Sigourney Weaver Biography

Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Sigourney Weaver has developed a range of iconic cinematic roles both tragic and comedic ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Grace in Avatar. She has captivated audiences and garnered accolades as one of the most renowned actors on both stage and cinema throughout the years, and she has utilized her celebrity to highlight her environmental advocacy. Weaver made her feature film d�but in Ridley Scott's Alien. Through her character Ripley, she created a new type of female action hero: one who was bright, resourceful, and subconsciously seductive. She then repeated the character in James Cameron's Aliens, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for best actress; in David Fincher's Aliens 3, which she also co-produced; and in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection. Following Alien, Weaver had three back-to-back big movies: Gorillas in the Mist, in which she played primatologist Dian Fossey, Working Girl, a Mike Nichols comedy, and Ghostbusters II. Weaver got her second and third Academy Award nods, as well as Golden Globe nominations, for her roles in Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. Some of her other films include the thriller Copycat; Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden; Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise; One Woman or Two with Grard Depardieu; Eyewitness with William Hurt; Showtime's live-action film Snow White: A Tale of Horror which earned her an Emmy nomination and a Screen Actors Guild nomination; M. Night Shyamalan's The Village; and James Cameron's Golden Globe-winning Avatar the highest-grossing film of all time.

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