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Sigourney Weaver
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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.
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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.
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Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
The Daily Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Late Show with James Corden
GMTV
Honest Trailers
Finding Your Roots
The Graham Norton Show
The Newsreader
The Jay Leno Show
SNL Digital Shorts
The Movies That Made Us
The Early Show
Marvel's The Defenders
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Futurama
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Mark Twain Prize
Ghostbusters
Finding Dory
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Paul
Be Kind Rewind
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Happily N'Ever After
The Cabin in the Woods
Somerset
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Exodus: Gods and Kings
WALL·E
Chappie
Baby Mama
The Tale of Despereaux
The Village
Abduction
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
Company Man
Avatar 4
Call My Agent!
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Holes
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar 5
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Avatar
The Gorge
Ghostbusters II
You Again
Ghostbusters
Working Girl
One Woman or Two
A Monster Calls
Planet Earth
The Mandalorian & Grogu
My Salinger Year
Call Jane
Dave
Alien
A Map of the World
Secrets of the Whales
Alien³
Red Lights
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Heartbreakers
Alien Resurrection
Aliens
The Girl in the Park
The Good House
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Alien³
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Alien Resurrection
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