Tuesday Knight

Tuesday Knight
Born	Tuesday Lynn Knight February 17, 1969
Occupation	Actress, Singer, Jewelry Designer
Years active	1984 -

Tuesday Lynn Knight (born February 17, 1969) is an American actress. The daughter of composer Baker Knight, she is perhaps best remembered for her role as Kristen Parker in the 1988 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Also an accomplished musician, Tuesday recorded the song "Nightmare," used during the film's opening credits. She appears as herself in the 1994 Wes Craven film Wes Craven's New Nightmare as well as the 2010 film Sex and the City 2.

Career

Television

In 1987, Knight appeared as Val on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She has also appeared in a number of television movies. Knight has made guest appearances various on TV series, including Fame (1984), The Facts of Life, Law & Order, and The X Files. She was also a series regular on the short-lived 1992 Aaron Spelling prime time soap opera 2000 Malibu Road.

• Fame (Suzi Detroit, 1984; episode: "The Monster That Devoured Las Vegas")
• General Hospital (Val, 1987)
• The Facts of Life (Amy, 1988; episode: "Let's Face the Music")
• Matlock (Abby Smith, 1989; episode: "The Starlet")
• 2000 Malibu Road (Joy Rule, 1992; series regular)
• Law & Order (Candy, 1995; episode: "Humiliation")
• Profiler (Morissa, 1996; episode: "I'll Be Watching You")
• The X-Files (Jackie Gurwitch, 1999; episode: "Trevor")

Filmography

• Promised a Miracle (1988) (TV)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (Kristen Parker, 1988)
• The Preppie Murder (1989) (TV)
• Teach 109 (1990)
• Who Killed Baby Jesus? (1992)
• The Prom (1992)
• Mistress (1992)
• Calendar Girl (1993)
• Cover Story' (1993)
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Herself, 1994)
• Cool and the Crazy (1994)
• The Babysitter (1995)
• Star Witness (1995)
• Strike Back (1995)
• Beast City (1996)
• The Fan (1996)
• The Hindsight (1996)
• The Cottonwood (1996)
• Telling Lies in America (1997)
• Brother (2000)
• Theory of the Leisure Class (2001)
• Daddy and Them (2001)
• Sweet Underground (2004)
• Diamond Zero a.k.a. IceMaker (video title) (2005)
• 'Sex and the City 2(2010)

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Knight, along with most of the Elm Street franchise alumni, is featured in a documentary, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, about New Line Cinema’s hit movie series. The documentary is directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch, produced by Thommy Hutson, and was hosted by Elm Street veteran Heather Langenkamp. The documentary wove the tale of how one of the most successful horror genre franchises came to be. It came out in May 2010.

Music

After working on the Quiet Riot album "Metal Health" as backing vocals, Tuesday released a solo album Tuesday Knight in 1987 on Parc/CBS Records. It contained a cover version of Prince's "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" The album's sole single was called "Out of Control." Her second album Here it Comes had more of a commercial success then her previous attempt. In 2001, Tuesday provided her voice for the song "If It Takes All Night" in the film The Theory of the Leisure Class. She later watched a performed by the David Bowie Tribute Band Space Oddity and joined them as Keyboardist and Backing vocals.

Knight's music is currently available for digital download on her Facebook page “Tuesday Knight Music Collection Page”.

Jewelry design

In 2000, Knight and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 co-star Lisa Wilcox founded the footwear jewelry company ToeBrights. Knight later started her own jewelry line called Tuesday's Hip Vintage.

External links

• Tuesday Knight at the Internet Movie Database