Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver
Weaver at the 2024 Venice Film Festival
Born	Susan Alexandra Weaver (1949-10-08) October 8, 1949 (age 74) New York City, U.S.
Occupations	Actress film producer
Years active	1971–present
Works	Full list
Spouse	Jim Simpson ​ (m. 1984)​
Children	1
Relatives	Pat Weaver (father) Elizabeth Inglis (mother) Doodles Weaver (uncle)
Awards	Full list

Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver (/sɪˈɡɔːrni/; born October 8, 1949) is an American actress and film producer. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her portrayals of strong women in science fiction and horror franchises, and for her roles in blockbusters. Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films.^[1][2][3] She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.

Born in New York City, Weaver is the daughter of American television executive Pat Weaver and English actress Elizabeth Inglis. She made her screen debut with a minor role in the romantic comedy film Annie Hall (1977) before her breakthrough role as Ellen Ripley in the science fiction horror film Alien (1979). She reprised the role in the sequel Aliens (1986), later installments Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997), and the video game Alien: Isolation (2014). Ripley is regarded as a significant female protagonist in cinema history, and Weaver's performance in Aliens received a landmark Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Her other franchise roles include Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters films (1984–2021) and Dr. Grace Augustine / Kiri in the Avatar film series (2009–present), which rank among the highest-grossing films of all time.

In 1989, Weaver netted two Golden Globes and two simultaneous Oscar nominations for her roles as Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist (1988) and a young associate in Working Girl (1988). She also became the first actor to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year, and shared the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in a three-way tie.^[a] She won the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Ice Storm (1997). Her other film roles include The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Dave (1993), Death and the Maiden (1994), Copycat (1995), Galaxy Quest (1999), The Village (2004), Vantage Point (2008), You Again (2010), Chappie (2015), A Monster Calls (2016), Call Jane (2022), and Master Gardener (2022). She also had voice roles in the animated Pixar films WALL-E (2008) and Finding Dory (2016).

On stage, Weaver's Broadway performances include The Constant Wife (1975), Hurlyburly (1984), and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013). Her performance in Hurlyburly earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. On television, she received Emmy Award nominations for her roles in the horror film Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1998), the drama film Prayers for Bobby (2009), the political miniseries Political Animals (2013), and for narrating the National Geographic documentary Secrets of the Whales (2021). Her other television projects include the Marvel action miniseries The Defenders (2017) and the drama miniseries The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023), the latter of which also featured her as an executive producer.

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