Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver , known under the name of Sigourney Weaver is a Actrice and American coproducer born the October 8th 1949 with New York. She was made famous for the role of lieutenant Ripley in films of Science-fiction and horror Alien .

She chooses the first name Sigourney in 1963 according to the character of Gatsby splendid the of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Girl of the leader of the NBC, Sylvester Weaver, and of the British actress Elizabeth Inglis, it is also the niece of the actor and Acteur Doodles Weaver.

She studies the theater with the Université of Yale. She played there a part written by her comrade Christopher Durang.

Its career of actress remains marked by her participation in film of Ridley Scott, Alien - the eighth passenger , in 1979. It incarnates there lieutenant Ripley, only surviving of the slaughter perpetrated by a monster. It took again this role in the after-effects Aliens the return , Alien 3 and Alien, resurrection . One also sees it in the role of Dana Barett in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.

In 1985 it marries Jim Simpson, a director of theater which will offer to a role in 1986 in the merchant of Venice to him. And, in 1990, it gave rise to Charlotte Simpson , the April 13rd. She measures 1m82 and speaks usually French and German.

Biography

Beginning with the cinema

Sigourney Weaver is the girl of the president of the chain NBC Sylvester Weaver and the English actress Elizabeth Inglis. She follows initially courses of dramatic art, and takes down her English diploma with Stanford and is registered in Yale School off Drama of New York. She on television begins her artistic career with the theater then, before carrying out her first steps with the cinema under the direction of Woody Allen, in the dramatic comedy Annie Hall (1977).

Alien - the eighth passenger

Sigourney Weaver reaches the row of star in 1979, as of its third film, with the character of Ripley Dash in Alien - the eighth passenger of Ridley Scott, role for which it is nominated with the Oscar of the Best actress. She interprets an young woman there persecuted by Alien in a spaceship.

Of S.O.S. Phantoms with Gorillas in the fog

In the years 1980, Sigourney Weaver is illustrated in all the subjects: war (the Year of all the dangers, 1982) with the fantastic comedy (S.O.S. Phantoms, 1984). Magnet to incarnate women with character, it is the business-woman go-getter and pitiless of Working Girl (1988) at the sides of Harrison Ford. It reaches the top of its career with the role of the scientist given Dian Fossey in Gorilles in the fog, two films which are worth two nominations with the Oscars again to him.

The Return of Alien

Sigourney Weaver does not forget of it less the Ripley officer that it finds for three other episodes of famous the saga fantastic: Aliens - the return (1986) of James Cameron, Alien ³ (1992) of David Fincher and Alien, resurrection (1997) of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Of Roman Polanski to Copycat

In the years 1990, it more often plays of the deceived women who claims revenge: a woman tortured during the war in the young girl and death (1994), a paranoiac psychiatrist tracked in Copycat (1996) and a witch in White-snow (1997).

Comedy with Mr. Night Shyamalan

After the drama a chart of the world (1999), Sigourney Weaver connects five comedies back-to-back five: Galaxy Quest, where she exploits an actress the decline, Company man (2000), poisoned Beautés (2001), where she lends her features to a manipulator, Séduction in minor mode (2002), where she attracts herself the favors of a teenager, and the bite of the lizard (2003). But the Fantastique catches up with it in 2003: it integrates the prestigious casting of the film the village of Mr. Night Shyamalan. In 2007, it plays in the drama Snow cake, in which it incarnates an autistic woman vis-a-vis that, interpreted by Alan Rickman, which caused the death of his/her only daughter. The same year, it also lends its voice to the dreadful mother-in-law of cartoon film Happily Ever After ( Cendrillon & its prince (not too) charming ).

Its larger films with accompanying notes

" Snow Cake" (2007) - the praise of the difference

Sigourney Weaver: It seems to me that because of my big size, I always felt different. It is not the case of everyone. Despite everything, when you incarnate a character, even if it is a priori ordinary, you try to find what there is the single one in him: his hopes, his fears etc But I think that it is true, I always tended to privilege during my career of the characters of women in margin because of their difference… For Snow Cake, it was a true challenge, but at the same time I really wished to tell the history of this extraordinary character whom I love much. Generally, people know few things about the autism - even if they often think the opposite. However, this film brings a particular glance on a particular person who has a work and which only saw. It shows at which point an autistic person can enjoy a certain independence, insofar as its entourage is present.

" Working Girl" (1988) - the symbol of the " women fortes"

I think that one can perceive me in this film as the symbol of that which has all but which does not measure its chance. It was for me rather difficult to play this antipathetic character - but what is astonishing, it is that certain people continue to say to me: " I adore your character in Working Girl. It was right. This girl stole her fiancé." to him; There is always many for and against in their vision of this role, and often indignation. But it is true that it is a very modern character, because it is pitiless and at the same time very gifted. It represents perfectly the woman of the Eighties but probably also that of the years 2000!

The saga " Alien" - The character of Ripley

For me, Ripley represents all that I am not. It is not afraid of almost nothing. Besides it has qualities which it is necessary to be an astronaut. If something does not go, it analyzes the things in a quasi mathematical way: " If has does not function, then perhaps B, or c". And me, the actress, the emotional one, as soon as that does not turn out badly, I am there: " Arrrrrrgh!! ". I always liked to incarnate such an opposite character with my own personality and this experiment also allowed me to evolve/move in an incredible way. I was pressed besides on a person whom I knew for this role, a large ecologist, who is not afraid of nothing. I still see it and I estimate myself very happy to have been likely to be able to incarnate it with the screen because it is a not very common person. With each new realizer, Ripley became less and less idealistic. At the beginning, it has ideas very settled on the good, the evil, on the others, the laws to be respected. She evolves to somebody of much more intellectual. Progressively, it loses its illusions, it becomes vulnerable. Each time, it tries to reappear, but with 200 years of life behind it! At the end, I have the feeling that it is as if it returned among deaths. It has a very developed black humor. And perhaps it by losing finishes any humanity.

" Village" (2003) - the fantastic one

the public adores being transported far from its universe. The scenario of Nightm' particularly rained because it was about a very fine study on the way in which people can lose their illusions in a modern ultra world. I liked much to turn in this film. But, with personal capacity, I am not very attracted by the fantastic one, on the other hand much more by the way in which people use it. In the village, the inhabitants use of fantastic against their fear and their hopes. The fantastic one, when it is born from the spirit of the men, meets quite precise needs. It is that which interests me in the fantastic one.

" Galaxy Quest" (2000)/the saga " S.O.S. Fantômes" - The comedy

It is what I prefer to play. In Galaxy Quest, for example, I incarnate a character who approaches much more Ripley which I would be if I were to leave in space. It was particularly jouissif for me to make fun me of this perfect image that must adopt the women in Hollywood: to be fair, to have perfect forms, to be surface… As for S.O.S. Phantoms, I looked at two films with my daughter, and I was really happy to re-examine such a marvellous team of actors and a film also attaching… the comedy is really the kind in which I feel more at ease. And I am always in the search of a good comedy. My next comedy, The TV Set, is a very acid comedy centered around the turning of a pilot for television. This activity enormously generates money in the United States, it is terrifying. My character is absolutely convinced and defends with passion his vision according to which the public should not reflect the evening in front of television. My father worked in this field. He created the " Today Show" and the " Tonight Show" - it is him which introduced the opera and the ballet for the first time on television. To some extent, in this new comedy, I play the absolute antithesis of my father. And it is rather funny!

" Ice Storm" (1997)/" The Guys" (play over on September 11th)/" 1492: Christophe Colomb" (1992) - an image of America

It acts of three visions very different from America. Vision of the myth with 1492; The Ice Storm is the shape of satire of the American suburbs. Very a good memory. And with regard to the play, " The Guys" , it was about an ordering of my husband. For me, it was very important to take part in this testimony of the frame of mind in which one was in New York ten days after the events. It was all the more important for me I am new yorkaise. My vision of America would probably approach that of " The Guys" , because it is a new point of view of yorkais and that New York corresponds to my vision of America. It is probably not the vision just, but New York is filled people who come from the four corners of planet. And it is precisely that America, its more beautiful facet. We are a community of citizens who live in villages separated in the middle of the same city and for me, it acts there of the city of the future. All the communities must compose with the others while remaining independent from/to each other.

" Gorillas in the brume" (1989)/" The Young girl and the mort" (1992) - Cinema and engagement

In fact, I associate more these two films with the idea of insulation of these two female characters. Diane Fossey withdrew herself from the world. Its insulation obliged it to become increasingly radical to express its message on the safeguard of the gorillas. At the same time, it is it which wanted to make Gorilles in the fog - and it is its form of political commitment there. Its whole life is a political combat. Paulina, as for it, in the Young girl and death is withdrawn from the world because of what arrived to him. And they are its only will and the circumstances which will enable him to be detached from its passivity and to become active to leave itself there. This step is extremely difficult. It is in that it is committed.

" Annie Hall" (1977) - the meeting with Woody Allen

I adore Woody Allen! I also made a film with him where he was actor, Company Man. It is a pure genius. I adored his last Scoop film, in the vein of the Woody Allen old men. They is delicious. It has a true direction of the rate/rhythm and a sensitivity all new yorkaise. I would adore to turn again with him. I often repeat it to him. But nothing occurs - I do not know why! (laughter) Seriously, it was a true chance to be able to begin my career with him…

Catalog of films

Years 1970

Years 1980

Years 1990

Years 2000

Soon

  • 2007 : Vantage Not (post-production), of Pete Travis
  • 2008: Baby Mama (post-production)
  • 2008: The Bruises Despereaux off (in turning) (voice), of Mike Johnson
  • 2009: Misadventure (in turning)
  • 2008: Gypsy and Me (TV) (pre-production)

Contact

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Nominations and rewards

Oscars

Academy off Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, the USA

BAFTA Awards Ranges

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

International Chicago Film Festival

Golden Globe

Walk off Famed

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