Sigourney is a 20th-century American invention — chosen by actress Susan Alexandra Weaver as her stage name at age 14, taken from the character Sigourney Howard in *The Great Gatsby* (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald. **Sigourney Weaver (born 1949)** — **American actress; three Academy Award nominations (*Aliens* 1986, *Gorillas in the Mist* 1988, *Working Girl* 1988); two-time Golden Globe winner; Saturn Award eight times**. **Defined modern science-fiction heroines as Ellen Ripley across the four-film *Alien* franchise (1979-1997)** — the first female action lead in a major Hollywood franchise. **Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) — combined $5.2 billion at the box office**. **Yale School of Drama (MFA, 1974)**. **Sigourney Howard** — Daisy Buchanan's friend in Fitzgerald's novel. **The American academic-conservation Sigourney Award** honors achievements in psychoanalysis.
Subject of countless science-fiction histories.
Sigourney reduces to five — the number of conqueror.