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Date of Birth: Sigourney Weaver8 October 1949Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#81). [1995] Attended the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT. Her dad Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. ("Pat" Weaver), NBC-TV president (1953- 55), pioneered the desk-and-couch talk show format that still survives on two programs he created - NBC's "Today" (1952) and "Tonight!" (1953) (aka "The Tonight Show") shows. Ranked #71 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] ... Changed her name after reading "The Great Gatsby". Debuted in Woody Allen 's Annie Hall (1977), duration: 6 seconds. Family: Daughter of NBC-TV executive Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. ("Pat" Weaver) and actress Elizabeth Inglis, older brother, Trajan Weaver. Uncle, actor Doodles Weaver. Afraid to travel in elevators. #13 of Sci-Fi's Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine. [1997] Eye/hair color: brown Speaks fluent French and German. Graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in English. Born at 6:15 PM EST Has one daughter, Charlotte Simpson, was born on 13 April 1990. She is one of the elite eleven thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year for their achievements in two different movies. The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx and Cate Blanchett. Her salary for Alien: Resurrection (1997) was more than the entire cost of the original Alien (1979) movie. Measurements: 34B-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Suffered nightmares for two weeks after reading the script for The Village (2004). Was nominated for Broadway's 1985 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," but lost to a co-star, Judith Ivey. Has worked with three Bagginses. In Alien (1979) she works with Ian Holm, who played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation and Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). In The Ice Storm (1997) she worked with Elijah Wood, who played the part in the film. In Aliens (1986) the stunt double for Newt was Kiran Shah, who was also Wood's scale double. Though they have never worked together she has co-starred with nine actors who have also co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis: Ray Liotta, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, Tim Allen, J.E. Freeman, Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Philip Bosco and Bill Paxton. Both have co-starred with Michelle Williams. They have also both worked with composer John Ottman and director James Cameron. In many of her roles her character has had to deal with artificially intelligent spaceships. In the "Alien" movies, she battles them. In Galaxy Quest (1999), much to her character's chagrin, she repeated whatever the spaceship said. In addition, on an episode of "Futurama" (1999), and in the film WALL·E (2008), she had the chance to voice a spaceship. Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 Attended the Yale School of Drama Remains in contact with her former Aliens (1986) co-star Carrie Henn. In the film Alien: Resurrection (1997) Sigourney actually managed to sink the basketball into the hoop backwards on the first take, even though she wasn't supposed to or intended to. The shot was almost ruined because Ron Perlman broke character because he was so amazed. Her performance as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986) is ranked #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). Her performance as Ellen Ripley in the "Alien" quadrilogy is ranked #8 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. Injured her knee during the shooting of Snow Cake (2006) and has been forced to stop exercising for a year. Friend of Selina Cadell. Ranked #20 on E4's 100 Greatest Movie Stars. She was the second highest female on the list behind #13 Audrey Hepburn. Along with Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Janet Leigh, Jodie Foster, Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Eileen Heckart, Ruth Gordon, Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Toni Collette, Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, she is one of the few actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a horror movie. Singer/songwriter Mike Garrigan wrote a song entitled "Sigourney Weaver" that pays tribute to the actress. Dana Barrett, her character in the Ghostbusters films, is the only character among the leads who did not appear in the animated adaptation, The Real Ghostbusters (1986). Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#74). [2007]. Ranked #74 on Empires's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars. (2007). Has turned down several high-profile roles over the years: the Shelley Duvall role in Annie Hall (1977), the Brooke Shields role in The Blue Lagoon (1980), the Kathleen Turner role in Body Heat (1981), the Linda Hamilton role in The Terminator (1984), the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987), the Kelly McGillis role in The Accused (1988), the 'Nicole Kidman' role in Dead Calm (1989), the Natasha Richardson role in The Handmaid's Tale (1990), the Geena Davis role in Thelma & Louise (1991), the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992) and the Holly Hunter role in The Piano (1993). Read more At this site you can watch Sigourney Weaver movies online for free.
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