Weaver with Bear
Sigourney Weaver (b. 1949) is an American actress known for her roles in the Alien, Ghostbusters, and Avatar films. She was heard in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as the Myth-Speaker, the unseen narrator who relates the prologue in the first episode.
Weaver met Bear, of Bear in the Big Blue House fame, backstage during a 1998 appearance on Live! with Regis and Kathie-Lee.[1]
Weaver received an Academy Award nomination for playing Ripley in Alien, and later two more Oscar nominations for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. She won Golden Globe Awards for the same films and has also received a BAFTA Award, among many other awards and nominations. Other credits include Annie Hall, Holes, appearances on Saturday Night Live and SpongeBob SquarePants, and voice work in the Pixar films WALL•E and Finding Dory and on Futurama.