Sci-fi, comedy, heavyweight drama – Sigourney Weaver’s done it all

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Weaver was the thinking man’s sex symbol.

Sigourney Weaver had to wait till she was 29 years old to achieve “overnight stardom”, when she played the iconic heroine of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller Alien. The sole survivor of that movie, she returned to play Ripley for three more Alien sequels, setting the standard for butt-kicking big screen heroines for generations to come.