Alien 3
Cast
Cast
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[thumb\|[Sigourney Weaver](/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver "Sigourney Weaver") reprised her role as [Ellen Ripley](/wiki/Ellen_Ripley "Ellen Ripley")](/wiki/File:Sigourney_Weaver_1989_Academy_Awards_%28cropped%29.jpg "Sigourney Weaver 1989 Academy Awards (cropped).jpg")

* [Sigourney Weaver](/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver "Sigourney Weaver") as [Ellen Ripley](/wiki/Ellen_Ripley "Ellen Ripley"), reprising her role from the previous two *Alien* films. Ripley crash\-lands on Fiorina 161 and is once again burdened with the task of destroying another of the alien creatures. Weaver approved of David Twohy's script and signed on, but demanded a larger salary of $4–5 million, plus co\-producing credit. She also requested for the action not to rely on guns.
* [Charles S. Dutton](/wiki/Charles_S._Dutton "Charles S. Dutton") as Leonard Dillon, one of Fiorina's inmates who functions as the spiritual and de facto leader amongst the prisoners and attempts to keep the peace in the facility.
* [Charles Dance](/wiki/Charles_Dance "Charles Dance") as Jonathan Clemens, a former inmate who now serves as the facility's doctor. He treats Ripley after her escape pod crashes at the start of the film and forms a special bond with her. Before he is killed by the Alien, Clemens laments to Ripley why he was originally sent to Fiorina, describing it as "more than a little melodramatic." Fincher initially offered the role to [Richard E. Grant](/wiki/Richard_E._Grant "Richard E. Grant"), hoping to reunite him with *[Withnail and I](/wiki/Withnail_and_I "Withnail and I")* co\-stars Ralph Brown and Paul McGann.
* [Brian Glover](/wiki/Brian_Glover "Brian Glover") as Harold Andrews, the prison warden. He believes Ripley's presence will cause disruption amongst the inmates and attempts to control the rumors surrounding her and the creature. He rejects her claims about the existence of such a creature, only to be killed by it.
* [Ralph Brown](/wiki/Ralph_Brown "Ralph Brown") as Francis Aaron, the assistant of Superintendent Andrews. The prisoners refer to him by the nickname "85", after his [IQ](/wiki/Intelligence_quotient "Intelligence quotient") score, which annoys him. He opposes Ripley's insistence that the prisoners must try to fight the Alien, and repudiates her claim that Weyland–Yutani will collect the alien instead of them.
* [Paul McGann](/wiki/Paul_McGann "Paul McGann") as Walter Golic. A mass\-murderer and outcast amongst the prison population, Golic becomes very disturbed after being assaulted by the Alien in the prison's underground network of tunnels, gradually becoming more and more obsessed with the Alien. In the Assembly Cut of the film, his obsession with and defense of the creature lead to murder and his own demise, and his actions jeopardize the entire plan.
* [Danny Webb](/wiki/Danny_Webb_%28actor%29 "Danny Webb (actor)") as Robert Morse, an acerbic, self\-centered, and cynical prisoner. Albeit wounded by the Weyland–Yutani team, Morse is the only survivor from the entire Fiorina 161 population (including Ripley).
* [Lance Henriksen](/wiki/Lance_Henriksen "Lance Henriksen") as the voice of the damaged [Bishop](/wiki/Bishop_%28Aliens%29 "Bishop (Aliens)") android, as well as playing a character credited as Bishop II, who appears in the film's final scenes, claiming to be the human designer of the android, who wants the Alien Queen that was growing inside Ripley for use in Weyland\-Yutani's bioweapons division. The character is identified as "Michael Bishop Weyland" in certain tie\-in materials.
* [Tom Woodruff Jr.](/wiki/Tom_Woodruff_Jr. "Tom Woodruff Jr.") as the Alien known as ["Dragon"](/wiki/Alien_%28creature_in_Alien_franchise%29%23%22Dragon%22 "Alien (creature in Alien franchise)#").Alien3 audio commentary, Alien Quadrilogy boxset This Alien is different from the ones in previous installments due to its host being quadrupedal (a dog in the theatrical cut, an ox in the assembly cut). Initially a [visual effects](/wiki/Visual_effects "Visual effects") supervisor, Woodruff decided to take the role of the creature after his company, Amalgamated Dynamics, was hired by Fox. Woodruff said that, following Sigourney Weaver's advice, he approaches the role as an actor instead of a stuntman, trying to make his performance more than "just a guy in a suit." He considered the acting process "as much physical as it is mental."
* [Pete Postlethwaite](/wiki/Pete_Postlethwaite "Pete Postlethwaite") as David Postlethwaite, an inmate smarter than most who is killed by the Alien in the bait\-and\-chase sequence.
* [Holt McCallany](/wiki/Holt_McCallany "Holt McCallany") as Junior, the leader of the group of inmates who attempt to rape Ripley. He has a tattoo of a tear drop underneath his right eye. In the Assembly Cut, he sacrifices himself to trap the Alien as redemption.
* [Peter Guinness](/wiki/Peter_Guinness_%28actor%29 "Peter Guinness (actor)") as Peter Gregor, one of the inmates who attempts to rape Ripley; he is bitten in the neck and killed by the Alien during the bait\-and\-chase sequence.
* Danielle Edmond as Rebecca "Newt" Jordan, the child Ripley forms a maternal bond with in the previous film who briefly returns as a corpse being autopsied. [Carrie Henn](/wiki/Carrie_Henn "Carrie Henn") was unable to reprise her role as Newt as she was too old for the part so Danielle Edmond took over the role in this installment for the brief autopsy scene with Newt's corpse.
* [Christopher Fairbank](/wiki/Christopher_Fairbank "Christopher Fairbank") as Thomas Murphy.[*Alien 3*](https://web.archive.org/web/20170531035432/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a6efb05) at the [British Film Institute](/wiki/British_Film_Institute "British Film Institute")
* [Phil Davis](/wiki/Phil_Davis_%28actor%29 "Phil Davis (actor)") as Kevin Dodd.
* [Vincenzo Nicoli](/wiki/Vincenzo_Nicoli "Vincenzo Nicoli") as Alan Jude.
* [Leon Herbert](/wiki/Leon_Herbert "Leon Herbert") as Edward Boggs.
* [Niall Buggy](/wiki/Niall_Buggy "Niall Buggy") as Eric Buggy.
* Hi Ching as Company Man.
* Carl Chase as Frank Ellis.
* [Clive Mantle](/wiki/Clive_Mantle "Clive Mantle") as Clive William.
* [DeObia Oparei](/wiki/DeObia_Oparei "DeObia Oparei") as Arthur Walkingstick.
* Paul Brennen as Yoshi Troy.
* [Michael Biehn](/wiki/Michael_Biehn "Michael Biehn") as [Corporal Dwayne Hicks](/wiki/Dwayne_Hicks "Dwayne Hicks") (archive picture only)


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