The invention discloses extracellular expression and application of tyrosine phenol lyase and belongs to the technical field of biology. A method for extracellular expression includes: cloning high-activity tyrosine phenol lyase gene, co-expressing with signal peptide signal, converting Escherichia coli competent cells, and building a tyrosine phenol lyase extracellular secretion engineering strain mediated by signal peptide to realize extracellular expression, wherein obtained tyrosine phenol lyase fermentation liquid is used for converting and synthesizing tyrosine and derivatives. An extracellular expression mode is adopted to build the tyrosine phenol lyase engineering strain, and enzyme release quantity reaches higher than 50%, so that toxicity caused to cells due to excessive accumulation of protein in the cells is reduced, and total enzyme activity is improved by 36% when compared with common expression. Part of enzyme generated by fermentation is released into the fermentationliquid, thallus cells are high in permeability, contact of a substrate with enzyme is facilitated, and catalytic efficiency of the enzyme is improved substantially. The fermentation liquid can be directly adopted to catalyze the substrate to product L-tyrosine and the derivatives, and the cells do not need to be broken to extract pure enzyme for reaction, so that using cost of the enzyme is saved.