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Actress. Born Susan Alexandra Weaver, on October 8, 1949, in New York City. At age 14, she took the name Sigourney from a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Growing up on New York’s Upper East Side as the daughter of British actress Elizabeth Inglis and NBC president Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, Weaver was never a stranger to the illustrious lifestyle of a New Yorker in the limelight. After attending private schools in Manhattan and Connecticut, Weaver graduated from Stanford University with an English degree in 1971. She spent some time living in Israel on a kibbutz before enrolling at the Yale School of Drama, where she appeared in stage productions with Meryl Streep and befriended playwright Christopher Durang. She would later make her Off-Broadway debut in Durang’s play, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe in 1974. In the mid-1970s, she appeared on the television soap opera Somerset. Weaver’s . . . |
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