page_title: List of Sigourney Weaver performances
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: List of Sigourney Weaver performances / Film
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Georges Cravenne, Sigourney Weaver et Alain Delon à la cérémonie des Césars 2000.
context_page_description: Sigourney Weaver is an American actor, playwright, and producer who first began acting in plays in the early 1970s. Throughout her career she has acted in nearly 40 stage productions. She made her film debut with a minor role in the Woody Allen-directed Annie Hall. Her breakthrough role was as Ellen Ripley in the Ridley Scott-directed Alien. She reprised the role in Aliens, this time helmed by director James Cameron. Her performance netted her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She would reprise the role in two more sequels: Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection, both of which were not as well-received. Although originally written as a man, Ripley is now regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history, and consequently, Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films.
  Although best known for her role in the Alien franchise, Weaver has also fostered a prolific filmography, appearing in over 60 films. In 1981, she starred alongside William Hurt in the neo-noir Eyewitness. Her next role was opposite Mel Gibson in the Peter Weir-directed The Year of Living Dangerously.
caption: Weaver with Georges Cravenne and Alain Delon at the 2000 César Awards
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