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Real Name:Susan Alexandra Weaver
Height:5'11" (182 cm)
Date of Birth:8 October 1949, New York, NY
Husband:Jim Simpson (married 1984)
Kids:Charlotte (born 1990)
Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've
always been a late bloomer.
-- Sigourney Weaver;
Trivia:
Born in 1949 in New York by former NBC president (1953-55) Sylvester (Pat) and former actress Desiree (Liz) Weaver (a.k.a. ElizabethInglis), she was named Susan Alexander Weaver, though her father wanted to call her Flavia, because of his intense interest in Roman history. Her brother, though, was named Trajan after the Roman emperor.
In a family with unusual names it was natural for her to change her name to something more fitting to the family standard, and after reading The Great Gatsby, she chose the name of one of the minor characters, and at the age of 14, became known as Sigourney Weaver.
The whole family seems to have close ties to showbusiness, the dad president of NBC TV, her mom an actress, and her uncle Winstead Sheffield Weaver (Doodles Weaver) was also an actor and member of the Spike Jones' Troup, and remembered from the Professor Feitlebaum character.
She completed an university education at Stanford and Yale Universities, before she started her career on the screen, where she had her breakthrough in Alien with the role as Lt. Ellen Ripley, the astronaut who not only had to face evil, man-eating aliens but also face up to the stupidity of the mining corporation, that wants a new military weapon! Later movies only showed, that she was an actress that mastered most genres; from a gutsy, tough lady as in the Alien Quatrology and Gorillas in the Mist, through a sexy seductress in Ghostbusters, to a psychotic nervous wreck in Copycat.
While portraying Dian Fossey in the motion picture Gorillas in the Mist, Ms. Weaver was so moved by her experiences with the gorillas while filming that she became a supporter of the DFGF (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund). Now Sigourney is DFGF's honorary chair to the board of trustees.
But even before she started her career on the big screen, she was honing her skills as an actress doing theater work almost five years before debuting in the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall in 1977. Her theater debut was in 1973 in the play Watergate Classics. She's also an alumni of The Yale School of Drama, in company with stars like Paul Newman, Stacy Keach, Charles Dutton, and Meryl Streep to name a few.
Though perhaps best known to the general audience for her perfomances in the Alien Quatrology. The role as Lt. Ellen Ripley was originally planned for Veronica Cartwright, but the producers chose Sigourney Weaver instead.
Another stunning fact is her salary rise! In 1977 she got $50 for her six seconds appearance in Annie Hall, in 1997 she got $11 million for Alien Resurrection, a pay rise of 220,000% in just 20 years, not bad -- huh?
Read the interview by Rachel Abramowitz: Leave it to Weaver.
If you want to write to Mrs. Weaver, you might try the following
addresses. However, none of them are her private address.
Sigourney Weaver
c/o International Creative Management
8942 Wilshire Boulevard,
Beverly Hills
CA 90211
U.S.A.
Sigourney Weaver
200 W. 57th St. #1306
New York,
NY 10019
U.S.A.
To the best of my knowledge Sigourney Weaver doesn't have an
Email address, or want to keep it private.
Golden Globes Awards & Nominations:
2000 - Nominated for Best Actress (Drama) in A Map of the World.
1998 - Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in The Ice Storm.
1989 - Winner of Best Supporting Actress in Working Girl.
1989 - Winner of Best Actress (Drama) in Gorillas in the Mist.
1987 - Nominated for Best Actress (Drama) in Aliens
Golden Satellite Awards
2000 - Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
in A Map of the World.
1998 - Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
in The Ice Storm.
Academy Award Nominations
(Oscar Awards):
1987 - Nominated for best actress in Aliens.
1989 - Nominated for best actress in Gorillas in the Mist.
1989 - Nominated for best supporting actress in Working Girl.
Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations
(SAG):
1998 - Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a
TV Movie or Miniseries for Snow White.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
(BAFTA):
1998 - Winner of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in The Ice Storm.
1990 - Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Working Girl.
1980 - Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer to a Leading Film Role in Alien.
Other Awards, Nominations & Honors:
1999 - Sigourney Weaver was awarded a star of the celebrity strech of pavement on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - Nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress in Alien Resurrection.
1998 - Nominated for the
Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Best Actress in Alien Resurrection.
1998 - Nominated for the Emmy Award
as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie in Snow White.
1998 - Ranked 8th on Backwell's
39th
Annual Worst Dressed Women List (The High Priestess of Fashion
Pretense is on a chaotic couture journey - if you're looking for an "Alien"
just call Sigourney).
1998 - Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline have been named
Man and Woman of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals,
for their performances in The Ice Storm.
1997 - Ranked 6th on Blackwell's
38th
Annual Worst Dressed Women List (resembles a shrink-wrapped
mummy - in a peep-show revue).
1997 - Ranked 71st in the U.K. magazine
Empire's
"The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time".
1997 - Ranked 13th of Sci-Fi's Sexy
50 by Femme Fatales magazine.
1987 - Winner of The Saturn Award
as Best Actress in Aliens at Academy of Science Fiction,
Horror and Fantasy Films, U.S.A.
1986 - NATO (National Association of Theater Owners)
Star of the Year Award.
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