Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#94
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sigourney Weaver represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 54 years in, and Sigourney is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Sigourney Weaver appears in 67 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sigourney. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Cameron, Jon Favreau, Scott Derrickson and others, Sigourney Weaver helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Disney 100: Remember That (2023) as Self · Alien (1979) as Ripley · WALL·E (2008) as Ship's Computer (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #94 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
67
1977–2031
Career length
54 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Most frequent director
James Cameron
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With James Cameron
Most common genre
Drama
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
8.4 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Alien, Alien, Annie Hall — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
8.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
8.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Alien, Alien, Annie Hall.
Most productive era
2010s
18 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s | 2030s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.61 film | 6.73 films | 6.83 films | 6.77 films | 6.03 films | 6.34 films | — |
| Action | — | 8.11 film | 6.53 films | 7.22 films | 6.07 films | 5.54 films | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 8.11 film | 6.82 films | 6.52 films | 5.74 films | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 7.61 film | 7.03 films | 6.92 films | 6.15 films | 6.17 films | 6.82 films | — |
| Sci-Fi | 9.21 film | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.51 film | 6.33 films | 5.93 films | 6.01 film | — |
| Romance | 7.61 film | 6.72 films | — | 6.43 films | 5.82 films | 7.02 films | — |
| Horror | 8.82 films | — | 6.43 films | — | 6.33 films | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1977Annie Hall
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alvy's Date Outside Theatre.
First Nutevio masterpiece
1979Alien
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2031Avatar 5
The current state of the argument, as Kiri.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
67 of 67 films
as Ripley
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Ripley
Directed by James Cameron
as Ripley
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Dr. Grace Augustine
Directed by James Cameron
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 74 titles · 75 total credits · active 1977–2031
Avatar 5
2031 · Kiri
Avatar 4
2029 · Kiri
The Mandalorian and Grogu
2026 · Colonel Ward
The Gorge
2025 · Bartholomew
Dust Bunny
2025 · Laverne
Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20
2025 · Self
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025 · Kiri
Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
2025 · TV · Self - "Kiri"
Fateful Planet
2024 · TV · Self
Master Gardener
2023 · Norma Haverhill
Disney 100: Remember That
2023 · Self
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
2023 · TV · June Hart · Executive Producer
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · Kiri
Call Jane
2022 · Virginia
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022 · Self - (archive footage)
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022 · Self
Bonnie
2022 · Self
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 · Dana Barrett
The Good House
2021 · Hildy Good
My Salinger Year
2020 · Margaret
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020 · Self
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
2019 · Self
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · TV · The Myth-Speaker (voice)
The Movies That Made Us
2019 · TV · Self
The defining work
#1
Self
Disney 100: Remember That (2023)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Sigourney Weaver a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Ripley
Alien (1979)
Performance score9.3
Alien asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ripley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Ripley
Aliens (1986)
Performance score8.6
Aliens asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ripley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Ripley
Alien (1979)
Performance score8.6
Alien asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ripley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self
Start here. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest statement of what Sigourney Weaver does — accessible, 36 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sigourney at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Alien (1979)
A deliberate change of key after Disney 100: Remember That — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Alien (1979)
Same director as Alien, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Aliens (1986)
Keeps the science fiction register of Alien but asks for a colder reading of it.
Avatar (2009)
Same director as Aliens, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Cameron
Director
6 films together
Notably Aliens
Ridley Scott
Director
4 films together
Notably Alien
Ivan Reitman
Director
3 films together
Notably Ghostbusters
Andrew Stanton
Director
2 films together
Notably WALL·E
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Annie Hall
Peter Weir
Director
1 film together
Notably The Year of Living Dangerously
Michael Apted
Director
1 film together
Notably Gorillas in the Mist
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Working Girl
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Alien³
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Death and the Maiden
Jon Amiel
Director
1 film together
Notably Copycat
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ice Storm
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably Alien Resurrection
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Galaxy Quest
David Mirkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Heartbreakers
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Holes
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Village
Douglas McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably Infamous
Marc Evans
Director
1 film together
Notably Snow Cake
Michael McCullers
Director
1 film together
Notably Baby Mama
Michel Gondry
Director
1 film together
Notably Be Kind Rewind
Pete Travis
Director
1 film together
Notably Vantage Point
Russell Mulcahy
Director
1 film together
Notably Prayers for Bobby
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably You Again
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably Cedar Rapids
John Singleton
Director
1 film together
Notably Abduction
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Paul
Amy Heckerling
Director
1 film together
Notably Vamps
Drew Goddard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cabin in the Woods
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Lights
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The Assignment
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters
J. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together
Notably A Monster Calls
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Wallace Wolodarsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good House
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Paul Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably Master Gardener
Bryan Fuller
Director
1 film together
Notably Dust Bunny
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gorge
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mandalorian and Grogu
Tom Skerritt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Veronica Cartwright
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Harry Dean Stanton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
John Hurt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Ian Holm
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Yaphet Kotto
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Bolaji Badejo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Helen Horton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Alien
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Cameron
Director
6 films together · 5.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AliensRidley Scott
Director
4 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AlienIvan Reitman
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
GhostbustersAndrew Stanton
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
WALL·EScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GorgeWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Annie HallRussell Mulcahy
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Prayers for BobbyJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mandalorian and GroguJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghostbusters: AfterlifeJ. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Monster CallsMarc Evans
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snow CakeDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Galaxy QuestRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death and the MaidenAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HolesAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ice StormMichael Apted
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gorillas in the MistGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PaulBryan Fuller
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dust BunnyDrew Goddard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cabin in the WoodsPeter Weir
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Year of Living DangerouslyDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alien³Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Working GirlNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)Douglas McGrath
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InfamousM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VillageJon Amiel
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CopycatPete Travis
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vantage PointJean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alien ResurrectionAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You AgainMichel Gondry
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Be Kind RewindWallace Wolodarsky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Good HouseRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red LightsDavid Mirkin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeartbreakersPaul Schrader
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Master GardenerMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cedar RapidsMichael McCullers
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baby MamaJohn Singleton
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AbductionWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AssignmentPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostbustersAmy Heckerling
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VampsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Alien
as Ripley
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Annie Hall
as Alvy's Date Outside Theatre
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Sigourney Weaver has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 8.4 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #131 of 681 | #40 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 0 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 3 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.0 |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi | Crime, Mystery, Drama, Romance |
| Directors | Ridley Scott | David Fincher, Michel Gondry |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Screen presence, Villain presence | Quiet performance, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1979–1979 | 2004–2007 |
| Most iconic role | Ripley — Alien | Stan — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| Most rewatchable film | Alien | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Sci-Fi Movies
Our editors cannot separate them on the catalogue as it stands. Sigourney Weaver and Mark Ruffalo score within a rounding error of each other.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
54 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
21 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Alien
as Ripley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Copycat
as Helen Hudson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Mandalorian and Grogu
as Colonel Ward
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Holes
as Louise Walker the Warden
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Alien
as Ripley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
Keep reading
From the magazine
If you like this performer
Mark Ruffalo
Works with the same directors — David Fincher
Tom Hanks
Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
Bonnie Hunt
Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
Matt Damon
Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
Michael Caine
Built a career in the same territory: sci-fi and adventure
Morgan Freeman
Works with the same directors — David Fincher
Have your say
Community
Which Sigourney Weaver performance holds up best?
Our readers argue about this one. Make your case, or read the ranked debate already in progress.
Join the conversation
Reference
Continue exploring
Trending performers
Directors they work with
