American actress (born 1949)
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She turned Ripley into the blueprint for every action heroine who followed, then proved range mattered more than type — two Oscar nominations in one year, one for playing a primatologist in the jungle, the other for corporate comedy.
Born in New York in 1949 to a television executive and an English actress, Weaver made her screen debut in Annie Hall before Alien in 1979 gave her the role that rewrote what leading women could be in blockbusters. She carried Ripley through three more films while building a second track in Ghostbusters and later the Avatar series, franchises that became some of the highest-grossing ever made. In 1989 she won two Golden Globes in the same year for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, the first actor to do it, and collected a BAFTA for The Ice Storm in 1997. Broadway, voice work for Pixar, Em…
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I’d send out an intergalactic invitation to other species. I guarantee they would not be like the aliens in the movies I did. I think if they can get here, they could be charming.
I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened?
(Ripley is) open, honest and tries to do the right thing. I've always played Ripley as an ordinary person who is in extraordinary circumstances, and doesn't give up.
It was never important to me to display my sexuality. I didn't feel like I had to prove I was a babe to anyone.
I would rather have stayed in the theater and done comedy. Comedy in film (was) so narrow for women.
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