Celebrity Biographies
Sigourney Weaver
Although talking about Sigourney Weaver inevitably means referring to Lieutenant Helen Ripley, her character from Alien , and although we still want to see her face off against the stubborn eighth passengers over and over again, she has managed to make us believe in any role. when she is bad, even the galactic monsters tremble, and she also moved us as a victim eaten away by the desire for revenge. Right now she is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood .
With proven versatility, she represents the ideal of today’s American woman: tough, strong, forceful, but with a maternal and loving side. According to her words, her character is the complete opposite in real life. “Ripley is brave, but I am not, more cautious and cowardly. Every time I play her, I am struck again by what an interesting woman she is…at the other end of what I am”.
Born in New York on October 8, 1949, Susan Alexandra Weaver is the daughter of one of the great executives of American television, Sylvester “Pat” Weaver, president of NBC, one of the great networks, a pioneer of various television formats today. fashion. Her mother, British actress Elizabeth Inglis , had been an extra in 39 Steps and a supporting role in Wyler’s The Letter , but she sacrificed her career for her dream: a happy family. At school, it was already appreciated that Susan was the tallest in the class, but also the funny one. At fourteen she changed her name, in honor of Sigourney Howard, one of the characters in The Great Gatsby .. She graduated in English from Stanford, and went on to the Yale University School of Dramatic Arts, where she had Meryl Streep as a classmate , with whom she had already met at school.
After a play, he made his film debut in 1977, taking part in several seconds in Woody Allen ‘s Annie Hall . Two years later she would get the role that she made famous, that of Ripley in Alien, the eighth passenger , today a science fiction classic. Her success provides him with the opportunity to prove her worth. She plays a British intelligence officer stationed in Jakarta in Peter Weir ‘s The Year of Living Dangerously , shot in Australia with Australia’s most famous actor: Mel Gibson .. Such a co-star made a great impression on Sigourney, who even declared that she would marry such a man. And she found it, because after the filming she fell in love with the actor Jim Simpson, whom she married, especially because she looked like Gibson. “When I said that I meant that Mel has great self-confidence, he is natural and easy going, and a normal guy who takes care of his wife and his children. When I met Jim, I found in him all those qualities of Mel, especially his simplicity, delicacy and sense of humor”, explains the actress.
Currently, Simpson and Sigourney are the parents of a girl, and they have filmed The Guys together , not yet released in Spain, starring both of them, and directed by him. Professionally, she has established herself with hits like Ghostbusters , andAliens, the return , while in La calle de la crescent he shares a cast with Michael Caine . Her best year is 1988, when she was nominated twice for an Oscar, as best actress for her role as the biologist Dian Fossey , in Gorillas in the Mist , and as best secondary, for her role as a villain in Arms of a Woman . Ultimately, she didn’t win either of them. She overcomes the challenge of making Isabella the Catholic credible in 1492. The Conquest of Paradise , and then plays her most complex role, that of Paulina Escobar, a victim of torture turned executioner in La muerte y la doncella , by Roman Polanski. He gets good box office results with the new Alien installments , thanks to the good work of directors such as David Fincher , author of the third, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet , responsible for Alien Resurrection . With apparent ease, Sigourney is capable of going from drama ( The Ice Storm or My Map of the World ) to comedy ( The Seductresses and Heroes Out of Orbit ), or even starring in children’s stories ( Snow White or The Curse of the Holes , her last work released in Spain).
She has just finished Imaginary Heroes , in which she plays a mother who has to face her worst nightmare: the suicide of her favorite son. Her next work will be The Forest , by M. Night Shyamalan . Surely, the director of The Sixth Sense will terrify us again with the adventures of the inhabitants of a town, which in the 19th century
they discover that the forest around them is inhabited by strange creatures. And while Alien vs. Predator , which will be directed by PW Anderson, this time humanity will have to face the aliens without Ripley.