Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress perhaps best known for her portrayal of Ripley in Alien (1979) and its sequels. Weaver is also notable for her stature, standing 5 ft 11½ in (182 cm) tall.

Biography

Susan began using the name Sigourney Weaver in 1963, after a character in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. She attended high school in New York City and later studied English at Stanford University, then drama at Yale where she appeared in original plays by friend and classmate Christopher Durang.

She played the role of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. She then reprised the role in all three sequels: Aliens, Alien³, and Resurrection. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for portraying Ripley in Aliens.

She is also well known for playing Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. She also played the role of the agorophobic criminal psychologist Dr Helen Hudson in the 1995 movie Copycat.

She is one of only ten actors and actresses to have received two Academy Award nominations in the same year. Weaver received a Best Actress nomination for her role as gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey in The Story of Dian Fossey and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as Katharine Parker in Working Girl opposite Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith. She did not win either one but she did win a Golden Globe for each role.

She is the daughter of the late NBC television executive Pat Weaver and his wife the former Desirée Hawkins Ingles, a former British actress. Sigourney Weaver is also a niece of comedian and actor Doodles Weaver. Since 1984 she has been married to theater director Jim Simpson (of The Flea Theater) and they have one child, Charlotte Simpson (born 1990).

Partial filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2006
	Infamous	Babe Paley
	The TV Set	Lenny	Filming
	Happily N'Ever After	Rieda	Post-production; voice
	Snowcake	Linda Freeman
2004	Imaginary Heroes	Sandy Travis
2004	The Village	Alice Hunt
2003	Holes	Warden Walker
2002	Tadpole	Eve Grubman
2001	Heartbreakers	Max Conners/Angela
1999	Galaxy Quest	Gwen DeMarco/Lieutenant Tawny Madison
1997	The Ice Storm	Janey Carver
1997	Resurrection	Ellen Ripley
1995	Jeffrey	Debra Moorhouse
1995	Copycat	Helen Hudson
1994	Death and the Maiden	Paulina Escobar
1993	Dave	Ellen Mitchell
1992	Conquest of Paradise	Queen Isabella
1992	Alien³	Ellen Ripley
1989	Ghostbusters II	Dana Barrett
1988	Working Girl	Katharine Parker
1988	Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey	Dian Fossey
1986	Aliens	Ellen Ripley
1986	Half Moon Street	Dr. Lauren Slaughter
1985	Une femme ou deux	Jessica Fitzgerald
1984	Ghostbusters	Dana Barrett
1982	The Year of Living Dangerously	Jilly Bryant
1981	Eyewitness	Tony Sokolow
1979	Alien	Ellen Ripley
1977	Annie Hall	Alvy's Date Outside Theater

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Biography

Partial filmography

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