Tim Curry made a rare public appearance on Sunday night to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Actors Fund.
The 69-year-old Curry rolled onto the red carpet seated in a motorized wheelchair at the Tony Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles. A stroke in 2012 left his speech impaired but "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" star managed to keep his wits about him.
"I'm doing well," he told Los Angeles Magazine and added that it hasn't been "tough to maintain" his sense of humor over the last few years. "It is just part of my DNA."
Curry accepted the lifetime honor with three other stage veterans including Theodore Bikel, Alfred Molina and Joe Morton.
The English actor first starred as Dr. Frank N. Furter in the original London production of "The Rocky Horror Show" in 1973. He reprised the role on stage in Los Angeles a year later before he portrayed the diabolical mad scientist and transvestite in the 1975 cult classic film.
Today, Curry views the film with a "bemused tolerance."
"It's neither a blessing nor a curse. I was lucky to get it," he said.
Curry's other notable credits include the 1985 comedy, "Clue" and starring in the original cast of Broadway's "Amadeus," as the title character, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He most recently played King Arthur in "Spamalot" from 2004 to 2007.
