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Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her pioneering portrayals of action heroines in blockbusters and for her various roles in independent films. 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 Aw…
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Born 8 October 1949 · Q102124
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It was never important to me to display my sexuality. I didn't feel like I had to prove I was a babe to anyone. So I think maybe I always took parts based on the story and director, and very rarely on what the character was. (The roles) I get offered (are) isolated women. . . . It is easier for them to see me as a woman on my own. I can have a token love story, but in the end I'm gonna be this strong woman. Maybe it's harder for them to see me in a couples situation.
She sort of has some superficial resemblance, obviously, to Hillary Clinton but really Elaine has made some decisions that distinguish her from Mrs. Clinton — who we all admire
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“It was never important to me to display my sexuality. I didn't feel like I had to prove I was a babe to anyone. So I think maybe I always took parts based on the story and director, and very rarely on what the character was. (The roles) I get offered (are) isolated women. . . . It is easier for them to see me as a woman on my own. I can have a token love story, but in the end I'm gonna be this strong woman. Maybe it's harder for them to see me in a couples situation.”
“She sort of has some superficial resemblance, obviously, to Hillary Clinton but really Elaine has made some decisions that distinguish her from Mrs. Clinton — who we all admire”
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The Guardian: Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2026).
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It was announced that Weaver would be joining the cast of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Tomb Raider series for Amazon Prime Video in a key role
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The Guardian: Just Stop Oil activists interrupt Sigourney Weaver performance in The Tempest – video
The Guardian: Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence | Kate Maltby
The Guardian: Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut as Prospero evokes a storm of past Tempests
Awarded International Goya Award (2024).
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Weaver returned to the stage reprising her role as Masha in the one night benefit performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike alongside David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, and Linda Lavin at the Mitzi E
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The Guardian: Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana do underwater photoshoot for ocean conservation charity
The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain awarded her with the International Goya Award for "her impressive career full of unforgettable films and inspiring us by creating complex and strong female charac
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Weaver starred in and executive-produced the Australian miniseries The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
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The Guardian: ‘It’s got to be an experience, first and foremost’: James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet on the return of Avatar
The Guardian: ‘We pick up where we left off’: Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline on working together again
Variety reported that Weaver and Kevin Kline were set to reunite again (after Dave and The Ice Storm) for The Good House, a drama from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners and Universal Pictures
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Weaver confirmed that she would reprise her role as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was released on November 19, 2021
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Weaver voiced herself in a cameo in the Pixar film Finding Dory
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Weaver confirmed that she would reprise her role as Ellen Ripley in the new Alien film
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It was officially announced that an Alien sequel would be made, with Blomkamp slated to direct
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In a 2015 interview, Curtis admitted to Weaver that she never saw Alien in its entirety because she was too scared.
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And 2017, Weaver played an American tourist in two episodes of the British television series Doc Martin
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Co-starred in Neill Blomkamp's science-fiction film Chappie, and stated that she would agree to appear in an Alien sequel, provided that Blomkamp directs
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Weaver reprised the role of Ripley for the first time in seventeen years by voicing the character in the video game Alien: Isolation
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Weaver returned to Broadway in the Christopher Durang play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013) alongside David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, and Billy Magnussen at the John Golden Theatre
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Took a leading role as Elaine Barrish, the recently divorced Secretary of State and former First Lady and Governor of Illinois who fights various political opponents in the USA Network political miniseries Political
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Awarded Rachel Carson Award (2011).
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Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first television film Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award
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Reunited with Aliens director James Cameron for his film Avatar, playing a major role as Dr
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In the Rainbow Room, Weaver hosted the annual gala of the Trickle up Program, a non-profit organization focussing on those (mainly women and disabled people) in extreme poverty
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Weaver was featured as the voice of the ship's computer in the Pixar and Disney film WALL•E
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Voiced a narrating role in the animated film The Tale of Despereaux (2008), based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo
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Weaver returned to Rwanda for the BBC special Gorillas Revisited, in which Weaver reunites with the Rwandan apes from the film Gorillas in the Mist, some twenty years later
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Was the narrator for the American version of the BBC Emmy Award-winning documentary series Planet Earth; the original British series version was narrated by David Attenborough
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Weaver appeared in the comedy Heartbreakers playing the lead role of a con-artist alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Gene Hackman and Anne Bancroft
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Co-starred as Gwen DeMarco in the science fiction comedy hit Galaxy Quest and as Alice Goodwin, a mother and school nurse whose negligence results in the accidental drowning of a friend's toddler in the drama A Map o
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Ice Storm (1998).
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1998).
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Appeared in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm as Janey Carver, a bored but stylish housewife trapped in a failed marriage
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“Sigourney Weaver Eludes the Image Police”
Starred in Roman Polanski's drama Death and the Maiden as Paulina Escobar
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An author who as of 2024 worked as an adjunct assistant professor of the Digital Storytelling Lab at the Columbia University School of the Arts
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Weaver won two Golden Globes and two simultaneous Oscar nominations for her roles as Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and as an executive in Working Girl (both 1988); she also became the first actor to win two Golden
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Gorillas in the Mist (1988).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Working Girl (1988).
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Weaver starred as primatologist Dian Fossey in the biographical drama Gorillas in the Mist
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Actress for Aliens (1987).
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And again, on a season 35 episode in January 2010
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Returned to Broadway acting in the David Rabe play Hurlyburly acting opposite William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon, Jerry Stiller, Ron Silver, and Judith Ivey
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Which was directed by then-fledgling director Jerry Zaks
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Alongside Larry Blyden and fellow students Meryl Streep and Durang
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Made her Broadway debut in the William Somerset Maugham play The Constant Wife acting opposite Ingrid Bergman
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Shortly before turning 18, Weaver visited Israel and volunteered on a kibbutz for several months
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Born 1949-10-08.
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