Sigourney Weaver

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sigourney Weaver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Mandalorian and Grogu

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

Avatar: Fire and Ash

The Graham Norton Show

Saturday Night Live

All Movies (136)

• Avatar 52031 · as Kiri
• Avatar 42029 · as Kiri
• The Mandalorian and Grogu2026 · as Colonel Ward
• Avatar: Fire and Ash2025 · as Kiri
• Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/202025 · as Self
• Dust Bunny2025 · as Laverne
• The Gorge2025 · as Bartholomew
• Aliens Expanded2024 · as Self
• Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone2024 · as Self
• Disney 100: Remember That2023 · as Self
• Master Gardener2023 · as Norma Haverhill
• Inside Pandora's Box2023 · as Self
• Avatar: The Way of Water2022 · as Kiri
• Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/202022 · as Self
• Bonnie2022 · as Self
• Call Jane2022 · as Virginia
• Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies2022 · as Self - (archive footage)
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife2021 · as Dana Barrett
• Oats Studios: Volume 12021 · as Jasper
• The Good House2021 · as Hildy Good
• Protecting the Amazon Demands Radical Change2020 · as Narrator
• My Salinger Year2020 · as Margaret
• Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters2020 · as Self
• Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary2019 · as Self
• SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout2019 · as Self
• Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii2018 · as Georgia O’Keeffe
• Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies2017 · as Self
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)2017 · as Sigourney Weaver
• Rakka2017 · as Jasper
• A Monster Calls2016 · as Grandma
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years2016 · as Self
• Ghostbusters2016 · as Rebecca Gorin
• Finding Dory2016 · as Sigourney Weaver (voice)
• The Assignment2016 · as Dr. Rachel Kay
• Ghostheads2016 · as Self
• Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words2015 · as Self
• Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'2015 · as Self
• Chappie2015 · as Michelle Bradley
• Exodus: Gods and Kings2014 · as Tuja
• All You Need Is Love2014 · as Narrator
• My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)2014 · as Elizabeth Swados (voice)
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike2012 · as Masha
• Vamps2012 · as Cisserus
• The Cabin in the Woods2012 · as The Director
• The Cold Light of Day2012 · as Jean Carrack
• Red Lights2012 · as Margaret Matheson
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen2012 · as (archive footage)
• Rampart2011 · as Joan Confrey
• Abduction2011 · as Dr. Geraldine 'Geri' Bennett
• Tipping Point: The End of Oil2011 · as Narrator (voice)
• Paul2011 · as The Big Guy
• Cedar Rapids2011 · as Macy Vanderhei
• Capturing Avatar2010 · as Self
• You Again2010 · as Ramona
• Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora2010 · as Self
• Crazy on the Outside2010 · as Viki
• Avatar2009 · as Dr. Grace Augustine
• Dreams Come True: A Celebration of Disney Animation2009
• Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification2009 · as Narrator
• Annul Victory2009 · as Self
• Prayers for Bobby2009 · as Mary Griffith
• Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood2009 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Tale of Despereaux2008 · as The Narrator (voice)
• Fragile Planet2008 · as Narrator
• His Highness Hollywood2008 · as Self
• WALL·E2008 · as Ship's Computer (voice)
• Baby Mama2008 · as Chaffee Bicknell
• Be Kind Rewind2008 · as Ms. Lawson
• Vantage Point2008 · as Rex Brooks
• Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm2007 · as Self
• The Girl in the Park2007 · as Julia Sandburg
• Helmut by June2007 · as Self
• DNA: Secret of Photo 512007 · as Narrator
• The TV Set2007 · as Lenny
• Happily N'Ever After2007 · as Frieda (voice)
• Infamous2006 · as Babe Paley
• Snow Cake2006 · as Linda
• 50 Films to See Before You Die2006 · as Self
• Gorillas Revisited with Sigourney Weaver2006 · as Self
• Deconstructing 'The Village'2005 · as Self
• Imaginary Heroes2004 · as Sandy Travis
• The Village2004 · as Alice Hunt
• The Beast Within: Making Alien2003 · as Self
• Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'2003 · as Self
• Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'2003 · as Self
• One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection2003 · as Self
• Holes2003 · as Louise Walker the Warden
• National Geographic : Search for the Afghan Girl2003 · as Narrator
• The Alien Saga2002 · as Self
• The Guys2002 · as Joan
• Tadpole2002 · as Eve Grubman
• The Lost Film of Dian Fossey2002 · as Narrator (voice)
• Heart of the Festival2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sundance 202002 · as Herself
• Through These Eyes2001 · as Narrator
• Alien Evolution2001 · as Self
• Big Bad Love2001 · as Betti DeLoreo (voice)
• Heartbreakers2001 · as Max Conners
• The Roman Empire in the First Century2001 · as Narrator
• Company Man2000 · as Daisy Quimp
• Galaxy Quest1999 · as Gwen DeMarco
• Ghostbusters 19991999 · as Self
• A Map of the World1999 · as Alice Goodwin
• Get Bruce!1999 · as Self
• Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry1999 · as Narrator
• Alien Resurrection1997 · as Ripley
• The Ice Storm1997 · as Janey Carver
• Snow White: A Tale of Terror1997 · as Lady Claudia Hoffman
• Copycat1995 · as Helen Hudson
• Jeffrey1995 · as Debra Moorhouse
• Death and the Maiden1994 · as Paulina Escobar
• The Wild Swans1994 · as Narrator
• Dave1993 · as Ellen Mitchell
• The Snow Queen1992 · as Narrator (voice)
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise1992 · as Queen Isabella
• Alien³1992 · as Ripley
• Peachboy1991 · as Narrator (voice)
• Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge1989 · as Self
• Ghostbusters II1989 · as Dana Barrett
• Working Girl1988 · as Katharine Parker
• Gorillas in the Mist1988 · as Dian Fossey
• Half Moon Street1986 · as Dr. Lauren Slaughter
• Aliens1986 · as Ripley
• One Woman or Two1985 · as Jessica Fitzgerald
• On the Scene with the Ghostbusters1984
• Ghostbusters1984 · as Dana Barrett
• Wilderness: A Country in the Mind1984
• Deal of the Century1983 · as Mrs. DeVoto
• The Year of Living Dangerously1982 · as Jill Bryant
• Eyewitness1981 · as Tony Sokolow
• O Youth and Beauty!1979 · as Marcia Lawton
• The Sorrows of Gin1979 · as Marcia Lawton
• Alien1979 · as Ripley
• Madman1978 · as Gale
• Annie Hall1977 · as Alvy's Date Outside Theatre
• Useful Idiots—

All TV Shows (59)

• Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films2025 · as Self - "Kiri"
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney2025 · as Self - Actress
• Fateful Planet2024 · as Self
• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart2023 · as June Hart
• Mostra, Venise2022 · as Self
• OATS Studios2021 · as 贾斯珀
• The Newsreader2021 · as Sigourney Weaver (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Secrets of the Whales2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Reunited Apart2020 · as Self
• La semaine des 4 Julie2020 · as Self
• The Movies That Made Us2019 · as Self
• The Movies That Made Us2019 · as Dana Bennett (archive footage)
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance2019 · as The Myth-Speaker (voice)
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction2018 · as Self
• Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist2017 · as Dian Fossey (voice)
• Marvel's The Defenders2017 · as Alexandra Reid
• Dream the Future2016 · as Narrator
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee2016 · as Sigourney Weaver
• Call My Agent!2015 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• The Late Late Show with James Corden2015 · as Self - Guest
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero2014 · as Lady Starblaster (voice)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Political Animals2012 · as Elaine Barrish
• Finding Your Roots2012 · as Self
• The Jay Leno Show2009 · as Self
• C à vous2009 · as Self - Guest
• Eli Stone2008 · as Therapist
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
• Doc Martin2004 · as American Tourist
• Doc Martin2004 · as Beth Traywick
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• Richard & Judy2001 · as Self
• Click2000 · as Self
• The Early Show1999 · as Self
• SpongeBob SquarePants1999 · as Herself
• Futurama1999 · as Planet Express Ship (voice)
• Mark Twain Prize1999 · as Self
• The Entertainment Biz1998 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self - Guest
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Lo + plus1995 · as Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• GMTV1993 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
• Nulle part ailleurs1987 · as Self
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Cérémonie des César1976 · as Self - Presenter
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• NOVA1974 · as Narrator
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self - Presenter
• Tomb Raider— · as Evelyn Wallis