Tim Curry renowned for his breakout role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and subsequent Broadway musical stage productions, followed by a prolific, wide-ranging and award winning career on stage, screen and music, is 80 tomorrow.
He was born 19 April 1946 12 noon (from memory) Grappenhall, England, the son of a Methodist Royal Navy chaplain, and spent his early years in Hong Kong. He was a boy soprano at the age of six and was doing Shakespeare by the time he was ten. After graduating at university he got a role in the London production of “Hair” and never looked back with further stage successes in Amadeus, The Pirates of Penzance and productions of Spamalot.
His 2025 memoir was described by reviewers as ‘riotous fun’; ‘Searingly intimate…highly entertaining’; a witty page-turner, full of life. Come for the career, stay for the celebrity encounters: impromptu dinners with David Bowie after stage performances of The Rocky Horror Show; working through bowls of cocaine at Studio 54 with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol, and a hilariously catty encounter with Donald Trump on the set of Home Alone 2′.
His later career after a catastrophic stroke in 2012 that nearly took his life has focused on voicework. He lives in Los Angeles with his dog and is a keen horticulturalist.
He has a career-focussed, go-ahead 10th house Aries Sun in an enthusiastic, optimistic, lucky opposition to Jupiter square a tricky Saturn Mars in Cancer in his 12th, which latter hard-driving combo may go a long way to explain his ultra-busy career. His communicative Mercury in Aries in his much-travelled 9th house is in an inspirational Fire Grand Trine to Pluto on his Ascendant trine a lively Sagittarius Moon, turned into an even more talented Kite with his Sun opposition musical Neptune – making creative Neptune his driving planet.
His expansive Jupiter is also on the focal point of a yod inconjunct a 10th house Venus in Taurus sextile Saturn. Venus in the 10th points to a creative career with Taurus ruling the throat and a charming personality, good at public relations. A Jupiterian yod can have positive effects on the culture and society.
When he unexpectedly had his stroke in 2012 there was an aggravated and high-risk transiting T square of Mars in an explosive opposition to Uranus in a trapped square to Pluto on the cusp of his 6th house of health, all homing in on his Neptune. He still has mobility issues from that.
He is single and says his private life is his concern and no one else’s, which is admirably un-celebrity of him and only worth noting since his Pluto falls on his Ascendant. This usually hints at a strong-minded and unknowable personality who puts up defences against intrusion.
He will be mellowing at the moment with his charming Solar Arc Venus conjunct his Ascendant this year; and transiting Jupiter heading to start a new upbeat cycle in his life as it also crosses his Ascendant into his 1st after the middle of this year (birth time being reasonably accurate).
What a difference a chart layout makes. My partner is celebrating his 80th solar return today but his chart is the exact opposite of Curry’s, with Aquarius rising and Pluto falling on his Descendant. His Moon is at 29 Scorpio in his 10th, with the Aries Sun in the 3rd and Venus in Taurus conjunction the IC (sextile Saturn in Cancer). He is bipolar, which showed up I expect around when Neptune transited his Scorpio Moon. Eventually got the right meds and worked in a patient-led support organization for people with mood disorders. We got together in 2009 with Saturn in the 8th trining his Venus/IC, and progressed Venus on his Descendant.