Biography
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 w...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Avatar 5
2031
as Kiri
The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.

Avatar 4
2029
as Kiri
The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.

The Mandalorian and Grogu
2026
The Mandalorian, a lone bounty hunter, is tasked with capturing Grogu, a mysterious and adorable creature. Instead, he forms a strong bond with Grogu ...

Dust Bunny
2026
An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.

Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
as Kiri
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash Peop...

Alien, Terror in Space
2025
as Self (archive footage)
In space, no one can hear you scream! the catchy slogan that accompanies Alien sums up the unprecedented stakes of this film that will mark the histor...

The Gorge
2025
as Bartholomew
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, t...

Aliens Expanded
2024
as Self
Exploring James Cameron’s beloved science-fiction epic from teeth to tail, Aliens Expanded is truly the most in-depth, passionate and innovative celeb...

Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone
2024
as Self
She stood up to Alien: Sigourney Weaver has shown that women can put up a powerful fight. She became the mother of the modern action heroine in cinema...

Master Gardener
2023
as Norma Haverhill
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowa...

Inside Pandora's Box
2023
as Self
A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema

Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
as Kiri
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follo...

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
as Self
An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.

Bonnie
2022
as Self
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

Call Jane
2022
as Virginia
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to...

The Good House
2022
as Hildy Good
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts ...

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
as Dana Barrett
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Gho...

Oats Studios: Volume 1
2021
as Jasper
A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Ne...

Protecting the Amazon Demands Radical Change
2020
as Narrator
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Amazon Watch released this video in collaboration with friend and ally Sigourney Weaver. Amazon Watch is expandi...

My Salinger Year
2020
as Margaret
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020
as Self
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
2019
as Self
A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.

Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii
2018
as Georgia O’Keeffe
An original short film narrated by Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver featuring excerpts from Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal letters to her husband w...

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017
as Self
Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
as Sigourney Weaver
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
2017
as Self (archive footage)
An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.

Rakka
2017
as Jasper
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find...

A Monster Calls
2016
as Grandma
12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
as Self
The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth ...

Ghostbusters
2016
as Rebecca Gorin
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Pat...

Finding Dory
2016
as Sigourney Weaver (voice)
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did ...

The Assignment
2016
as Dr. Rachel Kay
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. Th...

Ghostheads
2016
as Self
A documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom. Join us as we travel the world meeting extreme Ghostbusters fans. Every Ghost...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015
as Self
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...

Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
2015
as Self
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Featured in the Deluxe ...

Chappie
2015
as Michelle Bradley
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come u...

Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
as Tuja
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its ter...

All You Need Is Love
2014
as Narrator
All You Need Is Love focuses on the many thousands of children that exist in and around the Thai-Burma border and specifically through the children of...

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014
as Elizabeth Swados (voice)
Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2012
as Masha
Vanya and his stepsister Sonia have lived their entire lives in their family's farmhouse. While they stayed home to take care of their ailing parents,...

Vamps
2012
as Cisserus
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has ...

The Cabin in the Woods
2012
as The Director
A group of teens journey to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a worldwide conspiracy wh...

The Cold Light of Day
2012
as Jean Carrack
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence age...

Red Lights
2012
as Margaret Matheson
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phe...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Rampart
2011
as Joan Confrey
The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own...

Abduction
2011
as Dr. Geraldine 'Geri' Bennett
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the tru...

Tipping Point: The End of Oil
2011
as Narrator (voice)
In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no one expected was that a tiny Native community, livin...

Paul
2011
as The Big Guy
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind....

Cedar Rapids
2011
as Macy Vanderhei
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

Capturing Avatar
2010
as Self
Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as...

You Again
2010
as Ramona
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Befo...

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010
as Self
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

Crazy on the Outside
2010
as Viki
A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars aft...

Avatar
2009
as Dr. Grace Augustine
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
2009
as Narrator
ACID TEST explores “the other carbon problem” – the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which could challenge the health of the ocean ecosyst...

Annul Victory
2009
as Self
Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election battle. The film documents the roller coaster ride of...

Prayers for Bobby
2009
as Mary Griffith
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. B...

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009
as Narrator (voice)
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Be...

The Tale of Despereaux
2008
as The Narrator (voice)
Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. ...

Fragile Planet
2008
as Narrator
Leave Planet Earth behind as you fly to the farthest reaches of the Universe. Float up through Earth’s atmosphere, and gain an astronaut’s view of you...

His Highness Hollywood
2008
as Self
Ian Halperin poses as a gay wannabe actor and member of the Israeli royal family to get an inside look at the Hollywood industry in this companion fil...

WALL·E
2008
as Ship's Computer (voice)
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discove...

Baby Mama
2008
as Chaffee Bicknell
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate...

Vantage Point
2008
as Rex Brooks
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have ...

Be Kind Rewind
2008
as Ms. Lawson
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal rente...

The Girl in the Park
2007
as Julia Sandburg
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. Ho...

Helmut by June
2007
as Self
An intimate portrait of iconic photographer Helmut Newton shot by his wife and fellow photographer June Newton.

DNA: Secret of Photo 51
2007
as Narrator
On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. But their crucial bre...

The TV Set
2007
as Lenny
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network e...

Happily N'Ever After
2007
as Frieda (voice)
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook exist...

Infamous
2006
as Babe Paley
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Snow Cake
2006
as Linda
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled ...

Gorillas Revisited with Sigourney Weaver
2006
as Self
More than twenty years after her murder, Sigourney Weaver recounts Dian Fossey's transformation from researcher to conservation activist.

Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
as Self
In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movi...

Imaginary Heroes
2004
as Sandy Travis
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the f...

The Village
2004
as Alice Hunt
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alte...

The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them on...

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
2003
as Self
This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both t...

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
as Self
The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew...

One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
2003
as Self
The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for the film's 2003 DVD release. The cast and crew tell...

Holes
2003
as Louise Walker the Warden
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that...

National Geographic : Search for the Afghan Girl
2003
as Narrator
She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins...

The Alien Saga
2002
as Self
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. T...

The Guys
2002
as Joan
The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must del...

Tadpole
2002
as Eve Grubman
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, an...
Through These Eyes
2001
as Narrator
For years, photographer Steve McCurry has traveled to war zones and captured the human face of conflict. He is perhaps best known for his striking pho...

Alien Evolution
2001
as Self
Mark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast members and directors, including Sigourney Weaver and...

Big Bad Love
2001
as Betti DeLoreo (voice)
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of h...

Heartbreakers
2001
as Max Conners
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. ...

The Roman Empire in the First Century
2001
as Narrator
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the p...

Company Man
2000
as Daisy Quimp
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sen...

Galaxy Quest
1999
as Gwen DeMarco
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA protector - "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart", "Lt. Tawny Madison and "Dr.Lazarus" - set off on a thril...

Ghostbusters 1999
1999
as Self
Documentary Interviews of the director and cast of the original Ghostbusters film

A Map of the World
1999
as Alice Goodwin
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property ...

Get Bruce!
1999
as Self
Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearances, from Oscar hosts and award recipients to Presi...

Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry
1999
as Narrator
Is it human conceit to attribute emotions to animal actions, or are emotions basic to life on earth? Wildlife filmmakers and scientists make a convinc...

Alien Resurrection
1997
as Ripley
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...

Alien Resurrection
1997
Co-Producer
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...

The Ice Storm
1997
as Janey Carver
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror
1997
as Lady Claudia Hoffman
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of al...

Copycat
1995
as Helen Hudson
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Jeffrey
1995
as Debra Moorhouse
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect ...

Death and the Maiden
1994
as Paulina Escobar
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

The Wild Swans
1994
as Narrator
The narration of Sigourney Weaver, the music of Jason Miles and an animated format bring to life this classic fairy tale

Dave
1993
as Ellen Mitchell
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the Pre...
Rabbit Ears - Peachboy
1993
as Narrator (voice)
In ancient Japan, a peasant couple discovers a little boy inside a giant peach. Momotaro, the Peachboy, grows up to become a courageous hero who vanqu...

The Snow Queen
1992
as Narrator (voice)
The classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a young girl searching for her playmate who was kidnapped and taken to an icy castle.

1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992
as Queen Isabella
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.

Alien³
1992
as Ripley
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...

Alien³
1992
Co-Producer
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...

Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
1989
as Self
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of tw...

Ghostbusters II
1989
as Dana Barrett
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Working Girl
1988
as Katharine Parker
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...

Gorillas in the Mist
1988
as Dian Fossey
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Half Moon Street
1986
as Dr. Lauren Slaughter
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts m...

Aliens
1986
as Ripley
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for...

One Woman or Two
1985
as Jessica Fitzgerald
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologis...

Ghostbusters
1984
as Dana Barrett
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...

Wilderness: A Country in the Mind
1984
Nature is our common impressional and biological ancestor. Its history is now, an open book of essences which we have largely, through the interventio...

Deal of the Century
1983
as Mrs. DeVoto
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; und...

The Year of Living Dangerously
1982
as Jill Bryant
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Au...

Eyewitness
1981
as Tony Sokolow
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. ...

O Youth and Beauty!
1979
as Marcia Lawton
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasin...

The Sorrows of Gin
1979
as Marcia Lawton
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.

Alien
1979
as Ripley
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew...

Madman
1978
as Gale
Killing as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The memory of his torture in a Russian mental hospital...

Annie Hall
1977
as Alvy's Date Outside Theatre
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.