Sigourney Weaver Fansite

Ellen Ripley is the main character in the Alien movies. And, in every movie, without fail (as if they could get anybody new), Ripley is played by Sigourney Weaver.

At the beginning of the movies Ripley is a pilot for a commercial freighter. She travels the universe with her crew towing raw materials from place to place. But that all comes to an end when the first alien infects one of her crewmates and manages to kill the rest of the crew. Only Ripley survives, and she puts herself into stasis.

She’s found 57 years later and, after a period of re-adjustment, starts her life over again. But she’s approached by officials from her old company looking to have her along on a trip to a colony that’s stopped responding. The catch? The colony’s on the same planet the alien came from. After some hemming and hawing she goes along, and meets the same terror - but on a grander scale, as she’s forced to fight against a swarm of the creatures. She does so, escaping the planet (after a titanic battle with the queen alien) with an android, a marine and a little girl they found on the planet, the only survivor of the colony.

But things go bad again, and their ship - on its way back to Earth - crash lands on a prison planet. All members but Ripley die, and as if it couldn’t get worse than to be trapped on a planet full of male convicts, it becomes apparent that an alien egg has come along with Ripley. Even worse, too, she discovers that she’s been infected - with a queen. In the end Ripley throws herself into a lava pit to kill the alien inside herself.

But that’s not the end. The company that had originally tried to capture the alien via Ripley clones her using DNA they found in the lava pit. And, with her comes the alien queen, which they use to spawn a new generation of the creatures on one of their ships - though this is a completely military-owned ship at this point, and its over a hundred years after Ripley killed herself. Working together with a band of hapless mercenaries this new Ripley, part human and part alien, gets off the ship and destroys the whole thing before it can reach Earth and spread the infection.

What happens to Ripley’s clone after that is, as of yet, unknown. But if there’s ever another movie needed, chances are good they’ll bring Weaver in again.