“When I
was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind
of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point
of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a
character. But the real life is more interesting.” –
Sigourney Weaver
Weaver was nearly 30 and acting for
more than 10 years before she became “an overnight success,” but once she got
on a roll she never looked back. It was
her work as the lead as Eileen Ripley in the Alien series that put her front and center. Since then, she’s done dozens of other
movies, including a number of comedies, and in recent years she’s also been
writing and producing shows.
Her acting has won her numerous
awards including Golden Globes as both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress
in the same year – the first playing Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and the second in Working Girl. She also was
nominated for Academy Awards for both movies – the only actor or actress to be
nominated for the four major acting awards in one year.
Sigourney Weaver
Susan Alexandra Weaver was born on this day in 1949 in New York City. She changed her name to Sigourney because she
wanted something that would stand out in a crowd. A brilliant student as well as actor, she did
her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence and Stanford and then earned a Master of
Fine Arts from Yale.
While everyone knows her work in the
movies, many are surprised at the breadth of her work in theatre, where she has
appeared in nearly 40 plays on and off Broadway. A star in the original Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters
II, she is reprising her work in the upcoming version of Ghostbusters, due out in 2016.
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