FrameThrower · Actors · Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver
17 films · 1,334 frames · top-billed in 14 · 1979–2025
Born 8 October 1949 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress. Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films. She is known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, which earned her an Academy Award nomination in 1986 and is often regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history.
A seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Weaver won both Best Actress in Drama and Best Supporting Actress in 1988 for her work in the films Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person to win two acting Golden Globes in the same year. She also received Academy Award nominations for both films.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,334 frames · top-billed in 14 · 1979–2025
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture1988
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama1988
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role1998
- Knight of the Legion of Honour2026
- International Goya Award2024
- Rachel Carson Award2011
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year1998
- Saturn Award for Best Actress1987
- Jupiter Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,334 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sigourney takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Sigourney takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Ash
2025 · Kiri
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · Kiri
Call Jane
2022 · Virginia
The Mandalorian
2019 · Colonel Ward
A Monster Calls
2016 · Grandma
Rampart
2011 · Joan Confrey
Avatar
2009 · Dr. Grace Augustine
Alien: Resurrection
1997 · Ripley
The Ice Storm
1997 · Janey Carver
Alien 3
1992 · Ripley
Ghostbusters 2
1989 · Dana Barrett
Aliens
1986 · Ripley
Ghostbusters
1984 · Dana Barrett
Alien
1979 · Ripley
Chappie
2015 · Michelle Bradley
The Cabin In The Woods
2012 · The Director
The Village
2004 · Alice Hunt
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,334 frames from Sigourney Weaver's 17 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.