Sigourney Weaver: 60 and Still Sensational in Avatar

It’s only the roll of the dice that puts two 60-year-old big name actresses back to back in Redtracker. Yesterday Meryl Streep; today Sigourney Weaver. Coincidentally, neither has a close relationship with Botox or the plastic surgeon.

The Daily Mail writes up Sigourney Weaver: Who said you’re past it at 60? Good question!

Sigourney Weaver, going strong at 60 in AvatarThirty years after the 5’11” feminist icon Weaver made “Alien” , she returns to outer space as another feisty woman - botanist Dr Grace Augustine, who is involved in exploiting and colonising a planet called Pandora in James Cameron’s Avatar.

I’m struck by how women are embracing aging in America.

Today, looking effortlessly sexy in a black cashmere dress and towering heels, she walks with the confident stride of a woman who enjoys her height, turning heads even before people realise who she is.

Up close, her face is unashamedly etched with fine lines; there are no tell-tale signs of Botox or plastic surgery. ‘I find that look scary,’ she says, ‘And I like getting older. There’s nothing more inspiring to me than a woman in her 70s who’s full of life and and still useful. I never notice age in people’s faces. I just look at the whole person.’ Daily Mail

Sigourney Weaver honored at 2008 Marrakesh Film FestivalI love this photo of Weaver with her Death and the Maiden director Roman Rolanski and co-star Toby Jones at last year’s Marrakesh Film Festival.  Sigourney Weaver is not a woman trying to look small, and that’s just beautiful.

Here she is as Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar. Anne

Sigourney Weaver in Avatar