Susan Alexandra “Sigourney” Weaver (photo ©Gage Skidmore) was born on October 8, 1949 in New York, USA. Her father Sylvester Weaver was an NBC executive and her uncle Winstead Sheffield Glenndenning Dixon “Doodles” Weaver was an actor and a musician. She was a young girl when she started using the nickname Sigourney, after a character from the novel “The Great Gatsby”.

Sigourney Weaver proved through the years to be a versatile actress but many call her the science fiction queen for the successes she had in that genre and above all for the importance of her role as Ellen Ripley.