Tim Curry was a supernova and the ultimate cult actor

If “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was the ultimate cult movie, Tim Curry was the ultimate cult actor.To be his fan was to be his follower.Curry was, simply put, an addictive presence to behold.The gregarious Brit, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 80, oozed an eccentric, ginormous personality that exploded off the screen and stage and inspired a passionate fandom spanning multiple generations.Close your eyes and you can hear his chesty, devilish laugh.

You can picture his mischievous grin.That black corset and the fishnets are forever seared onto your retinas.

Curry was not in the business of being forgettable.Part glam rocker, part butler, part Mephistopheles, spicy Curry fused that aura onto every role he played — from a sweet transvestite from Transylvania to a demonic clown terrorizing a town in Maine.If you cast Tim Curry in a movie, it’s because you wanted pure Tim Curry.Everybody has their favorite.Younger viewers will know him as the suspicious Plaza hotel concierge in “Home Alone 2.” And millennials have a soft spot for his performance as Wadsworth “Clue.” I’m partial to his hilarious Broadway turn as King Arthur in “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”But his most famous role was, of course, his breakout turn as the lascivious Dr.

Frank ‘N Furter in 1975’s “Rocky Horror,” a part he originated onstage in London two years prior.Born in 1946 in Cheshire, England, Curry was a nobody when he tried out for director Jim Sharman’s musical at the Royal Court Theatre.He’d been in the British cast of “Hair.” Yet at 27 years old he already had a rock star’s confidence.“Tim auditioned singing Little Richard’s ‘Tutti Frutti,’ ” Sharman told The Post in 2020.

“He ripped the Royal Court roof off.He had it, then and there . . .

and, beneath the makeup, Tim was that rare thing, a thinking actor with an adventurous streak, and [had] the technical chops to really deliver.He simply got it.”Adventurous is right.

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