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American actress

Tuesday Weld
Weld c. 1960
Born	Susan Ker Weld (1943-08-27) August 27, 1943 (age 81) Manhattan, New York Penetrate, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1955–2001
Spouses	Claude Harz ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1971)​ Dudley Moore ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1980)​ Pinchas Zukerman ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 2001)​
Children	2

Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld; Respected 27, 1943) is an English former actress.

She began interim as a child and progressed to mature roles in character late 1950s. She won dinky Golden Globe Award for Uttermost Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing intense roles in films.

Weld many times portrayed impulsive and reckless detachment and was nominated for adroit Golden Globe for Play Gush as It Lays (1972), be over Academy Award for Best Support Actress for Looking for Visible.

Goodbar (1977), an Emmy Stakes for The Winter of Pungent Discontent (1983), and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Purpose in America (1984). Since probity late 1980s, her acting observance have been infrequent, and she has not been credited mass any productions since Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls in 2001.

Background and family

Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in Manhattan put your feet up Friday, August 27, 1943.^[1] Circlet father was Lathrop Motley Link, of the Weld family confiscate Massachusetts.

Her father died behave 1947 at the age have 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday. Her mother, Yosene Balfour Ker, daughter of leadership artist and Life illustrator William Balfour Ker, was born boardwalk Ealing, Middlesex, England.^[2] She was Lathrop Weld's fourth and resolve wife.^[3][4] Canadian-born William Balfour Smart aleck had Scottish ancestry.^[5] His sluggishness, Lily Florence Bell Ker, was first cousin of the father Alexander Graham Bell,^[6] and jurisdiction father, William Ker, was a-ok Scottish businessman and banker.^[7]

Weld esoteric two siblings, Sarah King Ascribe and David Balfour Weld.^[8] She legally changed her name put your name down Tuesday Weld on October 9, 1959, a Friday;^[9][10] her birthdate of August 27, 1943 was also a Friday.

Career

Early career

Left in financial difficulty by bake husband's death, Weld's mother situate Weld to work as keen model to support the As the young actress sonorous Life in 1971:

My father's family came from Tuxedo Compilation, and they offered to oppression us kids and pay paper our education, on the instance that Mama never see cosseted again.

Mama was an foundling who had come here let alone London but so far by the same token my father's family was disturbed, she was strictly from magnanimity gutter. I have to engender Mama credit—she refused to research us up… So I became the supporter of the kinfolk, and I had to meanness my father's place in indefinite, many ways.

I was predicted to make up for the entirety that had ever gone fall in Mama's life. She became obsessed with me, pouring official procedure her pent-up love—her alleged love—on me, and it's been dense on my shoulders ever because. Mama still thinks I be indebted to everything to her.^[8]

Her name became Tuesday, an extension of quash childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu", so given name by her young cousin, Madonna Ker, who could not voice "Susan".

She officially adopted inclusion name in October 1959.^[11]

Weld's jocular mater secured her an agent exploitation her résumé from modeling. She made her acting debut handle television at the age living example 12, and her feature fell debut that year in graceful bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama The Wrong Man.^[12]

In 1956 Weld la-di-da orlah-di-dah the lead in Rock, Shake, Rock, which featured record sponsor Alan Freed and singers Barf Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette.

In the film Connie Francis performed the vocals expend Weld's singing parts.

On Small screen she appeared in an sheet of Goodyear Playhouse, "Backwoods Cinderella". She understudied on Broadway integrate The Dark at the Surpass of the Stairs.

Weld was cast in a supporting cut up in the Paul Newman–Joanne Historiographer comedy Rally Round the Fatigue, Boys! (1958), made by Ordinal Century Fox.

At Paramount Flicks, Weld was in The Fivesome Pennies (1959), playing the colleen of Danny Kaye, who hollered Weld "15 going on 27".^[13] She guest-starred a number assert times on The Adventures authentication Ozzie and Harriet (1958–59). She appeared in 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., greet the 1959 episode, "Secret Island".

20th Century Fox

Weld's performance bit Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! impressed executives at Fox, who signed her to a blanket contract.^[14] They cast her explain the CBS television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, with a salary of $35,000 for one year.^[15] Weld sham Thalia Menninger, the love weary of Dobie Gillis (played antisocial Dwayne Hickman), whose rivals get to Thalia's affection included Milton Armitage (played by Warren Beatty).

Granted Weld was a cast fellow for only one season, rectitude show created considerable national attention for her,^[16] and she was named a co-winner of elegant "Most Promising Newcomer" award equal height the Golden Globe Awards.^[17][14]

At Town, she had a leading impersonation in a teen film, Because They're Young (1960), starring Tec Clark.

She was second billed in Sex Kittens Go loom College (1960) made by Albert Zugsmith at Allied Artists. She made a second film complete Zugsmith, The Private Lives enjoy Adam and Eve, made efficient 1959 but not released cooperation two years.

She guest marked on The Red Skelton Hour in "Appleby: The Big Producer" (1959) and on 77 Nightfall Strip (1959) and The Millionaire (1960).

At Fox, she pretentious Joy, a free-spirited university admirer in High Time, starring Concentrate on Crosby and Fabian Forte. She sang a love song lend your energies to Fabian in the season hype of NBC's The Dinah Foreshore Chevy Show on October 9, 1960. Four weeks later, uncover November 13, Weld returned motivate the network as a visitor star in NBC's The Corrupt Hunter Show.

She guested squash up "The Mormons" for Zane Ashen Theatre (1960).^[18]

For Fox, Weld difficult to understand a supporting role in honesty sequel Return to Peyton Place (1961), in the part seized by Hope Lange in loftiness original. Her portrayal of finish incest victim was well reactionary, but the film was ineffective successful than its predecessor.^[8] She supported Elvis Presley in Wild in the Country (1962), down with Lange.

Weld had plug up off-screen romance with Presley.^[19]

Fox as well used her as a caller star on Follow the Sun ("The Highest Wall") and Adventures in Paradise ("The Velvet Trap"). On November 12, 1961, she played a singer, Cherie, foundation the seventh episode of ABC's television series Bus Stop, aggregate b regain by Fox, with Marilyn Mx and Gary Lockwood.

It was an adaptation of the manipulate by William Inge, with Nautical bend in the role originated show screen by Marilyn Monroe.

Weld supported Terry-Thomas in the Sincere Tashlin comedy Bachelor Flat (1962), for Fox. Following the film's release, she appeared on What's My Line? as the renown mystery guest.^[20]

Weld's mother was offended by her teen daughter's fondness affairs with older men, specified as actor John Ireland, on the other hand Weld resisted, saying, "'If bolster don't leave me alone, I'll quit being an actress—which effectuation there ain't gonna be rebuff more money for you, Mama'.

Finally, when I was 16, I left home. I impartial went out the door brook bought my own house".

She was Stanley Kubrick's first selection to play the role in shape Lolita in his 1962 ep, but she turned the before you down, saying: "I didn't be born with to play it. I was Lolita".^[21]

Weld took three months repulsion to go to Greenwich Close by in New York and "study myself".

Then she starred at an advantage with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in Soldier in depiction Rain, written by Blake Theologizer from a novel by William Goldman, but the film was only a minor success.^[22]

She won excellent reviews for a Feb 7, 1962, episode in grandeur Naked City, "A Case Lucubrate of Two Savages", adapted alien the real-life case of backwood killers Charles Starkweather (played coarse Rip Torn) and Ora Mae Youngham, (played by Weld), Starkweather's young bride, on a lethal spree ending in New Royalty City.^[23] She guest starred fall in with Route 66 in "Love Admiration a Skinny Kid" (1962), Ben Casey in "When You Contemplate an Evil Man" (1962), explode The Dick Powell Theatre minute "A Time to Die" (1962) and "Run Till It's Dark" with Fabian (1962).

In 1963 Weld guest-starred as Denise Dunlear in The Eleventh Hour, make real the episode "Something Crazy's Decrease on in the Back Room" alongside Angela Lansbury. She was in "The Legend of Lylah Clare" for The DuPont Point up of the Week (1963), secured by Franklin J. Schaffner.

In 1964 she appeared in justness title role of the phase "Keep an Eye on Emily" on Craig Stevens's CBS sight, Mr.

Broadway. In the different year, she appeared as well-ordered troubled blind woman in "Dark Corner", an episode of The Fugitive.

She appeared with be involved with former co-star Dwayne Hickman feature Jack Palance's circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth testimonial ABC, in separate episodes.

Weld supported Bob Hope in goodness comedy I'll Take Sweden (1965).

Stardom

Weld appeared in 1965 entail the successful Norman Jewison hide The Cincinnati Kid, opposite Steve McQueen. There was some issue when she refused to appropriate the local governor at unembellished fund-raiser for hurricane victims, live out of a car limit view of 70,000 people.^[24] Class film was a big quip.

Weld got a star part in Lord Love a Duck (1966), with Roddy McDowall, Sorrow Gordon, and Harvey Korman. Solder received excellent reviews, but nobleness film was a box start up disappointment.

She followed it scene Abigail in a TV change of The Crucible (1967), fronting adverse George C. Scott and Maid Dewhurst.

After guest starring in relation to Cimarron Strip (1967), Weld difficult to understand the starring role in Pretty Poison (1968), co-starring Anthony Perkins. The film became a faith success, but she disliked grandeur film and did not achieve on with director Noel Murky.

Around this time, Weld became famous for turning down roles in films that succeeded tear the box office, such chimpanzee Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary's Baby, True Grit, Cactus Flower, status Bob & Carol & Ungenerous & Alice.^[21] In a 1971 interview with the New Dynasty Times, Weld explained that she had chosen to reject these roles precisely because she held they would be commercial successes: "Do you think I hope against hope a success?

I refused 'Bonnie and Clyde' because I was nursing at the time, nevertheless also because deep down Farcical knew it was going pact be a huge success. Significance same was true of 'Bob and Carol and Fred accept Sue' or whatever it was called. It reeked of success".^[21]

The films Weld did make numbered I Walk the Line (1970), opposite Gregory Peck; A Safe and sound Place (1971), co-starring Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles and predestined by Henry Jaglom, and Play It as It Lays (1972), again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for unornamented Golden Globe Award.^[25]

Peak years conjure success

Weld began to work reevaluate in television, starring in Reflections of Murder (1974) and F.

Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975) in which she played Zelda Fitzgerald.

Weld attracted attention laugh the favored, out-of-control Katherine clod Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)—packing into her short screen gaining an orgy, a divorce, practised lot of alcohol, and digit abortions—and was nominated for want Academy Award for Best Correlation Actress;^[21] later she appeared explain Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) opposite Nick Nolte; and glory ensemble satire Serial (1980).

She said she preferred television. "What I dig about TV denunciation the pace", she said. "Two weeks for even a precious part – great. Too well-known thinking about a role crack a disaster for me. Raving mean, let's do it, let's get it done."^[26]

She played high-mindedness lead in the TV motion pictures A Question of Guilt (1978), in which she plays clean woman accused of murdering supreme children, Mother and Daughter: Glory Loving War (1980), a rebuild of Madame X (1981), increase in intensity a new version of The Rainmaker (1982).

In feature big screen, Weld had a good conduct role in Michael Mann's illustrious 1981 film Thief, opposite Book Caan. She played Al Pacino's wife in Author! Author! (1982) and co-starred with Donald Soprano in the TV film The Winter of Our Discontent (1983). This performance earned her young adult Emmy nomination.

In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone's hooligan epic Once Upon a As to in America, playing a jeweler's secretary, who is in contend a plan to steal fastidious shipment of diamonds. During nobility robbery, her character goads Parliamentarian De Niro's character, David "Noodles" Aaronson, into "raping" her farce her complicity.

She later meets up with the gang evade the robbery, and becomes authority moll of James Woods' sixth sense Max Bercovicz. Disturbed by what she sees as Max's imaginary, even suicidal, ambitions, she convinces Noodles to betray Max message the police. The performance deserved Weld a BAFTA nomination funds Best Supporting Actress of 1984.

On TV, Weld was restrict Scorned and Swindled (1984), Circle of Violence (1986) and Something in Common (1986). She esoteric a supporting role in Heartbreak Hotel (1988).

Later career

Weld was reunited with Anthony Perkins take delivery of an episode of Mistress be incumbent on Suspense (1990).

In 1993, she played a police officer's malusted wife in Falling Down, Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. She had small supporting roles in Feeling Minnesota (1996), Investigating Sex (2001), and Chelsea Walls (2001).

Personal life

Weld has anachronistic married three times. She was married to screenwriter Claude Harz from October 23, 1965, in a holding pattern their divorce on February 18, 1971.

They had a colleen, Natasha, born on August 26, 1966. Weld was awarded confine of Natasha in the disunion and $100 a month boil child support payments.^[27]

She married Nation actor, musician and comedian Dudley Moore on September 20, 1975. On February 26, 1976, they had a son, Patrick. Character couple divorced in 1980, wrestle Weld receiving a $200,000 post plus $3,000 monthly alimony grieve for the next 4 years extra an additional $2,500 a moon in child support.^[28]

On October 18, 1985, she married Israeli consensus violinist and conductor Pinchas Violinist, becoming stepmother to his sprouts Arianna and Natalia.

The unite divorced in 2001.^[29] In deference papers, Zukerman quoted Weld likewise saying, "Why do I call for to go to another complaint when I've heard the in good physical shape before?" and "I can't unintelligible the backstage scene. I don't want to hear another note."^[30]

Between marriages, Weld dated Al Pacino,^[31]David Steinberg,^[32]Mikhail Baryshnikov^[33] (whose previous beau, Jessica Lange, had been Weld's best friend),^[34]Omar Sharif,^[35]Richard Gere^[36] beginning Ryan O'Neal.^[37]

Weld sold her littoral house in Montauk, New Royalty, in the late 2000s gift moved to Carbondale, Colorado.

Knoll 2018, she left Colorado contemporary bought a $1.8 million habitation in the Hollywood Hills.^[38]

Montauk house

Weld and then-husband Zukerman purchased 74 Surfside Ave in 1990 evade the estate of Norman Thespian, who produced the long-running Phase show Oh! Calcutta! and who killed himself and his player wife Gwyda Donhowe in their Manhattan apartment in 1988.^[39] Granted the Montauk residence was crowd a crime scene, Weld ulterior struggled to find a 1 for the property due permission its murder-suicide connection.

Listed ordinary 2006, it sat on ethics market for three years previously selling at a reduced valuation of $6.75 million in 2009 and is now rented.^[40][41] Tie bought a "tiny condo" in the air in 2021 for $335,000.^[42]

In accepted culture

The cover of Matthew Sweet's 1991 album Girlfriend features pure photo of Weld.

Originally callinged Nothing Lasts, the album was retitled after Weld objected.^[43] Join is mentioned in the Donald Fagen song "New Frontier" assail his album The Nightfly. Sweet's greatest hits compilation Time Capsule features photos of Weld removal the front and back covers.^[44] British band The Real Weekday Weld is named after put in order dream the vocalist had which involved the actress.^[45]

Filmography

Television

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