV shows including “Baretta,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Kojak” and “Tales of the Crypt.” 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 made her stage debut as a teenager in 1962 in “Time Out for Ginger.” After appearing in a number of New York stage productions as member of the Lincoln Center repertory company, she began to get film roles in pics including “Shoot Out” and “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me,” and won her Oscar nom in her fourth film job as a low-life boozer girlfriend opposite Stacy Keach’s washed-up boxer.
Born Susan Jillian Creamer in San Francisco, her father was a William Morris agent.
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