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Sigourney Weaver was born in 1949 as Susan Alexandra Weaver in New York City. Her father was in the 1950s, President of the National Broadcasting Television Network NBC, her mother is British actress Elizabeth Inglis. As a teenager, she chose the name Sigourney after a minor character (Mrs. Sigourney Howard) from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
Sigourney Weaver won in 1972 at Stanford University with a degree in English in 1974 and finished her education at the Yale School of Drama, the Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) with a Master of Fine Arts.
Her film debut Weaver 1977 (with a small role Duration: six seconds) in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall, the. In 1979 she played the lead role as Ellen Ripley in Alien, which it acquired in the three installments of the film. In 1982 she played alongside Mel Gibson in the political thriller A year in hell. In Snow Cake, 2005, the role she played an autistic woman whose daughter was killed in a traffic accident. For the TV movie based on a true story Prayers for Bobby, in which she plays a Homosexuellenaktivistin, whose son committed suicide because of his sexuality, she won the 2009, an Emmy nomination.
The French writer Jean Carrière wrote an essay-biography about her.
Born Susan Alexandra Weaver
October 8, 1949 (age 60)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1976–present
Spouse(s) Jim Simpson (1984–present)
Filmography
Actress
Somerset (1970) TV Series
Annie Hall (Annie Hall) (1977)
The Best of Families (1977) TV mini-series
Madman (1978)
Alien (Alien) (1979)
3 by Cheever: The Sorrows of Gin (1979) TV Movie
3 by Cheever: O Youth and Beauty! (1979) TV Movie
An uncomfortable witness (Eyewitness) (1981)
A Year of Living Dangerously (The Year of Living Dangerously) (1982)
Deal of the Century (Deal of the Century) (1983)
Ghostbusters - Ghostbusters (Ghost Busters) (1984)
Walls of Glass (1985)
Tall, beautiful and dangerous (Une femme ou deux) (1985)
Aliens - final showdown (Aliens) (1986)
Mystery (Half Moon Street) (1986)
Saturday Night Live (Saturday Night Live), in the episode "Episode # 12.1" (1986)
Gorillas in the Mist (Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey) (1988)
A career woman (Working Girl) (1988)
Ghostbusters 2 (Ghostbusters II) (1989)
Alien ³ (Alien ³) (1992)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1492: Conquest of Paradise) (1992)
Dave - President for a day (Dave) (1993)
Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden) (1994)
Jeffrey (Jeffrey) (1995)
Copycat - serial murders (copycat) (1995)
Ice Storm (The Ice Storm) (1997)
Snow White in the Black Forest (Snow White: A Tale of Terror) (1997)
Alien: Resurrection (Alien: Resurrection) (1997)
The world map (A Map of the World) (1999)
Galaxy Quest (Galaxy Quest) (1999)
A spy case (Company Man) (2000)
Heartbreakers - Runs in the Family (Heartbreakers) (2001)
Tadpole - A young seducer in New York (Tadpole) (2002)
The Guys (The Guys) (2002)
Holes - Holes in the desert (Holes) (2003)
Imaginary Heroes (Imaginary Heroes) (2004)
The Village (The Village) (2004)
Snow Cake (Snow Cake) (2006)
The TV Set (2006)
Infamous - A bad reputation (Infamous) (2006)
Cinderella and the 007 dwarves (Happily N'Ever After) (2006) - voice
The Girl in the Park (2007)
Vantage Point (Vantage Point) (2008)
Be Kind Rewind - The acchiappafilm (Be Kind Rewind) (2008)
Baby Mama (2008)
WALL • E (2008)
Avatar (2009)
Avatar (video game) (voice) (2009)
Prayers for Bobby (2009) (TV movie)
Crazy On The Outside (2009)
Paul (2009)
You Again (2010)
Night Train (2010)
G-String Mother (2010)
