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Actress Sigourney Weaver is recognized as a figure in science fiction and popular culture and rose to fame with Ridley Scott’s Alien in 1979. Her character Ellen Ripley is regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history. She reprised Ellen Ripley’s character in 1986’s Aliens by James Cameron and later in 1992’ Alien 3 and 1997’s Alien Resurrection.

Known as one of the finest actresses in the entertainment industry, Sigourney Weaver reunited with James Cameron for his successful movie Avatar in 2009 and later in 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water. The actress has always been appreciated for portraying the characters on-screen with utmost honesty and perfection. The actress was being considered for a significant role in X-Men: The Last Stand but fans believe that it was right that she was not part of the movie.

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Sigourney Weaver has revealed that she enjoys spending her downtime watching The Great British Bake Off with her husband.

The Alien actor cited her half-English roots in a new interview and said that she was “terribly proud” to see the display of British diversity in the show.

“The contestants are all so supportive and nice to each other,” the 73-year-old explained. “So hard-working and they come from such different backgrounds.”

Weaver, whose most recent role is in the forthcoming Avatar: The Way of Water, explained that seeing contestants who are from many different places resonated with her.

She told Radio Times: “It’s very inspiring because right now America is so polarised, there is so much resentment and fear of immigration.”

Weaver’s mother was the English actor Elizabeth Inglis, who appeared in The 39 Steps and The Letter. Weaver has spoken about her love for England before, explaining that...

Born on October 8, 1949 in Manhattan, the commanding brunet we know and love as Alien’s iconic Ripley is from a showbiz family: Her British-born mother Elizabeth Inglis (née Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins) acted on the big screen in Hitchcock’s… Continue Reading →

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'The Letter' 1940, with Bette Davis 'The Letter' 1940 movie: Bette Davis superb in masterful studio era production Directed by William Wyler and adapted by Howard Koch from W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 play, The Letter is one of the very best films made during the Golden Age of the Hollywood studios. Wyler's unsparing, tough-as-nails handling of the potentially melodramatic proceedings; Bette Davis' complex portrayal of a passionate woman who also happens to be a self-absorbed, calculating murderess; and Tony Gaudio's atmospheric black-and-white cinematography are only a few of the flawless elements found in this classic tale of deceit. 'The Letter': 'U' for 'Unfaithful' The Letter begins in the dark of night, as a series of gunshots are heard in a Malayan rubber plantation. Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) walks out the door of her house firing shots at (barely seen on camera) local playboy Jeff Hammond, who falls dead on the ground.

1. Halloween III: Season of the Witch: Jamie Lee Curtis is the voice of the operator that talks to Dr. Dan Challis when he tries to make a call out of Santa Mira.

2. Aliens: In the extended director’s cut, the image of Ripley’s daughter is Elizabeth Inglis, Sigourney Weaver’s mother.

3. The Thing: Both John Carpenter’s version and The Thing From Another World (1951) are based off of the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell, Jr.

4. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare Peter Jackson had originally written a screenplay for this film, but it was rejected by the studio.

5. Event Horizon: The first cut of the film contained longer “Visions of Hell” scenes and much more gore than what made it into the theatrical cut. Additional footage was removed after test screenings and to receive an R-rating.

6. Two Thousand Maniacs: The story...

The actor talks about her family

My mother was the English actor Elizabeth Inglis. She appeared in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. She was in The Letter, too, with Bette Davis. She's good in it. Just a small part. She was awfully pretty – and a huge inspiration to me. I love being half English. (Yes, I drink tea!) She was at Rada with Vivien Leigh, then moved to America and left her family behind because they didn't want her to act. She always made her own way in the world and showed me, as I grew up, that it's all right to do things for yourself.

She was kind of a renegade. She was the first jogger in New York City. She used to run alongside Fdr Drive in the 60s and people would slow down in their cars and say: "You all right, lady? Shall we call the police?" because they...

The star of the Alien films and Avatar talks about feminism, 'wild men' and why being tall stopped her from playing romantic roles

One of the first things that people think about when the name Sigourney Weaver pops into conversation, along with her braininess and patrician elegance, is her height. You only have to think of the scene in Infamous when she dances with Toby Jones playing Truman Capote, in which his head reaches somewhere around her navel.

Then there's the story about how she acquired her name. She was christened Susan, but when she was 14 she decided it didn't suit a person like her who was 6ft tall in her shoes. So she seized on the name Sigourney, having spotted it in The Great Gatsby. Sigourney seemed to her to be long and curvy: much more appropriate for someone her size.

I knew all that well before I met...

Sigourney Weaver was forced to undergo years of therapy to rebuild her self-esteem after her mother dismissed her as a "plain"-looking girl during her youth.

The actress turned to her mother, stage actress Elizabeth Inglis, for reassurance about her looks when she was being bullied at school - but was traumatised when her mum described her features as ordinary.

And she insists she had to have "lots and lots of therapy" to recover from her mother's harsh remarks.

She says, "I always felt gangly. I was teased at school for being a too-tall beanpole and I yearned to be the pretty one. When I was about eight, I asked my mum if I was pretty. She said, 'No, dear, you're just plain.'

"That was, well, hard. I thought, 'Gee, if your mom doesn't even think you are pretty...' It took me a long time to realise I was prettier than plain."...