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==Early life== Timothy James Curry was born on 19 April 1946 in [[Grappenhall|Grappenhall, Cheshire]],{{efn|Grappenhall did not become part of the nearby town of [[Warrington]] until 1 April 1974.}}<ref name=fi>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/35/Tim-Curry.html |title=Tim Curry Biography (1946β) |publisher=Film Reference |access-date=15 September 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Whittaker |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q14SAQAAMAAJ |title=Cosmic Light: The Birth of a Cult Classic |date=1998 |publisher=Acme Books |page=31 |language=en |lccn=98232656 |quote=Timothy James Curry was born in Cheshire, England, on April 19, 1946, the son of a Methodist Navy chaplain who died when Curry was twelve.}}</ref> the son of school secretary Patricia and [[Royal Navy]] chaplain James Curry. His father died of [[pneumonia]] in 1958, when Curry was 12 years old.<ref name=fi/> His elder sister, Judith, was a concert pianist who died of a [[brain tumour]] in 2001.<ref name=Standard>{{cite news| url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/tim-currys-back-on-the-grail-trail-7174713.html| title=Tim Curry's back on the Grail trail| work=[[Evening Standard]]| date=25 September 2006| access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref> Curry spent most of his childhood in [[Plymouth]]. After his father's death, Curry and his family moved to [[South London]], where he attended [[boarding school]] before attending [[Kingswood School]] in [[Bath, Somerset]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Laura|title=Biography|website=timcurry.co.uk|url=http://www.timcurry.co.uk/biography/4546489136|access-date=10 March 2017|archive-date=4 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004142456/http://www.timcurry.co.uk/biography/4546489136|url-status=dead}}</ref> Curry developed into a talented [[boy soprano]].<ref name="NYT">{{cite news| first=Mervyn| last=Rothstein| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DE1438F937A15752C0A966958260&sec=&spon=| title=Tim Curry Plunges Ahead into the Past, Part IV| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=24 January 1990}}</ref> Deciding to concentrate on acting, he graduated from the [[University of Birmingham]] with a combined [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in English and drama in 1968.<ref>{{cite book| last=Harding| first=James| date=1 October 1987| title=The Rocky Horror Show Book| location=London| publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson| page=45| isbn=978-0283993886}}</ref>
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