Sigourney Weaver
Birthday: 1949-10-08
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
Snow Cake
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumat...
View Movie
Alien
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a di...
View Movie
Galaxy Quest
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieuten...
View Movie
Gorillas in the Mist
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...
View Movie
Ghostbusters
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into...
View Movie
1492: Conquest of Paradise
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect o...
View Movie
Aliens
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Ea...
View Movie
The Tale of Despereaux
Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comicall...
View Movie
Death and the Maiden
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government....
View Movie
Copycat
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer w...
View Movie
Working Girl
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretend...
View Movie
Ghostbusters II
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff...
View Movie
Heartbreakers
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. M...
View Movie
Happily N'Ever After
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes...
View Movie
Be Kind Rewind
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store...
View Movie
Deal of the Century
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a Sou...
View Movie
The Year of Living Dangerously
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of ...
View Movie
The Cabin in the Woods
Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun a...
View Movie
Dave
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret ...
View Movie
Prayers for Bobby
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply r...
View Movie
Vantage Point
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck d...
View Movie
The Village
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions se...
View Movie
Alien³
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a priso...
View Movie
Alien Resurrection
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultima...
View Movie
Eyewitness
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued whe...
View Movie
Holes
After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp ...
View Movie
Baby Mama
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires ...
View Movie
Imaginary Heroes
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shoc...
View Movie
The Gorge
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of...
View Movie
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an ...
View Movie
Infamous
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...
View Movie
Crazy on the Outside
A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison....
View Movie
Half Moon Street
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated ...
View Movie
Inside Pandora's Box
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies...
View Movie
Company Man
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He he...
View Movie
50 Films to See Before You Die
Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of th...
View Movie
The Girl in the Park
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, h...
View Movie
You Again
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl f...
View Movie
Paul
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret mil...
View Movie
Jeffrey
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes ...
View Movie
Tadpole
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks...
View Movie
The Guys
The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the edi...
View Movie
The TV Set
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his ...
View Movie
Get Bruce!
Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearanc...
View Movie
The Ice Storm
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm...
View Movie
Avatar
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but ...
View Movie
The Beast Within: Making Alien
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra...
View Movie
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredib...
View Movie
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaust...
View Movie
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for t...
View Movie
Cedar Rapids
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jo...
View Movie
Vamps
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in Ne...
View Movie
A Map of the World
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisco...
View Movie
Wilderness: A Country in the Mind
Nature is our common impressional and biological ancestor. Its history is now, an open book of essen...
View Movie
Rampart
The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles ...
View Movie
Red Lights
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, T...
View Movie
Avatar: The Way of Water
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake...
View Movie
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
View Movie
The Snow Queen
The classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a young girl searching for her playmate who was kidnappe...
View Movie
Dust Bunny
Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster she believes ate her entire family....
View Movie
Abduction
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what ...
View Movie
The Cold Light of Day
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is conf...
View Movie
Exodus: Gods and Kings
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a m...
View Movie
The Wild Swans
The narration of Sigourney Weaver, the music of Jason Miles and an animated format bring to life thi...
View Movie
Madman
Killing as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The ...
View Movie
One Woman or Two
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lo...
View Movie
Capturing Avatar
Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It us...
View Movie
Alien Evolution
Mark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast mem...
View Movie
Chappie
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, speci...
View Movie
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the ...
View Movie
Big Bad Love
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His ...
View Movie
Ghostbusters 1999
Documentary Interviews of the director and cast of the original Ghostbusters film...
View Movie
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr....
View Movie
A Monster Calls
12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's...
View Movie
Rabbit Ears - Peachboy
In ancient Japan, a peasant couple discovers a little boy inside a giant peach. Momotaro, the Peachb...
View Movie
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring intervie...
View Movie
Through These Eyes
For years, photographer Steve McCurry has traveled to war zones and captured the human face of confl...
View Movie
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman'...
View Movie
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast....
View Movie
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a...
View Movie
His Highness Hollywood
Ian Halperin poses as a gay wannabe actor and member of the Israeli royal family to get an inside lo...
View Movie
Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone
She stood up to Alien: Sigourney Weaver has shown that women can put up a powerful fight. She became...
View Movie
Ghostheads
A documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom. Join us as we travel the wo...
View Movie
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-ove...
View Movie
The Assignment
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon ...
View Movie
Ghostbusters
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear...
View Movie
Aliens Expanded
Exploring James Cameron’s beloved science-fiction epic from teeth to tail, Aliens Expanded is truly ...
View Movie
Helmut by June
An intimate portrait of iconic photographer Helmut Newton shot by his wife and fellow photographer J...
View Movie
The Sorrows of Gin
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their negl...
View Movie
O Youth and Beauty!
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice ho...
View Movie
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Thei...
View Movie
The Alien Saga
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weave...
View Movie
Avatar: Fire and Ash
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and ...
View Movie
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fle...
View Movie
The Roman Empire in the First Century
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Throu...
View Movie
Rakka
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak...
View Movie
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their...
View Movie
Finding Dory
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can...
View Movie
WALL·E
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of...
View Movie
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, bi...
View Movie
Oats Studios: Volume 1
A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the ...
View Movie
Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
ACID TEST explores “the other carbon problem” – the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, whi...
View Movie
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begi...
View Movie
My Salinger Year
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer...
View Movie
The Good House
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and lov...
View Movie
Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii
An original short film narrated by Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver featuring excerpts from Ge...
View Movie
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 2...
View Movie
Tipping Point: The End of Oil
In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no on...
View Movie
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set....
View Movie
Deconstructing 'The Village'
In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get not...
View Movie
National Geographic : Search for the Afghan Girl
She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the...
View Movie
Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry
Is it human conceit to attribute emotions to animal actions, or are emotions basic to life on earth?...
View Movie
Protecting the Amazon Demands Radical Change
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Amazon Watch released this video in collaboration with friend ...
View Movie
Annul Victory
Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election bat...
View Movie
All You Need Is Love
All You Need Is Love focuses on the many thousands of children that exist in and around the Thai-Bur...
View Movie
Fragile Planet
Leave Planet Earth behind as you fly to the farthest reaches of the Universe. Float up through Earth...
View Movie
Gorillas Revisited with Sigourney Weaver
More than twenty years after her murder, Sigourney Weaver recounts Dian Fossey's transformation from...
View Movie
Call Jane
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal ab...
View Movie
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Vanya and his stepsister Sonia have lived their entire lives in their family's farmhouse. While they...
View Movie
Master Gardener
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful esta...
View Movie
DNA: Secret of Photo 51
On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the do...
View Movie
Useful Idiots
Covers the New York luxury property market, disillusioned with writing puff pieces about the wealthy...
View Movie
We Are Not Who We Are: Making The Cabin in the Woods
A behind-the-scenes documentary showcasing the filmmaking process of The Cabin in the Woods includin...
View Movie
Sundance 20
Filmmaker Doug Pray (Scratch, Hype!) profiles a new generation of filmmakers in this original docume...
View Movie