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Ellen Louise Ripley is a fictional character and the original protagonist of the Alien film series, played by American actress Sigourney Weaver.Considered one of the greatest characters in science fiction film history, the character earned Weaver worldwide recognition, and remains her most famous role to date.
Amanda Ripley-McClaren, nicknamed "Amy" by her mother, is Ellen Ripley's daughter. Posthumously introduced in Aliens , she died at age sixty-six, two years before the events of the film. [ 3 ] Amanda is the protagonist in the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation , which takes place fifteen years after the events of Alien and forty-two years before ...
She made her screen debut with a minor role in the romantic comedy film Annie Hall (1977) before her breakthrough role as Ellen Ripley in the science fiction horror film Alien (1979). She reprised the role in the sequel Aliens (1986) earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Ripley is regarded as a significant female ...
Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years aboard a shuttlecraft after destroying her spaceship, the Nostromo, to escape an alien creature that slaughtered her crew. [i] Ripley is rescued and debriefed by her Weyland-Yutani Corporation employers who doubt her claim about alien eggs in a derelict ship on the exomoon LV-426, [ii] now the site of a terraforming colony.
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200 years after the events of Alien 3, military scientists aboard the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley, designated Ripley 8, using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. The Xenomorph queen's DNA has been combined with Ripley's, resulting in the clone growing up with an embryo inside it. The scientists extract the ...
One of them, Kimberly Malnory, was brutally murdered at the age of 26 alongside her husband Gregory in 1997. The other died in a car crash two years later at the age of 18. Both left behind baby ...
Ellen Greenberg was found dead in 2011 in her Philadelphia apartment with 20 knife wounds and numerous bruises. Authorities ruled her death a suicide. Fourteen years later, the pathologist who ...