News
November 2008
Sigourney honoured by Trevor Project for Prayers for Bobby (20/11)
Sigourney is to recieve an award from Trevor Project, the operator of a national suicide prevention helpline for gay, bisexual and transgender youth, for her work on 'Prayers for Bobby'. Read more
October 2008
Sigourney guests stars in Eli Stone season 2 premiere (14/10)
Sigourney guest stars in the second season premiere of 'Eli Stone' on ABC. Read more
Sigourney featured in ELLE Magazine (07/10)
Read the story at elle.com
May 2008
Sigourney to star and co-produce Prayers for Bobby (19/5)
Sigourney will take the lead role and co-produce a film for Lifetime TV called "Prayers for Bobby." She'll play Mary Griffith, a woman who initially rejects her son's homosexuality, then becomes an advocate for gay rights after his death. Read more
March 2008
Tim Allen and Sigourney reunited for Crazy on the Outside (25/3)
Sigourney and Tim Allen will star in a new comedy about an ex-con trying to lead a straight and narrow life. Read more
April 2007
Sigourney in negotiations for Baby Mama (30/4)
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sigourney Weaver will join the cast of the Universal comedy Baby Mama Read more
March 2007
Sigourney to star in TV Movie Gypsy and Me (8/3)
Sigourney Weaver will star as the famed burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee in the HBO television movie "Gypsy and Me". Read more
February 2007
Sigourney to star in Avatar (16/2)
Sigourney will be reunited with director James Cameron in the upcoming sci-fi adventure, Avatar. She will play a veteran explorer and mentor to a wounded marine leading his people to survival in an inter-planetary conflict. The movie is planned for a 2009 release. Read more
Sigourney narrates Planet Earth (14/2)
Sigourney Weaver is the narrator for the US release of the award winning BBC documentary, Planet Earth. The US series premieres on the Discovery Channel Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 8 PM ET/PT. Read more
October 2006
Sigourney revists Africa with Animal Planet (16/10)
For the first time since filming Gorillas in the Mist, Sigourney has returned to Africa to revisit the mountain gorillas for an Animal Planet documentary on the legacy of Dian Fossey and subsequent conservation work to preserve the gorillas. Read more
Sigourney joins appeal to UN to end destructive fishing practice (3/10)
Sigourney has appeared alongside environmental activists and UN ambassadors to appeal for a ban on a fishing practice known as high-seas bottom-trawling that is damaging fragile ecosystems. Read more
September 2006
Sigourney in negotiations for Girl in the Park (28/9)
Sigourney, alongside Kate Bosworth, is in negotiations to star in The Girl in the Park, a drama about a woman still traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago. Read more
Sigourney among voice cast for Tale of Despereaux (13/9)
Universal Pictures has announced that Sigourney is among those cast to voice the animated movie of The Tale of Despereaux, which is planned for a 2008 release. Read more
Sigourney rumoured to be among cast for Spring Break in Bosnia (7/9)
Croatian media have reported that Sigourney is among the cast for Spring Break in Bosnia, a film starring Richard Gere which is to dramatise the hunt for Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic. Read more
August 2006
Snowcake Premiere and Honour for Sigourney at Edinburgh Festival (16/8)
Sigourney received the new Diamond Award for her cinematic career at the Edinburgh Film Festival. She also attended the UK premiere of her new movie Snow Cake, in which she stars opposite Alan Rickman as a high-functioning autistic woman who befriends a man traumatised after a car accident. Read more
Sigourney responds to the question of Alien 5 (15/8)
Sigourney responded to press questions regarding a possible 5th Alien movie, saying that she would be willing to reprise her role as Ripley, but was uncertain of the chances that it would come about. Read more