"Rocky Horror Picture Show" actor Tim Curry suffered a major stroke in Los Angeles on Thursday night, but is now recovering well in his home in the Hollywood Hills.
According to the Huffington Post, Curry, 67, was at his Spanish colonial-style villa where he dwells solo, when he was stricken by stroke.
Rumors circled initially, with whispers of Curry's speech impaired by the ailment.
But Curry's agent Marcia Hurwitz told the Daily Mail that Curry was, in fact, fine, and that his words were unaffected by the stroke.
"Tim is doing great," Hurwitz said. "He absolutely can speak and is recovering at this time and in great humor."
Curry was born in the suburban village of Grappenhall, in Warrington, England to Royal Navy chaplain James and school secretary Patricia Curry.
After playing his first role as part of the original London cast of the musical Hair in 1968-where he met Richard O'Brien, who would go on to write "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"- he quickly became one of England's most well-known and loved actors, specializing in caricatures and impressions.
He starred in "Monty Python's Spamalot," which won a 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, but Curry is most famous for his role as the cross-dressing Frank-N-Furter in 1975 cult musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Curry was to play a role in the Trevor Nunn production of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead," at the Chichester Festival Theater, then in London, but he left the role last minute, when he said he was not well enough to participate.
On May 27, he said that he was suffering from crippling asthma attacks, along with a chest infection.
