塔斯黛·韦尔德

生于纽约市，父亲早亡。3岁时已成为服装模特儿，后参加电视剧的演出。10岁时开始酗酒，两年后甚至于想过自杀。1956年她13岁时开始登上银幕，以扮演天使和性感女郎见长，但却未能引起关注。之后一段时间里，她的人生再次遭遇坎坷，离婚并遭火灾。直到60年代中期，她才声誉卓著，成为众人崇拜的偶像。1977年以《欲海花》获奥斯卡最佳女配角提名。其它主要影片有《因为他们年轻》、《性感女郎上大学》、《单身公寓》、《赌王卫冕战》、《毒玫瑰》、《一家之主》等。

塔斯黛·韦尔德

Susan Ker Weld was born on August 27, 1943, in New York City. When her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, died three years later at the age of 49, the cute little girl, whose name by then had somehow been transmogrified into "Tuesday", took over the role of the family breadwinner, which included her mother Yosene Balfour Ker. She became a successful child model, posing for advertisements and mail-order catalogs. Her work and the burden of responsibilityestrangedher from her mother Aileen and her two elder siblings and catapulted the preteen girl into adulthood. At nine years of age she suffered a nervous breakdown, at ten she started heavy drinking. One year later she began to have affairs, and at the age of twelve she tried to commit suicide. In 1956 she debuted in the low-budget exploitation movieRock, Rock, Rock(1956) and decided to become an actress. After numerous TV appearances in New York she went to Hollywood in 1958 and was cast forRally 'Round the Flag, Boys!(1958), something of a breakthrough for her. Over the next few years Tuesday became Hollywood's queen of teen, playing mainly precocious sex kittens. Her wild private life added to the entertainment of her fans. Critics acknowledged her talent, directors approved of her professionalism, and in the late 1960s she even managed to grow out of her child/woman image and find more demanding roles - she had been "sweet little 16" for about 16 years. However, Tuesday Weld didn't achieve first-magnitude stardom. Maybe she was just unlucky with her selection of jobs (she turned downLolita(1962),Bonnie and Clyde(1967),True Grit(1969),Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969), among others); maybe her independence-loving mind made her instinctivelyshrinkback from the restraints of super stardom. In any case, she kept on performing well in films that had either not much flair or not much success.From the mid-'70s on she focused more and more on made-for-TV movies, which was ironic in that the best (Once Upon a Time in America(1984)) and the most successful (Falling Down(1993)) films that came her way happened after her big-screen career had pretty much petered out