Tuesday Weld
Biography
Tuesday Weld is an American retired actress who started as a child model and made her television acting debut at 12. Born in Manhattan, she moved from youthful parts into mature roles in the late 1950s and won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. She became known for playing impulsive and reckless women in dramas such as The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Pretty Poison (1968), I Walk the Line (1970), Play It as It Lays (1972), and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), the last earning her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Other notable films include Thief (1981), Author! Author! (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), which brought a BAFTA nomination, and Falling Down (1993). She also received an Emmy nomination for the television film The Winter of Our Discontent (1983). Her acting appearances grew infrequent after the 1980s, and her last role was in Chelsea Walls in 2001.
83years old
Turns 84 on August 27in 299 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Susan Ker Weld (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 24
- Career span
- 61 years1956 to 2017
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A role that slipped away
Weld was Stanley Kubrick's first choice to play Lolita in his 1962 film. She declined the role, explaining that she did not have to play it because she was Lolita.
First role
Weld first acted on television when she was 12. That same year she had a small part in The Wrong Man, Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 crime drama.
Tuesday Weld movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Seven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Max Showalter's page
Richard Bright's page
Also two films together1 more actor
- Peter BonerzCircle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986) and Serial (1980)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Tuesday Weld's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$121 million
8 of the 24 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 24 films: 8 worldwide figure; 4 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 10 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 4US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 10Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$41M33.9% of the total
- 2$23M18.6% of the total
- 3$15M12.6% of the total
- 4$13M10.9% of the total
- 5$11M9.5% of the total
- 6$9.9M8.2% of the total
- 7$5.5M4.6% of the total
- 8$2.1M1.7% of the total
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