Sigourney Weaver discusses her full career and receiving the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Two years ago, Sigourney Weaver handed the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to the filmmaker Paul Schrader. As she explains to us in a rare sit-down, she ...

Don’t call Sigourney Weaver an old lady. In fact, the “Alien” actress turned back the clock 59 years to play 14-year-old Kiri in the long-awaited sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water.” To ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Sigourney Weaver, one of the stars of writer-director Paul Schrader's latest film, "Master Gardener." Gracewood Gardens is gorgeous, historic and a heritage. In Paul ...

Born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949, in New York City, she adopted the name Sigourney at age 14, inspired by a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby.