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At the age of 14, Weaver began using the name Sigourney, taking it from a minor character in The Great Gatsby. She briefly attended the Brearley School and Chapin School in New York before arriving at the Ethel Walker School (Walker's) in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she developed an early interest in performance art.
Apr 2, 2014 · Susan Alexandra Weaver was born on October 8, 1949, in New York City, and began calling herself Sigourney at the age of 14, after discovering the name in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great...
5 days ago · At age 14 Weaver rechristened herself Sigourney after a character in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. By that point she had already achieved her full height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.8 meters), and she felt that the name Susan was too short for someone so tall.
Aug 15, 2022 · The name was taken from a minor character in "The Great Gatsby," and Weaver was only 14 when she began asking friends and teachers to use it to refer to her (per In Style).
Jan 8, 2021 · Sigourney Weaver Opens Up About Changing Her First Name at Age 14. Sigourney Weaver is getting candid about identity. The 71-year-old Alien actress opened up in an interview with InStyle....
Jan 4, 2023 · Sigourney Weaver plays 14-year-old Kiri in “Avatar: The Way of Water.” (20th Century Studios) Your friend Jamie Lee Curtis also got her break in genre films — with her it was horror and...
The 73-year-old actress first joined Avatar as Dr. Grace Augustine, a xenobotanist in charge of the Avatar Program who unfortunately, died at the end of the film. In Avatar: The Way of Water, Weaver will be playing 14-year-old Na’vi teenager, Kiri.
