Do we like Sigourney Weaver?
Our score: 9 out of 10. Years of backing LGBTQ+ people and conservation, no harmful words or acts found, and no court cases or accusations against her.
Weaver's off-screen life took a turn with Gorillas in the Mist in 1988, when she played Dian Fossey. She has been honorary chair of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund ever since. In a 2009 AP piece she was still at it, saying of the animals “These little gorillas just steal your heart.”
We went looking for dirt and came back with dust. Searches for court cases and accusations turned up no case with her as the defendant and no accusations from established outlets. That's honestly the whole list, so it counts as a gap in the record as much as a clean one.
On the harm check, the record points the right way. She starred as a mother turned LGBTQ+ activist in Prayers for Bobby, and in 2020 she said the story “just broke my heart and terrified me.” In 2016 the Human Rights Campaign gave her its Ally for Equality award for her advocacy. We found no anti-trans or anti-gay words from her.
On the planet, she took the Audubon Society's Rachel Carson Award in 2011, saying she was a “huge admirer” of Carson. She also won the Indianapolis Zoo's wildlife ambassador award in 2016, tied to her gorilla and conservation work. Her recent work is big franchises like Avatar and Star Wars alongside Cameron and Pascal, and none of it raised a red flag.
The recent news is cheerful. At the May 2026 ceremony she called the honour “the greatest honor I can think of,” and Pascal called her “the original space mom.” She is making her Star Wars debut in The Mandalorian and Grogu, decades after Ripley made her a sci-fi legend.
On politics, the one notable moment was at Venice in 2024, where she took a Career Achievement Golden Lion. Asked whether her work helped pave the way for Kamala Harris, she teared up and said it would make her “very happy”, and that things had been difficult since 2016. That's her own words on a contested political figure, so where you land depends on how you read it, but it's not harmful.