Sigourney Weaver (născută Susan Alexandra Weaver; n. 8 octombrie 1949, Manhattan, New York) este o actriță americană. Rolul pentru care este foarte bine cunoscută și a consacrat-o este Ellen Ripley în franciza Aliens: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. La fel de celebră au făcut-o și rolurile din filmele Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Gorillas in the Mist, The Ice Storm, Working Girl și Avatar. A fost nominalizată de trei ori pentru premiul Oscar pentru cea mai bună actriță, în filmele Aliens (1986), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Working Girl (1988) și a câștigat și trei premii Globul de Aur. Mai mult, a fost supranumită „Regina Science Fiction-ului” ("The Sci-Fi Queen"), pentru că a jucat în foarte multe filme cu acest subiect.
Familia și educația thumb|250px|left|Sigourney Weaver la Premiile Oscar 2010. Susan Alexandra Weaver s-a născut pe 8 octombrie 1949, în Manhattan, New York, fiind fiica actriței Elizabeth Inglis și a lui Sylvester "Pat" Laflin Weaver (1908–2002), un pionier al televiziunii.He is related to Matthew Laflin who was an American Manufacturer of Gunpowder, Businessman, Philanthropist, and a early pioneer of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Unchiul său Doodles Weaver a fost și el actor. Abia în 1963 a început să folosească numele de Sigourney Weaver, după ce a interpretat un rol secundar, al lui Sigourney Howard, în The Great Gatsby.. A urmat cursurile Ethel Walker School și a fost foarte complexată în perioada adolescenței sale din cauza înălțimii. La numai 14 ani, actrița avea 1,79 înălțime. A urmat de asemenea cursurile Școlii Chapin. A absolvit cursurile de actorie la Universitatea Stanford în 1972, dar încă din timpul facultății a jucat în mai multe proiecte. În 1974 a câștigat o bursă la Yale University School of Drama și a apărut în musicalul The Frogs regizat de Stephen Sondheim, dar și în alt spectacol alături de Meryl Streep, făcându-și astfel debutul.
Filmografie Film {| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! An ! Film ! Rol ! Note |- | 1977 | Annie Hall | Alvy's Date Outside Theatre
| 1978 | Madman | Not Specified
| 1979 | Alien | Ripley | DVDX Award for Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) (2003 re-issue in Alien Quadrilogy, shared with Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, Terry Rawlings, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt)Nominalizare—BAFTA Award for Best Leading NewcomerNominalizare—Saturn Award for Best Actress |- | 1981 | Eyewitness | Tony Sokolow
| 1982 | The Year of Living Dangerously | Jilly Bryant
| 1983 | Deal of the Century | Catherine DeVoto
|rowspan=2|1984 | Ghostbusters | Dana Barrett
| Terror in the Aisles | Ripley | archival footage |- | 1985 | | Jessica Fitzgerald
|rowspan=2|1986 | Half Moon Street | Dr. Lauren Slaughter | Mystfest Award for Best Actress |- | Aliens | Ellen Ripley | Saturn Award for Best ActressNominalizare—Academy Award for Best ActressNominalizare—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |- |rowspan=2|1988 | Gorillas in the Mist | Dian Fossey | Golden Apple Award for Female Star of the YearGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (tied with Jodie Foster and Shirley MacLaine)Nominalizare—Academy Award for Best ActressNominalizare—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress |- | Working Girl | Katharine Parker | Golden Apple Award for Female Star of the YearGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureNominalizare—Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressNominalizare—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting RoleNominalizare—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress |- | 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Dana Barrett
|rowspan=3|1992 | The Snow Queen | Naratoarea | Film scurtDoar voce |- | Alien 3 | Ellen Ripley | Also co-producerNominalizare—Saturn Award for Best Actress |- | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Queen Isabella
|rowspan=2|1993 | Rabbit Ears: Peachboy | Naratoarea | Film scurtDoar voce |- | Dave | Ellen Mitchell
|rowspan=2|1994 | The Wild Swans | Naratoarea | Film scurtDoar voce |- | Death and the Maiden | Paulina Escobar |Gotham Award for Best Actress |- |rowspan=2|1995 | Copycat | Helen Hudson | Special Mention Award at the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac (Shared with Holly Hunter) |- | Jeffrey | Debra Moorhouse
|rowspan=2|1997 | | Janey Carver | BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting RoleHasty Pudding Woman of the Year AwardNominalizare—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureNominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |- | Alien Resurrection | (Alien Hybrid Clone of) Ellen Ripley | Plus co-producătoareHasty Pudding Woman of the Year AwardNominalizare—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Sci-FiNominalizare—Saturn Award for Best Actress |- |rowspan=2|1999 | | Alice Goodwin | Nominalizare—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture DramaNominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |- | Galaxy Quest | Gwen DeMarco/Lieutenant Tawny Madison | Nominalizare—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – ComedyNominalizare—Saturn Award for Best Actress |- | 2000 | Company Man | Daisy Quimp
|rowspan=2|2001 | Heartbreakers | Angela Nardino/Max Conners/Ulga Yevanova | Nominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- | Big Bad Love | Betti DeLoreo | Doar voce |- |rowspan=2|2002 | Tadpole | Eve Grubman
| Joan | Regizat de soțul Jim Simpson, în distribuție mai este fiica Charlotte SimpsonNominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |- | 2003 | Holes | Warden Walker
|rowspan=2|2004 | Imaginary Heroes | Sandy Travis | Nominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
| Alice Hunt
|rowspan=3|2006 | Snow Cake | Linda Freeman | Nominalizare—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading RoleNominalizare—Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
| Lenny
| Infamous | Babe Paley
|rowspan=2|2007 | Happily N'Ever After | Frieda | Doar voce
| Julia Sandburg
|rowspan=5|2008 | Vantage Point | Rex Brooks
| Be Kind Rewind | Ms. Lawson
| Baby Mama | Chaffee Bicknell
| WALL•E | Computer |rowspan=2|Doar voce
| Naratoarea |- |2009 | Avatar | Dr. Grace Augustine | Saturn Award for Best Supporting ActressNominalizare—Scream Award for Best Supporting Actress |- |rowspan=2|2010 | Crazy on the Outside | Vicky Zelda
| You Again | Ramona Clark
|rowspan=4|2011 | Cedar Rapids | Marcy Vanderhei
| Paul | "The Big Guy"
| Abduction | Dr. Geraldine "Geri" Bennett
| Rampart | Joan Confrey
| rowspan=4|2012 | The Cabin in the Woods | The Director
| Red Lights| Margaret Matheson
| The Cold Light of Day| Jean Carrack
| Vamps| Cisserus
| rowspan="1"|2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings| Tuya
| 2015 | Chappie| Michelle Bradley
| rowspan="4" |2016 | Finding Dory| Rolul ei | Rol de voce |- | Ghostbusters| Dr. Rebecca Gorin | Cameo |- | A Monster Calls| Grandma
| The Assignment| Dr. Rachel Jane
| rowspan="2" |2017 | The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)| Rolul ei
| Rakka| Jasper | Scurtmetraj |- | 2020 | Avatar 2| rowspan="2"|TBA | rowspan="2"|Filmări |- | 2021 | Avatar 3|}
Televiziune An Program Rol Note 1976 Somerset Avis Ryan 1977 The Best of Families Laura Wheeler1979 3 by Cheever: The Sorrows of GinMarcia Lawton 3 by Cheever: O Youth and Beauty! 1997 Snow White: A Tale of Terror Lady Claudia Hoffman Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year AwardNominalizare—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a MovieNominalizare—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie 2002 Futurama The Female Planet Express Ship Episodul: "Love and Rocket" (Doar voce) 2008 Eli Stone Therapist Episodul: "The Path" 2009 Prayers for Bobby Mary Griffith Trevor Life AwardNominalizare—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominalizare—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a MovieNominalizare—Prism Award for Best ActressNominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominalizare—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie 2011 Spring/Fall 2012Political Animals Elaine Barrish Nominalizare—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Lead Actress - Miniseries or MovieNominalizare—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominalizare—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominalizare—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television MovieNominalizare—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 2014 My Depression
Documentare An Program Rol Note 1999 Why Dogs Smile & Chimpanzees Cry Naratoare Voce 2001 The Roman Empire In The First Century Naratoare Voce 2003National Geographic Specials: The Lost Film of Dian Fossey Naratoare Voce2006 Planet Earth Naratoare Voce Gorillas Revisited Ea însăși Producție BBC 2009 ACID TEST: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification Naratoare Voce și imagine
Jocuri Video An Joc Rol Note2009James Cameron's Avatar: The GameDr. Grace Augustine Xbox 360/PS3/Wii version2014Alien: IsolationEllen Ripley "Crew Expendable" and "Last Survivor" DLCs
Premii Lifetime Achievement An Ceremonie Premiu 1999Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2001 Chicago International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 Empire Awards Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival Diamond Award 2008 Marrakech International Film Festival Honorary Award of the Festival 2010 Scream Awards The Heroine Award 2013 Goldene Kamera Best International Actress
Alte premii An Premiu Note2008 Trevor Life Award For being an inspiration to LGBT youth(for her involvement in Prayers for Bobby)</small>2011Rachel Carson AwardFor environmental activism
Scenă Better Dead Than Sorry (1971, Yale Cabaret) as Jenny Story Theatre (1972, Williamstown Theatre Festival) Sarah B. Divine! (1972, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as Anita, the Eternal Maid The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1972, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as Dockdaisy The Rat Trap (1972, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as Cynthia Muldoon Once in a Lifetime (1972, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as Florabel Leigh The Elephant Calf (1972, Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Tempest (1973, Yale Repertory Theatre) Watergate Classics (1973-4, Yale Repertory Theatre) Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1974, Yale University Theatre) The Nature and Purpose of the Universe (1974, Direct Theatre) as Eleanor (workshop production) The Frogs (1974, Yale Repertory Theatre) as member of the Chorus The Constant Wife (1975, Shubert Theatre, understudy) as Marie-Louise Durham Titanic (1976, Direct Theatre) as Lidia/Annabella/Harriet Das Lusitania Songspiel (1976, Van Dam Theatre) Gemini (1976, Playwright's Horizons) as Judith Hastings Marco Polo Sings a Solo (1977, Public/Newman Theatre) as Freydis Conjuring an Event (1978, American Place Theatre) as Annabella A Flea in Her Ear (1978, Hartford Stage)The New York Times, 13 ianuarie 1978. Gussow, Mel. "A Flea in Hartford's Ear" New Jerusalem (1979, Public Theater)The New York Times, 16 februarie 1979. Gussow, Mel. "An Evening in New Jerusalem; On the Trail of Kef" Das Lusitania Songspiel (new version) (1980, Westside Theatre). Also co-authored the play with Christopher Durang. Lone Star (1980) as Elizabeth Beyond Therapy (1981, Phoenix Theatre) as Prudence As You Like It (1981, Dallas Festival of Shakespeare) as Rosalind Animal Kingdom (1982, Berkshire Festival) as Cecelia Henry Old Times (1983, Williamstown Theatre Festival) as Anna Hurlyburly (1984-5, Ethel Barrymore Theatre) as Darlene.