Sigourney Weaver was born on 8 October 1949 in Manhattan. An American actress born Susan Weaver in New York, she took the name Sigourney from a character in The Great Gatsby. She trained at Yale School of Drama and worked on stage before her breakthrough role as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien in 1979, a tough heroine she played in several sequels, earning an Oscar nomination for Aliens. She starred in the comedy Ghostbusters and received two more Academy Award nominations in 1989, for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. She later appeared in the Avatar films. She is the daughter of the television executive Pat Weaver and is active in environmental causes.
Before and after
- 18 August 1949Founding of French Civil Aviation University
- 23 September 1949Birth of Bruce Springsteen
- 25 September 1949Birth of Pedro Almodóvar
- from 7 October 1949 to 3 October 1990East Germany
- 8 October 1949Birth of Sigourney Weaver
- 21 October 1949Birth of Benjamin Netanyahu
- 1 December 1949Birth of Pablo Escobar
- from 6 December 1949 to 1 January 1958La Violencia
- 8 December 1949Founding of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
More in Art, literature & culture
- 29 October 1947Founding of Şalom
- 1954Publication of The Lord of the Rings
- 1958Publication of Exodus
- from 13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989Construction of Berlin Wall
- 1 May 1999Premiere of SpongeBob SquarePants
- from 17 April 2011 to 19 May 2019Premiere of Game of Thrones
The era
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