
Sigourney Weaver
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Biography
Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films. She is known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, which earned her an Academy Award nomination in 1986 and is often regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history.
A seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Weaver won both Best Actress in Drama and Best Supporting Actress in 1988 for her work in the films Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person to win two acting Golden Globes in the same year. She also received Academy Award nominations for both films. For her role in the film The Ice Storm (1997), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress ina Supporting Role. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the 1984 Broadway play Hurlyburly.
Weaver's other film roles include Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Dave (1993), Galaxy Quest (1999), Holes (2003), WALL-E (2008), Avatar (2009), Prayers for Bobby (2009), Paul (2011), The Cabin in the Woods (2012), and A Monster Calls (2016); and the television miniseries Political Animals (2012) and The Defenders (2017).
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Saturday Night Live

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Daily Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Oscars

The Late Late Show with James Corden

GMTV

Honest Trailers

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

Finding Your Roots

The Graham Norton Show

The Newsreader

The Jay Leno Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Movies That Made Us

The One Show

The Early Show

Marvel's The Defenders

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Futurama

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Mark Twain Prize

Ghostbusters

Finding Dory

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

Paul

Be Kind Rewind

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Happily N'Ever After

The Cabin in the Woods

Somerset

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Exodus: Gods and Kings

WALL·E

Baby Mama

Chappie

The Tale of Despereaux

The Village

Abduction

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20

Avatar 4

Call My Agent!

Company Man

Holes

Avatar

The Gorge

Ghostbusters II

You Again

Avatar 5

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Working Girl

Ghostbusters

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Avatar: The Way of Water

My Salinger Year

Planet Earth

Call Jane

A Monster Calls

The Mandalorian and Grogu

Alien

Dave

One Woman or Two

Red Lights

The Good House

Alien Resurrection

A Map of the World

Aliens

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

The Girl in the Park

Heartbreakers

Secrets of the Whales

Alien³
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