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Sigourney Weaver Biography and Filmography
Sigourney Weaver
Birthday: October 8, 1949
Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Height: 5' 1"
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Biography
Though she is a classically trained dramatic actress and has played a variety of roles, Sigourney Weaver is still best known for her portrayal of the steel-jawed, alien-butt-kicking space crusader Ellen Ripley from the four Alien movies. The formidably beautiful, 5'11'' actress was born Susan Weaver to NBC president Pat Weaver and actress Elizabeth Inglis. Her father had a passion for Roman history and originally wanted to name her Flavia, but after reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby at the age of 14, Weaver renamed herself Sigourney, after one of the book's minor characters. After being schooled in her native New York City, Weaver attended Stanford University and then obtained her master's at the Yale School of Drama where, along with classmate Meryl Streep, she appeared in classical Greek plays. After earning her degree, Weaver was only able to find work in experimental plays produced well away from Broadway, as more conventional producers found her too tall to perform in mainstream works. After getting her first real break in the soap opera Somerset (1970-1976), she made her film debut with a bit part in Woody Allen's Annie Hall in 1977. She had her first major role in Madman which was released just prior to Alien in 1979. Though the role of Ripley was originally designed for Veronica Cartwright (who ultimately played the doomed Lambert), scouts for director Ridley Scott saw Weaver working off-Broadway and felt she would be perfect for the part. The actress' take on the character was laced with a subtlety that made her a new kind of female action hero: Intelligent, resourceful, and unconsciously sexy, Weaver's Ripley was a woman with the guts to master her fear in order to take on a terrifying unknown enemy. Alien proved to be one of the year's biggest hits and put Weaver on Hollywood's A-list, though she would not reprise her character for another seven years. In between, she worked to prove her versatility, playing solid dramatic roles in Eyewitness (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), while letting a more playful side show as a cellist who channels a fearsome demon in Ghostbusters (1984). In 1986, Aliens burst into the theater, even gorier and more rip-roaring than its predecessor. This time, Weaver focused more on the maternal side of her character, which only served to make her tougher than ever. Her unforgettable performance was honored with a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and was followed up by Weaver's similarly haunting portrayal of doomed naturalist/animal rights activist Diane Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist (1988). The role won Weaver her second Best Actress Oscar nomination, and that same year, she received yet another Oscar nomination — this time for Best Supporting Actress — for her deliciously poisonous portrayal of Melanie Griffith's boss in Working Girl. After 1992's Alien 3, Weaver had her next big hit playing President Kevin Kline's lonely wife in the bittersweet romantic comedy Dave (1993). She then gave a gripping performance as a rape/torture victim who faces down the man who may or may not have been her tormentor in Roman Polanski's moody thriller Death and the Maiden (1994). During the latter half of the decade, Weaver appeared in Alien Resurrection — perhaps the most poorly received installment of the series — but increasingly surfaced in offbeat roles such as the coolly fragile Janey in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and the psychotic, wicked Queen in the adult-oriented HBO production The Grimm Brothers' Snow White (both 1997). In 1999, she starred in the sci-fi spoof Galaxy Quest, making fun of her image as a sci-fi goddess while continuing to prove her remarkable versatility.Weaver's first high-profile project of the new millenium saw her swindling Ray Liotta and Gene Hackman as a sexy con-woman teamed up with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Already into her fifties, Weaver proved she still possessed plenty of sex-appeal even alongside a substantially younger starlet like Hewitt. She played up her sultry side some more in the well-received 2002 indie-comedy Tadpole, but changed gears a bit in 2003, playing a villain in the family sleeper hit Holes.In 2004, Weaver could be seen as part of the ensemble cast in M. Night Shyamalan's summer thriller The Village.Weaver has been married to stage director Jim Simpson since 1984. When not appearing in films, she continues to be active in theater.
Filmography
Vantage Point (2007)
[ Zoe Saldana ]
Happily N'Ever After (2007)
[ Sarah Michelle Gellar ]
Infamous (2006)
[ Sandra Bullock ][ Gwyneth Paltrow ][ Isabella Rossellini ][ Hope Davis ][ Juliet Stevenson ]
The TV Set (2006)
[ Judy Greer ][ Justine Bateman ][ Lindsay Sloane ][ Bree Turner ][ Andrea Martin ]
Snowcake (2006)
[ Carrie Anne Moss ]
The Village (2004)
[ Bryce Dallas Howard ][ Judy Greer ][ Cherry Jones ]
Imaginary Heroes (2004)
[ Michelle Williams ][ Tonye Patano ]
Holes (2003)
[ Patricia Arquette ][ Eva Kitt ][ Siobhan Fallon ][ Roma Maffia ][ Allison Smith ]
The Guys (2002)
Tadpole (2002)
[ Bebe Neuwirth ]
Big Bad Love (2001)
[ Rosanna Arquette ][ Debra Winger ][ Angie Dickinson ]
Heartbreakers (2001)
[ Jennifer Love Hewitt ][ Carrie Fisher ][ Sarah Silverman ][ Anne Bancroft ][ Nora Dunn ]
Company Man (2000)
[ Heather Matarazzo ]
Galaxy Quest (1999)
[ Missi Pyle ][ Susan Egan ][ Spice Williams ]
A Map of the World (1999)
[ Julianne Moore ][ Chloe Sevigny ][ Sara Rue ][ Nicole Ari Parker ][ Louise Fletcher ]
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
[ Winona Ryder ][ Dominique Pinon ]
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
[ Monica Keena ]
The Ice Storm (1997)
[ Katie Holmes ][ Christina Ricci ][ Allison Janney ][ Joan Allen ][ Colleen Camp ]
Copycat (1995)
[ Holly Hunter ]
Jeffrey (1995)
[ Kathie Najimy ][ Christine Baranski ][ Camryn Manheim ][ Olympia Dukakis ]
Death and the Maiden (1994)
Dave (1993)
[ Laure Linney ][ Bonnie Hunt ][ Bonnie Bartlett ][ Sarah Marshall ]
Rabbit Ears: Peachboy (1993)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
[ Angela Molino ]
Alien³ (1992)
[ Barbara Harris ]
Ghostbusters II (1989)
[ Annie Potts ][ Chloe Webb ]
Working Girl (1988)
[ Melanie Griffith ][ Joan Cusack ][ Ricki ][ Olympia Dukakis ][ Nora Dunn ]
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
Half Moon Street (1986)
[ Janet McTeer ]
Aliens (1986)
[ Jenette Goldstein ][ Carrie Henn ]
Walls of Glass (1985)
[ Holly Marie Combs ][ Kathie Najimy ][ Christine Baranski ][ Camryn Manheim ][ Olympia Dukakis ]
Une femme ou deux (1985)
Ghost Busters (1984)
[ Annie Potts ][ Debbie Gibson ][ Jennifer Runyon ]
Deal of the Century (1983)
[ Jo Marie Payton-Noble ][ Randi Brooks ][ Nikka Costa ]
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
[ Linda Weir ][ Linda Hunt ][ Sky London ]
Eyewitness (1981)
3 by Cheever: O Youth and Beauty! (1979)
[ Holland Taylor ]
3 by Cheever: The Sorrows of Gin (1979)
[ Rachel Roberts ]
Alien (1979)
[ Veronica Cartwright ]
Madman (1978)
Annie Hall (1977)
[ Diane Keaton ][ Beverly D'Angelo ][ Shelley Duvall ][ Carol Kane ][ Colleen Dewhurst ]
Trivia
  • Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#81). [1995]
  • Attended the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT.
  • Her dad Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. ("Pat" Weaver), NBC-TV president (1953- 55), pioneered the desk-and-couch talk show format that still survives on two programs he created - NBC's "Today" (1952) and "Tonight!" (1953) (aka "The Tonight Show") shows.
  • Ranked #71 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
  • Changed her name after reading "The Great Gatsby".
  • Debuted in Woody Allen 's Annie Hall (1977), duration: 6 seconds.
  • Family: Daughter of NBC-TV executive Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. ("Pat" Weaver) and actress Elizabeth Inglis, older brother, Trajan Weaver. Uncle, actor Doodles Weaver.
  • Afraid to travel in elevators.
  • #13 of Sci-Fi's Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine. [1997]
  • Eye/hair color: brown
  • Speaks fluent French and German.
  • Graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in English.
  • Born at 6:15 PM EST
  • Has one daughter, Charlotte Simpson, born 13 April 1990
  • She is one of the elite ten thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year for their achievements in two different movies. The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, 'Emma Thompson' , Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore and Jamie Foxx.
  • Her salary for Alien: Resurrection (1997) was more than the entire cost of the original Alien (1979) movie.
  • Measurements: 34B-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
  • Suffered nightmares for two weeks after reading the script for The Village (2004).
  • Was nominated for Broadway's 1985 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," but lost to a co-star, Judith Ivey.
  • Has worked with three Bagginses. In Alien (1979) she works with Ian Holm, who played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation. In The Ice Storm (1997) she works with Elijah Wood, who played the part in the film. In Aliens (1986) the stunt double for Newt was Kiran Shah, who was also Wood's scale double.
  • Though they have never worked together she has co-starred with nine actors who have also co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis: Ray Liotta, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, Tim Allen, J.E. Freeman, Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Philip Bosco and Bill Paxton. Both have co-starred with Michelle Williams. They have also both worked with composer John Ottman and director James Cameron.
  • Sister of older brother, Trajan Weaver.
  • In many of her roles her character has had to deal with artificially intelligent spaceships. In the "Alien" movies, she battles them. In Galaxy Quest (1999), much to her character's chagrin, she repeated whatever the spaceship said. In addition, on an episode of "Futurama" (1999), she had the chance to voice a spaceship.
  • Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998
  • Maintains a regular correspondence with Carrie Henn, who played Newt in Aliens.
  • Attended the Yale School of Drama
  • Shares her birthday with Matt Damon, Kirstanna Loken and Nick Cannon.
  • Remains in contact with her former Aliens co-star Carrie Henn.
  • In the film "Alien Resurrection" (1997) Sigourney actually managed to sink the basketball into the hoop backwards on the first take, even though she wasn't supposed to or intended to. The shot was almost ruined because Ron Pearlman broke character because he was so amazed.
  • Her performance as Ellen Ripley in "Aliens" (1986) is ranked #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
  • Her performance as Ellen Ripley in the "Alien" quadrilogy is ranked #8 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

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