Sigourney Weaver led the cast of Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in James Cameron’s Pandora saga, at its UK premiere at the BFI IMAX in Waterloo.
Sigourney Weaver led the cast of Avatar: Fire and Ash at its UK premiere at the BFI IMAX on the South Bank on Thursday 11 December 2025. James Cameron introduced the film by live link on the screen.
Born in New York in 1949, Weaver read English at Stanford and trained at the Yale School of Drama. She became known as Ellen Ripley in Alien in 1979, and her return to the role in Aliens brought her an Academy Award nomination.
In 1989 she became the first actor to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year, for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl.
She has belonged to Pandora since 2009, first as the scientist Grace Augustine and then as the young Na’vi Kiri. Fire and Ash is the third film in Cameron’s saga, and it returns to Jake Sully, Neytiri and the Sully family.
The premiere played on the largest cinema screen in Britain. The film opened in British cinemas on 19 December.
Oona Chaplin, Stephen Lang, David Thewlis, Jemaine Clement and Jamie Flatters joined Weaver on stage, with the costume designer Deborah Scott and the composer Simon Franglen.