Alien was Sigourney Weaver's breakout role, but her debut as Ellen Ripley quickly established her as a character who is not without her flaws. Although s ...

The extremely corrosive acid blood of the xenomorphs has been used as a great tool of tension and suspense throughout the Alien franchise. Alien: Romulus ups that ante in a big way by removing gravity ...

After Ripley escapes with her cat, Jonesy, on the Nostromo’s escape ship just before the interstellar cargo freighter explodes, she at first breathes a sigh of relief that the monstrous alien creature ...

When Sigourney Weaver first brought Ellen Ripley to life in 1979’s Alien, she redefined what a hero in science fiction could be: resourceful, resilient, and human, even in the face of monsters beyond ...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Alien: Earth season 1, episode 5.Even though the human-synthetic hybrid Wendy seems like Alien: Earth's version of Ellen Ripley, it's actually a much more ...

The picture of Amanda that Ripley receives in 1986's Aliens when she wakes up after 57 years in hypersleep. Fun Fact: This picture is actually of Sigourney Weaver's mother. Hence the resemblance.

Bonus points for an over-the-top Bill Paxton, who ran out of scenery to chew in Aliens and hopped franchises a mere four ...

Veronica Cartwright is looking back at the time that she had to repeatedly slap Sigourney Weaver as part of a later deleted Alien scene. The actress, who played Nostromo navigator Lambert, revealed ...