Sigourney Weaver

Birth Date: 08/10/1949

Susan Alexandra Weaver,

A New York native trained at Stanford and the Yale School of Drama, this acclaimed performer carried her commanding presence from live action into the recording booth. Best known for voicing the Axiom ship's computer in WALL-E, Dr. Grace Augustine in James Cameron's Avatar: The Game, and narrating The Tale of Despereaux, she stands among cinema's most respected living figures.

Sigourney Weaver’s Reach Into Voice Performance

Decades before audiences associated her with a recording booth, the New York actress had already built a reputation on classic stage work and a breakout turn as Ellen Ripley. That same authority translated cleanly into voice work, where directors turned to her for characters defined less by appearance than by tone and command. Her vocal credits span animated features, documentary narration, and video game performances, a body of work that grew alongside her live action career rather than replacing it.

WALL-E and the Voice of the Axiom

Pixar’s 2008 feature handed her a part with no body and no face, only a presence felt through the ship’s intercom. As the Axiom’s automated computer, she supplied the calm, institutional voice guiding the vessel’s passengers, a role that worked precisely because it carried weight without ever raising its pitch. The performance sits among the more recognizable elements of a film driven largely by sound design and minimal dialogue.

The Avatar Franchise and Dr. Grace Augustine

Her connection to James Cameron’s universe extends past the live action films. For the 2009 tie-in title James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, she returned as Dr. Grace Augustine, lending the scientist’s voice to an interactive prequel set before the events of the first movie. The character became a throughline across her work with Cameron, later reprised on screen in the sequels.

Narration and Animated Storytelling

Storybook narration suited her measured delivery. She voiced the narrator in Universal’s The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and earlier handled narration duties on animated adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen tales, including The Snow Queen and The Wild Swans. Family animation gave her room to play lighter notes too, voicing Frieda in Happily N’Ever After and appearing as Lady Starblaster in an episode of Disney’s Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero.

Carrying Ripley Into Gaming

The 2014 survival horror title Alien: Isolation brought her back to the role that started everything, recording new dialogue as Ellen Ripley for the game’s downloadable content. The return let longtime players hear the original voice tied to the franchise’s most famous character, decades after the first film. A cameo as herself in Pixar’s Finding Dory (2016), heard over an institute intercom, rounded out her later voice appearances.