Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld was born on Aug 27, 1943 in USA. Tuesday Weld's big-screen debut came with Rock Rock Rock! directed by Will Price in 1956. Tuesday Weld is known for Falling Down directed by Joel Schumacher, Michael Douglas stars as D-Fens and Robert Duvall as Prendergast. Tuesday Weld has got 3 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Tuesday Weld achieved is The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards. The upcoming new movie Tuesday Weld plays is Intimate Affairs which will be released on Aug 09, 2002.

Susan Ker Weld was born on August 27, 1943 (Friday), in New York City. When her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, died three years later at the age of 49, the cute little girl, whose name by then had somehow been transmogrified into "Tuesday", took over the role of the family breadwinner. She became a successful child model, posing for advertisements and mail-order catalogs. Her work and the burden of responsibility estranged her from her mother Aileen, her two elder siblings, and catapulted the preteen girl into adulthood. At nine years of age, she suffered a nervous breakdown; at ten, she started heavy drinking; one year later, she began to have love affairs, all of which led to a suicide attempt at age twelve. In 1956 she debuted in the low-budget exploitation movie Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) and decided to become an actress. After numerous TV appearances in New York she went to Hollywood in 1958 and was cast for La brune brûlante (1958), something of a breakthrough for her. Over the next few years Tuesday became Hollywood's queen of teen, playing mainly precocious sex kittens. Her wild private life added to the entertainment of her fans. Critics acknowledged her talent, directors approved of her professionalism, and in the mid-1970s she even managed to grow out of her child/woman image and find more demanding roles - she had been "sweet little 16" for about 16 years. However, Tuesday Weld didn't achieve first-magnitude stardom. Maybe she was just unlucky with her selection of jobs (she turned down Lolita (1962), Bonnie et Clyde (1967), 100 dollars pour un shérif (1969), Fleur de cactus (1969), among others); maybe her independence-loving mind made her instinctively shrink back from the restraints of super stardom. In any case, she kept on performing well in films that had either not much flair or not much success. From the early '80s on she focused more and more on made-for-TV movies, which was ironic in that the best (Il était une fois en Amérique (1984)) and the most successful (Chute libre (1993)) films that came her way happened as her big-screen career was already petering out.