Real Name: Susan Alexandra Weaver
Was Born: October 8, 1949. Manhattan, New York City
Bio: Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, known best for the "Alien" film series. 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 with fellow-actress Meryl Streep. During the 1970s, Weaver studied English at Stanford University and then drama at Yale, where she appeared in original plays by friend and classmate, Christopher Durang...