Tuesday Weld | |
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Weld (center) with Marilyn Maxwell and Gary Lockwood in Bus Stop, 1961. | |
Born | Susan Ker Weld August 27, 1943 |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1955–present |
Spouse(s) | Pinchas Zukerman (1985–1998) Dudley Moore (1975–1980) Claude Harz (1965–1971) |
Children | Patrick H. Moore (b. 1976) Natasha Harz (b. 1966) |
Tuesday Weld (born August 27 1943) is an American movie and television actress. She began her acting career as a child. She has acted in many television programs and movies.
Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in New York City. After her father died, her mother put her to work as a child model. Weld's first acting job was on television at age 12. She was in a movie the same year with a small role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama, The Wrong Man. The pressures of her career, however, resulted in a nervous breakdown at age nine, alcoholism by age 12, and a suicide attempt around the same time.[1]
Weld's mother did not like her teenage daughter's affairs with older men, such as actor John Ireland. In 1961, she had an off-screen romance with Elvis Presley, her costar in Wild in the Country.