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Ellen Ripley is a Fictional Character , the Protagonist in the '' Alien '' movie series. She is played by Sigourney Weaver . Warrant Officer Ripley was heralded as a seminal role for challenging gender stereotypes, particularly in the science fiction genre, and remains Weaver's most famous role to date. In 2003, Ripley was selected by the American Film Institute as the #8 greatest hero in cinema history. (See AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes And Villains ) FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY Ellen Ripley was born January 7 , 2092 on Earth . At the age of 19, she had a daughter, Amanda Ripley MacLaren (b. 24 June 2111 ). In 2122, Ripley was employed as a Warrant Officer for the Weyland-Yutani corporation, working on the USCSS '' Nostromo '', which was towing massive quantities of raw Ore to Earth from Thedus. Along with the rest of the crew, she was awakened ten months prematurely by ''Mother'', the ship's computer, to answer a curious Transmission received from Moon LV-426 . Ripley initially refused to allow the injured sequence. The ''Nostromo'', the cooling rods removed from its reactor, melted down and exploded violently, moments after Ripley (in the Escape Ship ''Narcissus'') reached safety. In finally destroying the Alien , however, she fired the ''Narcissus'' rockets, blasting the ship far off course for any hope of a timely rescue. Thus, she and Jones the Cat would spend the next 57 years in Hypersleep , following the incidents depicted in '' Alien '' ( 1979 ). Officially, the whereabouts of the Nostromo and her crew remained unknown; it simply never returned from its journey to Thedus, and was listed as missing and presumed destroyed. Ripley's only daughter, Amanda, died 23 December 2177 , at the age 67, just two years before Ripley would be found and awoken from hypersleep. After her subsequent rescue by a salvage crew in 2179, Ripley was made a Lieutenant and returned with a team of Colonial Marines to LV-426, as portrayed in '' Aliens '' ( 1986 ) and basically became the unit's de facto leader. Ripley subsequently found herself marooned on Fiorina "Fury" 161, an outer veil mineral ore refinery and correctional facility, where she died sometime in 2179 while trying to prevent Weyland-Yutani from getting its hands on the alien queen embryo that was inside of her. (See '' Alien³ '' ( 1992 )) Various clones of Ellen Ripley were later created for the purpose of experimentation with the alien. (See '''' ( 1997 )) Ripley's life and career has been extensively expanded on in various spin-off comics and novels, many of which discount her death on Fury 161, instead providing a chronology continuing on from the end of '' Aliens ''. As such, they are not generally considered Canon . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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