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BIOGRAPHY Susan began using the name Sigourney Weaver in 1963, after a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby . She attended high school in New York City and later studied English at Stanford University , and then Drama at Yale , where she appeared in original plays by friend and classmate, Christopher Durang . She played the role of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in ''. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for portraying Ripley in '' Aliens ''. She is also remembered for playing Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II . She also played the role of an agorophobic criminal psychologist, Dr. Helen Hudson, in the 1995 movie '' Copycat ''. She is one of only ten thespians to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year. Weaver received a Best Actress nomination for her role as gorilla obsessed Dian Fossey in '' Gorillas In The Mist '' and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the bitchy trustfund baby (who gets her comeuppance) Katharine Parker in '' Working Girl '', opposite Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith . She did not win either one, but she did win a Golden Globe for each role. She is the daughter of the late NBC television executive Pat Weaver , and his wife, the former Desirée Hawkins Ingles, a former British actress, who (as of 2006) is now in her 90s. Sigourney Weaver is also a niece of Comedian and Actor , Doodles Weaver . Since 1984 she has been married to theater director Jim Simpson (of The Flea Theater), who is tall enough to almost come nose-to-nose, and they have one child, Charlotte Simpson (born 1990). By her fans she is considered the greatest female basketball player ever because of a stunt she performed in PARTIAL FILMOGRAPHY EXTERNAL LINKS |
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