Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (Manhattan, New York, October 8, 1949), better known as Sigourney Weaver, is an American film, television and television actress and producer. theater. She has been nominated for the Oscars and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has been the winner of two Golden Globes in the categories of Best Actress in a Drama and Best Supporting Actress, from several Saturn Awards (Aliens and Avatar) and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress. She is known for her appearances as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in several films in the Alien saga: Alien, the Eighth Passenger (1979), Aliens, the Return (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997). He has also participated in other well-remembered films such as Avatar (2009), Ghostbusters (1984), Gorillas in the Fog (1988), Working Girl (1988), Copycat (1994), The Ice Storm (1997), Snow White: A Horror Tale (1997), and The Village (2004). She is also known as the "queen of science fiction".

Biography

She was born in Leroy Hospital, the daughter of Pat Weaver, a television executive producer, and Elizabeth Inglis, a British actress who put her career aside to care for her husband and children. In her family It also highlights his uncle, the actor and comedian Doodles Weaver. She lived in numerous places during her childhood. At the age of thirteen she already had a height that was superior to the rest of her, being the reason for her to be teased by her classmates.

In 1962 her family moved to San Francisco, an unpleasant experience for her. They later moved to eastern Connecticut, where she enrolled at the Ethel Walker School, having the same problems as at the previous school. In 1963 she changed her name to Sigourney, after reading The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. She acted in some of the school plays and in 1965 she worked as an actress in a troupe. She graduated from school in 1967 and spent a period of time in Israel, where she met reporter Aaron Lathmane, to whom she became engaged, although they broke off shortly thereafter.

In 1969 he enrolled in English literature at Stanford University. When she finished her studies, she entered the Yale School of Drama in New York, where she made her stage debut in 1973. On October 1, 1984, she married Jim Simpson, with whom she has a daughter, Charlotte Simpson, born on 13 April 1990. He speaks several languages, including French and German. She currently resides in New York City or Santa Barbara.

Career

Her film debut came with Woody Allen's film Annie Hall (1977) in which she played a small character alongside Allen. Two years later the actress appeared as Lieutenant Ripley in the first part of the Alien saga, entitled Alien (1979). She reprized the character in three sequels, Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997), also producing the The latter two. The critic Roger Ebert expressed, following his participation in the film directed by James Cameron, that "Weaver, who is on screen most of the time, gives a strong and likeable performance. She is the thread that holds it all together." She was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress, becoming one of the few actresses to have been nominated for that award for a horror film. She continued her career with the successful Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel, Ghostbusters II (1989). In both films she coincided with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis.

Weaver and his father Pat Weaver in 1989.

At the end of the decade, he played two of the highest-rated roles of his professional career, both in the 1988 comedy Working Girl, with Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith, and in the drama Gorillas in the Mist, as Dian Fossey. On her performance as Fossey, critic Emanuel Levy commented "Sigourney Weaver gives an impressive performance, worthy of an Oscar. " She won the Golden Globe for both performances, in the categories of best supporting actress and best actress in drama, respectively.; and she got new nominations for the Oscars for best actress and best supporting actress, being one of the few performers to get two nominations in the same year. In the 1990s she appeared in films such as Copycat (1995) in which she played Helen Hudson who suffered from agoraphobia; or in The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee and for which she won a new Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA in the same category. A Map of the World (1999), with Julianne Moore, for which she was again nominated for a Golden Globe. Dan Lybarger noted that "Sigourney Weaver is excellent, even when the film is too formal" ” He later starred in the comedy Heartbreakers (2001), sharing the bill with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman. In 2004, she appeared in M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village . Years later, he was part of the ensemble cast of the drama Infamous (2006) directed by Douglas McGrath, in which he played Babe Paley, a close friend of Truman Capote, in whose cast were also Sandra Bullock, Toby Jones or Gwyneth Paltrow.

Sigourney Weaver in 2008 at the premiere Baby Mama.

He shot in Spain, in the Castilian-Leonese city of Salamanca, the action film Vantage Point (2008), together with Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox. That same year he lent his voice to the computer of the ship Axiom in the animated film WALL E, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

The following year, she received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Made-for-Movie, an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited-Series or Made-for-Movie and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Limited-Series or Made-for-Movie for the Made-for-TV Movie. Prayers for Bobby (2009). 2,700 million dollars raised internationally. He took part in the comedy You Again (2010), where he worked with Jamie Lee Curtis and Betty White, of which the film critic Lou Lumenick said: " You Again could be taught in film schools as an example of how not to make a movie. And how not to humiliate veteran actors."

Weaver in December 2009.

On September 23, 2011, the action film Abduction was released, starring Taylor Lautner, in which she played Dr. Bennett. At the end of 2011, she took part in the comedy film Vamps also featuring Alicia Silverstone. In 2012 he premiered the action film Rampart, with Woody Harrelson, The Cold Light of Day, alongside Bruce Willis, and the film directed by the Spanish Rodrigo Cortés titled Red Lights, in whose cast are Robert De Niro and Cillian Murphy. He also starred in the miniseries Political Animals, broadcast on the USA Network between July and August of that year.

In 2014, she reprized the role of Ripley for the first time in 17 years, voicing her in the video game Alien: Isolation and confirms that she will appear in all three sequels to Avatar by James Cameron. In 2014 Weaver appeared in the film Exodus: Gods and Kings, in the role of Tuya, alongside Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton and Ben Kingsley.

At the New York Comic Con held in October 2016, it was confirmed that he will participate in Marvel's The Defenders, which premiered in August 2017.

Filmography

Awards

Oscar Awards

Golden Globe Awards

BAFTA Awards

Awards of the Union of Actors

Emmy Awards

Goya Awards

San Sebastian International Film Festival