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Tuesday Weld
Actress
Female
Born
Aug 27, 1943
Age
69
Hometown
New York City, Ne...
Other Names
Weld, Susan Ker
Tuesday Weld is an American actress. Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade she established… Read More
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Claude HarzMarried 1965 - 1971
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CHILDHOOD
1943
Birth
Born on August 27, 1943.
1947
3 Years Old
Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in New York City. Her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, was a member of the Weld family of Massachusetts; he died in 1947, shortly before her fourth birthday.
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TEENAGE
Using Weld's résumé from modelling, her mother secured an agent and Tuesday (an extension of her childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu", given to her by her young cousin, Mary Ker, who could not pronounce "Susan" yet) Weld made her acting debut on television at age 12 and her feature film debut the same year in a bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama, The Wrong Man.
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1959
15 Years Old
In 1959, having appeared as "Dorothy" in The Five Pennies, she was cast as Thalia Menninger in the CBS television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
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1960
16 Years Old
She was put under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox and appeared in feature films and episdodes of Fox-produced TV series. In 1960, she appeared as Joy, a free-spirited university student in High Time, starring Bing Crosby and Fabian.
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On November 12, 1961, she played a young singer, Cherie, in the seventh episode of ABC's television series Bus Stop, with Marilyn Maxwell and Gary Lockwood.
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In 1963, she guest-starred as Denise Dunlear on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in the episode "Something Crazy's Going on the Back Room".
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TWENTIES
In 1965, she appeared in the successful Norman Jewison film The Cincinnati Kid, opposite Steve McQueen.
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1971
27 Years Old
Of the marriage, Weld told Guy Flatley of The New York Times in 1971, "Mama hated my husband — she’s a jealous lover, you know.
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THIRTIES
1975
31 Years Old
She married British actor, musician, and comedian Dudley Moore in 1975. In 1976 they had a son, Patrick, an actor, director, and editor. They divorced in 1980.
1982
38 Years Old
Weld is mentioned in Donald Fagan's song "New Frontier" from his 1982 certified Platinum and Grammy-nominated album The Nightfly.
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FORTIES
1984
40 Years Old
In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, playing a jeweler's secretary who is in on a plan to steal a shipment of diamonds.
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1985
41 Years Old
In 1985 she married Israeli concert violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman; they divorced in 1998.
1993
49 Years Old
In 1993, she played a police officer's neurotic wife in Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall.
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