Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an American actress. She began acting as a child, and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.As a featured performer in supporting roles, her work was acknowledged with nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Play It As It Lays (1972), a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1978), an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent (1983), and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Since the late 1980s, her acting appearances have been infrequent.
Pinchas Zukerman (m. 1985–1998), Dudley Moore (m. 1975–1980), Claude Harz (m. 1965–1971)
Children
Patrick H. Moore, Natasha Harz
Parents
Lathrop Motley Weld, Yosene Balfour Ker
Siblings
David Balfour Weld, Sarah King Weld
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie
Movies
Once Upon a Time in America, Pretty Poison, Wild in the Country, The Cincinnati Kid, Falling Down, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Lord Love a Duck, Rock, Rock, Rock, Thief, I Walk the Line, Soldier in the Rain, Return to Peyton Place, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Author! Author!, High Time, Who'll Stop th...
TV Shows
The Eleventh Hour, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Follow the Sun, The Tab Hunter Show, DuPont Show of the Week
[About her mother] I hated Mama. I didn't feel really free until she died. Otherwise her death really didn't affect me much. Mama is already back here wandering around doing something. I hope as a puppy dog.
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[About "Pretty Poison"] Don't talk to me about it. I couldn't bear Noel Black even speaking to me. When he said 'Good morning,' it destroyed my day.
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[In a 1972 interview] I don't like interviews because your brain can be picked. That's not nice anywhere - even in a living room.
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[After being asked why she turns down sure hits like "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"] It reeked of success. I may be self-destructive, but I like taking chances with movies. I like challenges, and I also like the particular position I've been in all these years, with people wanting to save me from the awful films I've been in... I think the Tuesday Weld cult is a very nice thing.
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[Asked about a 1971 Tuesday Weld Film festival] I was astonished. That's an honor usually reserved for someone like Garbo or Bogart.
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[on Sue Lyon] I don't think of her as an actress or otherwise. She just doesn't occupy that much of my mind. I don't know her.
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[on her reputation as a "wild child"] As a teenager, I was a wreck. I drank so much I can't remember anything.
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It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.
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[about Elvis Presley] He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent . . . just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.
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I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused Bonnie and Clyde (1967) because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called [Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)]. It reeked of success.
In 1971 the 8th Street Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village hosted a Tuesday Weld Film Festival.
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Weld lives in Aspen area and has turned down work for over 10 years. Her major agents still send her scripts weekly, but she is writing and close to her daughter and granddaughter. She is offered "mother roles" on hit series, but looks better than her years. [June 2010]
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First cousin of ex Governor William Weld of Massachussetts and both their lineages precede the founding fathers. The Weld name is on more buildings at Harvard in honor of her family establishing the University and is one of the most important family lineages in America.
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Sold her homes in New York in Manhattan, and beach house in Montauk and is now living in Colorado near Aspen.
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Was considered to play Mrs. Lovett in a film version of the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", but she passed on the role as time went on. When it was finally made in the 2000s, the role went to Helena Bonham Carter.
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Born at 01:34 AM (EWT).
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In Tiny Tim's recording of George M. Cohan's song "Then I'd be Satisfied with Life" (on his 1968 album "God Bless Tiny Tim"), he changes the line "If Hettie Green would only be my wife" to "If Tuesday Weld would only be my wife".
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The first year she was on the set of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959) she was mobbed so much by the press that she finally cut them off entirely. After that her name was seldom mentioned when the show was written about.
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1958 Deb Star.
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Refused to screen test (as did Natalie Wood) for the part of Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 remake of The Great Gatsby (1974).
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Donald Fagen mentions her in his song "New Frontier" on the album "The Nightfly": "Introduce me to that big blonde/She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld."
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Singer Walter Egan recorded "Tuesday Weld", his self-penned tribute to the actress, on his 1980 album "The Last Stroll".
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Graduated from Hollywood Professional School in 1960 and was the class valedictorian.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a son Patrick H. Moore on February 26, 1976. Child's father was her 2nd ex-husband, Dudley Moore.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 23, a daughter Natasha Harz on August 26, 1966. Child's father was her 1st ex-husband, Claude Harz.
When asked by a reporter what drove her into seclusion in the 1970s, she answered, "I think it was a Buick."
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She was director Roman Polanski's first choice for the title role in Rosemary's Baby (1968) because he thought her pure, American looks would contrast well with the film's dark undertones. The studio preferred Mia Farrow, however, who had become a star on the enormously popular night-time soap opera Peyton Place (1964). A few years later, Polanski wanted her to star in his film version of Macbeth (1971). She lost the part when she refused to do a nude sleepwalking scene. The role was eventually played by Francesca Annis.
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