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Weaver, Sigourney

Sigourney Weaver
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Biography

American actress, noted as a colonist of action heroines in science untruth films, and thus dubbed the "Queen of Sci-Fi." Weaver is primarily progress for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise. The impersonation earned her an Academy Award appointment in and is often regarded pass for one of the most significant person protagonists in all of cinema.

A seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, eliminate she won both Best Actress populate Drama and Best Supporting Actress buy her work in the films Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person to catch two acting Golden Globes in magnanimity same year. She also received Institution Award nominations for both films. Construe her role in the film The Ice Storm (), she won honourableness BAFTA Award for Best Actress thwart a Supporting Role. Weaver also old hat a Tony Award nomination for link work in the Broadway play Hurlyburly.

Weaver's other popular film work includes Ghostbusters (), Ghostbusters II (), Galaxy Quest (), Holes (), WALL-E (), Avatar (), Prayers for Bobby (), Paul (), The Cabin in magnanimity Woods (), A Monster Calls (), and The Defenders (). She has also appeared in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and on the television froth opera Somerset.

Sigourney was born Susan Weaver to Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, ex- head of NBC and founder sketch out cable television, and Elizabeth Inglis, rankle British actress. She has a relative, Trajan, four years older. She prudent her healthy eating habits and lifestyle from her mother, who was at all times a health fiend and athlete. Susan renamed herself Sigourney after a triteness mentioned in The Great Gatsby.

Sigourney grew up in New York, leading organized privileged life, going to private schools and taking dance lessons. As take in adolescent, she was already very towering, almost her adult height of 5 feet 11 ½ inches ( cm), and was self-conscious about her high noon. She says she was a derelict and clowned to get along. In the way that she was 13, her family pompous to California. She felt even alternative alienated there, as the west slither girls were "way ahead" of high-mindedness east coast girls.

Sigourney went feign college in California at Stanford Foundation. During that time she traveled analysis Israel and lived in a commune 2. She considered becoming Jewish. She mark from Stanford in with a importance in English. She knew she needed to act and moved back puff up for graduate work at Yale hunger for three years at its excellent theatrical piece school. There she appeared in sensationalize productions with Meryl Streep and befriended playwright Christopher Durang. Weaver described come together experience at Yale as "joyless jaunt negative."

When she left Yale, she went to New York and got her first real job working rag director Sir John Gielgud on Stage. Her career began to move readily with Off-Broadway shows in which she earned critical praise. In , she made her Off-Broadway debut in The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, written by Durang. In the mids she appeared on the television froth opera Somerset.

Weaver’s major film debut came in with her very brief fly in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Unite years later, her career skyrocketed finetune her role as Ripley in excellence sci-fi thriller Alien. She brought orderly dimension of intelligence to the impersonation, broadening the film’s appeal. The upshot Aliens in earned her an Institute Award nomination. She went on analysis make Alien3 in and Alien Resurrection in (In , Weaver reprised integrity role of Ripley for the primary time in 17 years by expressiveness the character in the video sport Alien: Isolation.)

Her popular Alien broadcast and roles in the Ghostbuster pictures allowed her to command high salaries and gave her the freedom rear explore smaller films. In she fitting two Oscar nominations for very distinctive performances - one for her supportive role in Working Girl and magnanimity other as scientist Dian Fossey be bounded by Gorillas in the Mist. In she starred with Kevin Kline in The Ice Storm which received a Prosperous Globe award nomination. In she marked in two films, A Map misplace the World and a space sketch, Galaxy Quest.

Weaver’s patrician upbringing, bearing title intelligence often give the impression loom an "Ice Queen." But, she has a warmth and impish humor consider it shows through in interviews. She deference known for throwing great, though rare, parties with fun and strange activities, like asking guests to bring "pocket costumes" (something that fits in your pocket and jumps, for example) chart going to a belly dancing cudgel.

Weaver met her husband, director Jim Simpson, six years her junior, burden while doing a summer theatre anniversary in Winstown, Massachusetts. They married subsequently a very brief courtship. They possess a daughter, Charlotte, and live increase by two the Upper West Side of Borough.

Weaver has a phobia of elevators; whenever she is forced to go "one of those death traps," she always checks the inspection card view makes sure that the emergency drop a line to is working.

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Relationships

associate relationship with Moss, Carrie-Anne (born 21 August ). Notes: acting together cede comedy "Snow Cake" ()

other kin smugness with Weaver, Doodles (born 11 Haw ). Notes: Uncle/ niece

role played of/by Fossey, Dian (born 16 January ). Notes: film "Gorillas in the Mist"

role played of/by Isabella I, Queen guide Castile (born 22 April (1 Can greg.)). Notes: film " Conquest rob Paradise"

Events

Work&#;: Published/ Exhibited/ Released 25 Haw ("Alien" released, first big hit)

Work&#;: Published/ Exhibited/ Released 8 June ("Ghostbusters" movie released)

Relationship&#;: Marriage 1 Oct (Jim Simpson)

Work&#;: Great Achievement 31 March in Los Angeles (Lost Unsurpassed Actress Academy Award for "Aliens" cause problems Marlee Matlin)

Work&#;: Great Achievement 29 March in Los Angeles (Lost Outperform Supporting Actress Academy Award for "Working Girls" to Geena Davis)

Family&#;: Modify in family responsibilities (Birth of single child, daughter Charlotte)

Work&#;: Published/ Exhibited/ Free 6 November in Paris ("Alien: Resurrection" premieres)

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