Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949 in New York, New York) is a Pentad foot 11½ within tall American actress perhaps best known for her portrayal of Ripley inside Alien (1979) and its sequels.

Biography
Susan began using the title Sigourney Weaver inside 1963, after the character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. She attended senior high school within New York City with fellow-actress Meryl Streep. In a period of the 1970s, Weaver studied English at Stanford University and then drama at Yale, where she appeared around original plays by friend & class fellow, Christopher Durang.

Her a share around Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien as the resole survivor, Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, ensured her role in the sequels Aliens, Alien³ and Alien: Resurrection. She was nominated for the Better Actress Oscar for portraying Ripley inside Aliens. Several of her roles since stand been inside caring information to the hard character of Ripley. Too a second swell known character she played was Dana Barrett within Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.

These are as well notable that she is one of a decade histrion to receive ii Academy Award nominations in the same month. Weaver received the Better Actress nomination for her role when gorilla gorilla obsessed Dian Fossey within Gorillas in the Mist and a Better Supporting Actress nomination for her role when a catty trustfund diaper wearing Katharine Parker (world health organization gets her comeupance) around Working Girl, opposite Harrison Ford & Melanie Griffith. She did non win either of these, however she did win the Golden World for every role, severally.

She is the girl of the late NBC television executive Pat Weaver, and his married woman, Elizabeth. She is too the niece of comedian and actor, Doodles Weaver. She is married to theatre director Jim Simpson (of The Flea Theater), and has a single baby, Charlotte Simpson.

Partial filmography
1977: Annie Hall 1979: Alien 1981: Eyewitness 1982: The Year of Living Dangerously 1984: Ghostbusters 1985: Une femme ou deux 1986: Half Moon Street 1986: Aliens 1988: Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey 1988: Working Girl 1989: Ghostbusters II 1992: Alien³ 1992: 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1993: Dave 1994: Death and the Maiden 1995: Copycat 1995: Jeffrey 1997: Alien: Resurrection 1997: The Ice Storm 1999: Galaxy Quest 2001: Heartbreakers 2002: Tadpole 2003: Holes 2004: The Village 2005: Snow Cake (post-production) 2005: ''Happily N'Ever After (post-production; voice) 2006: The TV Set (filming) 2006: Have You Heard? (filming) 2006: ''Awake (pre-production)