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.

Filmography

• 2031Avatar 5 — Kiri
• 2029Avatar 4 — Kiri
• 2026The Mandalorian and Grogu — Colonel Ward
• 2025Avatar: Fire and Ash — Kiri
• 2025Dust Bunny — Laverne
• 2025The Gorge — Bartholomew
• 2023Master Gardener — Norma Haverhill
• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart — June Hart, Executive Producer
• 2022Avatar: The Way of Water — Kiri
• 2022Call Jane — Virginia
• 2021Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Dana Barrett
• OATS Studios — 贾斯珀
• 2021Oats Studios: Volume 1 — Jasper
• 2021The Good House — Hildy Good
• The Newsreader — Sigourney Weaver (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2020My Salinger Year — Margaret
• 2020Protecting the Amazon Demands Radical Change — Narrator
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance — The Myth-Speaker (voice)
• The Movies That Made Us — Self, Dana Bennett (archive footage)
• 2018Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii — Georgia O’Keeffe
• Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist — Dian Fossey (voice)
• Marvel's The Defenders — Alexandra Reid
• 2017Rakka — Jasper
• 2017The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Sigourney Weaver
• 2016A Monster Calls — Grandma
• 2016Asteroid: Mission Extreme — Narrator
• Dream the Future — Narrator
• 2016Finding Dory — Sigourney Weaver (voice)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Sigourney Weaver
• 2016Ghostbusters — Rebecca Gorin
• 2016The Assignment — Dr. Rachel Kay
• 2015Chappie — Michelle Bradley
• 2014All You Need Is Love — Narrator
• 2014Exodus: Gods and Kings — Tuja
• 2014My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It) — Elizabeth Swados (voice)
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero — Lady Starblaster (voice)
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• Political Animals — Elaine Barrish
• 2012Red Lights — Margaret Matheson
• 2012The Cabin in the Woods — The Director
• 2012The Cold Light of Day — Jean Carrack
• 2012Vamps — Cisserus
• 2012Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike — Masha
• 2011Abduction — Dr. Geraldine 'Geri' Bennett
• 2011Cedar Rapids — Macy Vanderhei
• 2011Paul — The Big Guy
• 2011Rampart — Joan Confrey
• 2011Tipping Point: The End of Oil — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Crazy on the Outside — Viki
• 2010You Again — Ramona
• 2009Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification — Narrator
• 2009Avatar — Dr. Grace Augustine
• 2009Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood — Narrator (voice)
• 2009Prayers for Bobby — Mary Griffith
• 2008Baby Mama — Chaffee Bicknell
• 2008Be Kind Rewind — Ms. Lawson
• Eli Stone — Therapist
• 2008Fragile Planet — Narrator
• 2008The Tale of Despereaux — The Narrator (voice)
• 2008Vantage Point — Rex Brooks
• 2008WALL·E — Ship's Computer (voice)
• 2007DNA: Secret of Photo 51 — Narrator
• 2007Happily N'Ever After — Frieda (voice)
• 2007The Girl in the Park — Julia Sandburg
• 2007The TV Set — Lenny
• 2006Infamous — Babe Paley
• 2006Snow Cake — Linda
• Doc Martin — American Tourist, Beth Traywick
• 2004Imaginary Heroes — Sandy Travis
• 2004The Village — Alice Hunt
• 2003Holes — Louise Walker the Warden
• 2003National Geographic : Search for the Afghan Girl — Narrator
• 2002Tadpole — Eve Grubman
• 2002The Guys — Joan
• 2002The Lost Film of Dian Fossey — Narrator (voice)
• 2001Big Bad Love — Betti DeLoreo (voice)
• 2001Heartbreakers — Max Conners
• 2001The Roman Empire in the First Century — Narrator
• 2001Through These Eyes — Narrator
• 2000Company Man — Daisy Quimp
• 1999A Map of the World — Alice Goodwin
• Futurama — Planet Express Ship (voice)
• 1999Galaxy Quest — Gwen DeMarco
• 1999Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry — Narrator
• 1997Alien Resurrection — Ripley, Co-Producer
• 1997Snow White: A Tale of Terror — Lady Claudia Hoffman
• 1997The Ice Storm — Janey Carver
• 1995Copycat — Helen Hudson
• 1995Jeffrey — Debra Moorhouse
• 1994Death and the Maiden — Paulina Escobar
• 1994The Wild Swans — Narrator
• 1993Dave — Ellen Mitchell
• 19921492: Conquest of Paradise — Queen Isabella
• 1992Alien³ — Ripley, Co-Producer
• 1992Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
• 1992The Snow Queen — Narrator (voice)
• 1991Peachboy — Narrator (voice)
• 1989Ghostbusters II — Dana Barrett
• 1988Gorillas in the Mist — Dian Fossey
• 1988Working Girl — Katharine Parker
• 1986Aliens — Ripley
• 1986Half Moon Street — Dr. Lauren Slaughter
• 1985One Woman or Two — Jessica Fitzgerald
• 1984Ghostbusters — Dana Barrett
• 1984On the Scene with the Ghostbusters
• 1984Wilderness: A Country in the Mind
• 1983Deal of the Century — Mrs. DeVoto
• 1982The Year of Living Dangerously — Jill Bryant
• 1981Eyewitness — Tony Sokolow
• 1979Alien — Ripley
• 1979O Youth and Beauty! — Marcia Lawton
• 1979The Sorrows of Gin — Marcia Lawton
• 1978Madman — Gale
• 1977Annie Hall — Alvy's Date Outside Theatre
• NOVA — Narrator
• Tomb Raider — Evelyn Wallis
• Useful Idiots

Appearances as themselves (74)

• 2025Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20 — Self / Ripley (archive footage)
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Actress
• Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films — Self - "Kiri"
• 2024Aliens Expanded — Self
• Fateful Planet — Self
• 2024Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone — Self
• 2023Disney 100: Remember That — Self
• 2023Inside Pandora's Box — Self
• 2022Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
• 2022Bonnie — Self
• 2022Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Passing the Proton Pack — Self
• Mostra, Venise — Self
• 2022Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies — Self - (archive footage)
• Secrets of the Whales — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2020Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters — Self
• La semaine des 4 Julie — Self
• Reunited Apart — Self
• 2019Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary — Self
• 2019SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout — Self
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
• 2017Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies — Self
• 2016Ghostheads — Self
• 2016The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years — Self
• Call My Agent! — Self
• 2015Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words — Self
• 2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• 2010Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora — Self
• 2010Capturing Avatar — Self
• 2009Annul Victory — Self
• C à vous — Self - Guest
• The Jay Leno Show — Self
• 2008His Highness Hollywood — Self
• 2007Helmut by June — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2007Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm — Self
• 200650 Films to See Before You Die — Self
• 2006Gorillas Revisited with Sigourney Weaver — Self
• 2005Deconstructing 'The Village' — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2003One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection — Self
• 2003Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens' — Self
• 2003The Beast Within: Making Alien — Self
• 2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Sundance 20 — Self
• 2002The Alien Saga — Self
• 2001Alien Evolution — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• Click — Self
• 1999Get Bruce! — Self
• 1999Ghostbusters 1999 — Self
• Mark Twain Prize — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The Entertainment Biz — Self
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self
• Lo + plus — Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Guest
• 1989Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Cérémonie des César — Self - Presenter
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter