Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver Susan Alexandra (New York, 8 October 1949) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1987 for her starring role in Aliensand in 1989 also got nominations for her starring role in Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and for her supporting role in Working Girl. More than ten film awards were her actually awarded, including two Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award and a Saturn Award. ==Biography[ Edit] == Weaver is the daughter of television producer and president Pat Weaver of NBC and the British actress Elizabeth Inglis. She changed her name at the age of fourteen inSigourney, after a character from the book "The Great Gatsby" by f. Scott Fitzgerald. She graduated from Stanford and Yale (in the same class as Meryl Streep). In the 1970s she played in experimental and classical plays, among other things from her former classmate Christopher Durang. By her height (she is 1.82 metres), she was often ignored by most producers and directors.

In 1976 Weaver got a roll in the soap opera Somerset. The following year she made her film debut: she was to see six seconds in Annie Hall Woody Allen's. In 1978, she had her first leading role in Madman, after which they broke the following year in Ridley Scott's Alien, which is perhaps her most famous role was. The role of Ellen RipleyWeaver's made one of the greatest actresses of the moment. She continued her career with drama movies like Eyewitness (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously(1982), with Mel Gibson. In 1984 she played her first comic role in Ghostbusters .

In 1986 came the first sequel to Alien out. Ripley In Aliens put Weaver down like an intelligent, powerful woman. She was rewarded for her performance with a first Oscar nomination. Also for her role as animal rights activist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl (both in 1988), she was nominated for an Oscar. They ran the price all three times wrong but did get Golden Globes for the latter two films.

For her role in The Ice Storm from 1997 she got her fourth Golden Globe nomination and won a BAFTA for best supporting actress.

Weaver married on 1 October 1984 with Director Jim Simpson, with whom she had daughter Charlotte in april 1990. ==Filmography[ Edit] == Weaver in 2007