Tuesday Weld
Biography
Tuesday Weld is an American actress born on August 27, 1943, in New York City, New York, USA. Also known as Susan Ker Weld, she began her acting career as a child before transitioning to more mature roles in the late 1950s. Over her career, she has accumulated 72 known acting credits in movies and television shows. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960 and established a career playing dramatic roles in films throughout the following decade. Her work as a featured performer in supporting roles earned her further recognition, including nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Play It As It Lays in 1972, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr. Goodbar in 1978, an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent in 1983, and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America in 1984.
Career overview
Tuesday Weld is an American actress born on August 27, 1943, in New York City, New York. She began her acting career as a child before transitioning to more mature roles during the late 1950s. Her early work was recognized when she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a professional career playing dramatic roles in films.
As a featured performer in supporting roles, her work received widespread acknowledgment through several major award nominations. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Play It As It Lays in 1972. She subsequently received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr. Goodbar in 1978, an Emmy Award nomination for The Winter of Our Discontent in 1983, and a BAFTA nomination for Once Upon a Time in America in 1984.
Throughout her career, Weld accumulated seventy-two known acting credits on screen. Her professional trajectory reflects a steady presence in the film industry, transitioning successfully from a child actor to a respected dramatic performer in supporting roles across multiple decades.
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- Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) as Self (archive footage)
- Dominick Dunne: After the Party (2008) as Self (archive footage)
- Intimate Affairs (2002) as Sasha
- Chelsea Walls (2001) as Greta
- Feeling Minnesota (1996) as Nora Clayton
- Falling Down (1993) as Mrs. Prendergast
- Chillers (1990) as Jessica
- Heartbreak Hotel (1988) as Marie Wolfe
- Something in Common (1986) as Shelly Grant
- Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986) as Georgia Benfield
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) as Carol
- Scorned and Swindled (1984) as Sharon Clark
- The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) as Margie Young-Hunt
- Author! Author! (1982) as Gloria Travalian
- The Rainmaker (1982) as Lizzie Curry
- Thief (1981) as Jessie
- Madame X (1981) as Holly Richardson
- Serial (1980) as Kate
- Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980) as Lillie Lloyd McCann
- Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) as Marge Converse
- A Question of Guilt (1978) as Doris Winters
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) as Katherine
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975) as Zelda Fitzgerald
- Reflections of Murder (1974) as Vicky
- Play It as It Lays (1972) as Maria Wyeth Lang
- A Safe Place (1971) as Susan / Noah
- I Walk the Line (1970) as Alma McCain
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- Pretty Poison (1968) as Sue Ann Stepanek
- Cimarron Strip (1967)
- The Crucible (1967) as Abigail Williams
- Lord Love a Duck (1966) as Barbara Ann Greene
- The Cincinnati Kid (1965) as Christian Rudd
- I'll Take Sweden (1965) as JoJo Holcomb
- The Fugitive (1963) as Mattie Braydon
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
- Soldier in the Rain (1963) as Bobby Jo Pepperdine
- A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1963) as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- The Eleventh Hour (1962) as Denise Dunlear
- Ben Casey (1961)
- The Dick Powell Show (1961) as Stacy Palmer
- The Dick Powell Show (1961) as Leslie Clark
- Bus Stop (1961) as Cherie
- Follow the Sun (1961) as Barbara Beaumont
- The DuPont Show of the Week (1961) as Elsie Brinkmann
- Wild in the Country (1961) as Noreen Braxton
- Return to Peyton Place (1961) as Selena Cross
- Bachelor Flat (1961) as Libby Bushmill / Libby Smith
- Route 66 (1960) as Miriam Moore
- The Tab Hunter Show (1960) as Ginny
- Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) as Jody
- Because They're Young (1960) as Anne Gregor
- High Time (1960) as Joy Elder
- The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) as Vangie Harper
- Adventures in Paradise (1959) as Gloria Dannora
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959) as Thalia Menninger
- The Five Pennies (1959) as Teenaged Dorothy Nichols
- Naked City (1958) as Ora Mae Youngham
- 77 Sunset Strip (1958)
- Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) as Comfort Goodpasture
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956) as Beth Lawson
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) as Self
- The Wrong Man (1956) as Giggly Girl (uncredited)
- Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) as Dori Graham
- The Millionaire (1955) as Beth Boland
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) as Cathy
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) as Ricky's Girlfriend
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) as Connie
- Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Margie Young-Hunt
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Bob Hope Show (1950) as Self
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Winner