She was 30 years old when she played the role of Ellen Ripley in the film "Alien" which was released in 1979. She was 41 years old when she reprised her role as Ellen Ripley in the film "Aliens" which was released in 1986. She was 47 years old when she played Ripley in "Alien: Resurrection" which was released in 1997.
From my calculations (correct me if I'm wrong), in Aliens (that is 57 years after Alien) Ripley's daughter Amanda would be 68, which makes her about 11 years old at the time of events from Alien, therefore Ripley couldn't possibly be in her early 20s, for example.
Apparently she was impregnated when her cryotube was compromised and the face hugger's acid blood disrupted the Sulaco's peaceful voyage home. Why did Ripley hate aliens so much in aliens and Alien3 when she had no issue with them before that?
57 years later, Ripley awakes from her stasis. Her testimony regarding the Alien is met with extreme skepticism; she loses her space flight license as a result of her "questionable judgment," and finds out that her daughter, Amanda, is dead.
In theory, she's subjectively 32 years of age throughout the events of Alien, Aliens and Alien³ (born 2092, shipped out 2124) but we don't really get much backstory to explain how much time she's spent in hypersleep since birth, nor do we know how much one ages during hypersleep.
The alien-fighting warrant officer revealed her shaved head in the third instalment of the successful franchise, which had her stranded on a prison spaceship. “I think it brings out the faces and the vulnerability of these actors very much,” she said of her and her fellow cast mate's shorn locks.
Below him appears to be one of the alien's many eggs, partially encompassing Brett's body. Fearing that Dallas will meet the same fate as Brett clearly has, Ripley uses her flamethrower to torch the resin, killing Dallas and sparing him the horror of being absorbed into a Xenomorph egg.
Two possibilities immediately present themselves: She was infested with an embryo that was eventually meant to become a queen. It's possible the gestation time for that particular xenomorph form is longer, to allow for more complex brain development or the like. She was infested while she was still in hibernation.
Ripley (ID# 759/L2-01N) is born in Olympia, Luna, UA. She was 30 when Alien takes place (June 2122). In Aliens and Alien3 she's 87 in birth years, but still essentially 30 years old.
Upon her reunion with Ripley 8 (now exhibiting Xenomorph traits) the Queen had moved past the egg laying stage and developed a massive womb, Ripley's genetic "gift", according to the maddened Dr. Gediman. The Newborn emerges from the womb, the Queen's first live birth.
Unfortunately Ripley was carrying a Queen Alien embryo inside of her, which the company, Weyland Yutani, wanted to preserve to produce biological weapons. Ripley kills herself to avoid this. Centuries after the death of Ripley, scientists were able to clone her using DNA acquired from the incidents in Alien 3.
When Ripley tries to escape from Ash, she suddenly has a nosebleed for no reason. This was actually supposed to tie in to an earlier deleted scene where she suffers a decompression injury, but the sequence was cut from the film.
Unfortunately, Ripley learns that she was floating through space for an astonishing 57 years before being found. Ripley also later learns that her daughter passed away two years before she was discovered, but while this confirms the film's timeline of events, it still is not explained how this was revealed to Ripley.
Ripley soon learns that during her cryostasis aboard the escape pod, she was attacked by a Face Hugger, and impregnated with a Xenomorph embryo. A scan using the escape pod's barely functioning medical apparatus reveals this baby is none other than an Alien Queen.
Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, military scientists on the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley, designated Ripley 8, using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. The Xenomorph queen's DNA has been combined with Ripley's, so the clone grows up with an embryo inside it.
Director Ridley Scott offers a unique perspective on the ordeal when he suggests that Ash has underlying sexual desires for Ripley that he cannot control or understand, causing his circuits to fry.
In Alien 3, Ripley gets infected with a Xenomorph embryo by a Facehugger and lands on a prison planet following the unceremonious deaths of Hicks and Newt.
To sell that moment, actor Sigourney Weaver came up with the idea of Ripley having a psychological crutch to help her survive: muttering "You Are My Lucky Star", which we as the audience presume to be a comforting favourite childhood song.
Amanda is the daughter of Sigourney Weaver's character Ellen Ripley. The story is set fifteen years after the events of the original Alien film as Amanda goes out into the dark reaches of space to find out what happened to her mom.
Ripley suspects that she has a Chestburster inside and has it confirms it, when 85 gives her an x-ray. Even when Ripley confronts the Xenomorph, it won't kill her because it knows she is carrying a Queen. X-Ray of Ripley showing the Queen Chestburster.
Following the destruction of the original Xenomorph Hive and the derelict on Acheron, and the death of the Runner on Fiorina "Fury" 161, Ellen Ripley committed sacrificial suicide to destroy the last known Xenomorph specimen in existence — the embryonic Queen developing inside her.
At one point, Ripley was forced to abandon Jonesy to the Alien, but, while the Xenomorph was notably distracted by the cat, it did not attack it. Jonesy was later recovered and put in hypersleep aboard the Narcissus after escaping with Ripley.
