Sigourney Weaver Net Worth

Sigourney Weaver's Quotes

• I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.
• Well, I've always admired Margaret Rutherford. Like her, I'd like to play Miss Marple when I'm eighty.
• I'm having a wonderful time producing. There are good producers and bad producers. I've learned the hard way what not to do. The ultimate aim is to produce things I'm not actually in. I'm not looking for vehicles for myself. It's not a vanity company.
• Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.
• I'd rather work with a first-time director who's passionate about the material. I've done enough movies with old and jaded people who are just like "Let's get this over with".

Interesting Facts about Sigourney Weaver

1. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#81). [1995]
2. Attended the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conneticut.
3. Her father Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. ("Pat" Weaver), NBC-TV president (1953-55), pioneered the desk-and-couch talk show format that still survives on two programs he created - NBC's shows Today (1952) and Tonight! (1953) (aka "The Tonight Show").
4. Ranked #71 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
5. Changed her name after reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby".
6. Family: Daughter of NBC-TV executive Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. ("Pat" Weaver) and actress Elizabeth Inglis, older brother, Trajan Weaver. Uncle, actor Doodles Weaver.
7. Despite gaining fame for action roles, she has a strong dislike of guns; she's also afraid to travel in elevators.
8. Ranked #13 of Sci-Fi's Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine. [1997]
9. Speaks French and German fluently.
10. Received her Bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University in Stanford, California. [1972]
11. Received her Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut. [1974]
12. Mother of Charlotte Simpson.
13. Along with Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx, Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, she is one of only twelve actors to receive Academy Award nominations in two acting categories in the same year. She was nominated for Best Actress for Gorillas in the Mist (1988) and Best Supporting Actress for Working Girl (1988) at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989.
14. Her salary for Alien Resurrection (1997) was more than the entire cost of Alien (1979).
15. Suffered nightmares for two weeks after reading the screenplay for The Village (2004).
16. Was nominated for Broadway's 1985 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for David Rabe's "Hurly Burly", but lost to a co-star, Judith Ivey.
17. Has worked with three Bagginses. In Alien (1979), she works with Ian Holm, who played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation and Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). In The Ice Storm (1997), she worked with Elijah Wood, who played the role in the film. In Aliens (1986), the stunt double for Newt was Kiran Shah, who was also Wood's scale double.
18. Before working together on You Again (2010), she has co-starred with nine actors who have also co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis: Ray Liotta, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, Tim Allen, J.E. Freeman, Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Philip Bosco and Bill Paxton. Both have co-starred with Michelle Williams. They have also both worked with composer John Ottman and director James Cameron.
19. In many of her roles, her character has had to deal with artificially intelligent spaceships. In the Alien movies, she battles them. In Galaxy Quest (1999), much to her character's chagrin, she repeated whatever the spaceship said. In addition, on an episode of Futurama (1999), and in the film WALL·E (2008), she had the chance to voice a spaceship.
20. Was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998.