00:00Sigourney Weaver, Susan Alexandra Weaver was born on October the 8th, 1949 in New York.
00:30She chose the name Sigourney for herself when she was 14 after reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
00:38After graduation, Weaver traveled across the East Coast to Israel and also to France, Spain, and Holland for some time.
00:46Sigourney came back to the United States and studied English literature at Stanford University and finally drama at Yale.
00:54In 1977, Sigourney Weaver began her career in the movie Annie Hall by Woody Allen.
01:01However, only the 1979 movie Alien was the one that brought her popularity.
01:06Later, three other parts of the iconic movie came out.
01:12In 1987, Sigourney won the Saturn Award for the role of Emily Ripley and was nominated for the Academy Award.
01:20In the famous movie Ghostbusters, the actress left the image of a strong woman and personified a lady in trouble.
01:29In her character Dana Barrett's house, mystical things happened.
01:33Soon, Weaver received interesting roles in Working Girl, Gorillas in the Mist, that each brought her the Golden Globe Award.
01:42The woman became one of the most talented and popular Hollywood actresses in the 1990s.
01:48In the 2000s, Sigourney Weaver played several strong roles in dramas and comedies and improved her talent, got stronger, and revealed some new dimensions.
01:59The movies Heartbreakers, Infamous, and Avatar are the most outstanding works of that period.
02:05In the thriller Copycat, the actress's image was peculiar.
02:10The scientist who created serial killer's psychological profiles.
02:13After a maniac attacked her, Weaver's character did not go out of her apartment.
02:19Gradually, she became agoraphobic.
02:23Sigourney expressed the woman's character brilliantly.
02:26Perhaps it was her own phobia that helped her.
02:28The actress was afraid of elevators and escalators.
02:32In 2013, Sigourney Weaver took the role of the United States Secretary of State Elaine Berrish in the series Political Animals.
02:40The project brought the third Emmy nomination and the seventh Golden Globe nomination.
02:46In 2016, Weaver participated in the remake of Ghostbusters, where women took all of the lead parts.
02:53The actress got the role of Rebecca Gorin, Holzman's mentor.
02:57However, critics believed it was a cameo appearance and a reference to the original project.
03:02In 2017, Weaver participated in a fantastic short film named Rika about people fighting against reptilian conquerors.
03:13On August 18, 2017, the actress appeared in the Netflix series The Defenders as the antagonistic figure, Alexandra, who was a powerful crime boss in New York.
03:25Overall, the actress has more than 50 roles, most notably of which are The Ice Storm, Death and the Maiden, A Map of the World, Prayers for Bobby.
03:37Weaver has been called the sci-fi queen by many on account of her many science fiction and fantasy films.
03:43For her contribution to cinematography, Sigourney received a personal star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
03:50The director, Jim Simpson, and Sigourney Weaver met at a theater festival, and Jim was six years younger than his future wife, yet the age difference did not prevent the couple from becoming happy.
04:03On October 1, 1984, Simpson and Sigourney officially married.
04:09The actress could not get pregnant for a while, and in 1990, when their daughter Charlotte was born, she was 41 years old.
04:18Fortunately, everything worked out very well.
04:21Today, Sigourney is very happy about being married to such a reliable and caring person who loves his family.
04:28Sigourney is a loving mom, a wife, and amazing actress who is not hurrying to retire.
04:35She is just as attractive as she used to be at the beginning of her career with this fantastic magnetism that makes her so unique.
04:48And she is also very happy about being married.
05:04I am the only one of my friends who is not a villain, so I am the only one of my friends.
05:06She is the only one of my friends who thinks she is a villain.
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