Editing Alien 3 (section)

==Cast==
[[File:Sigourney Weaver 1989 Academy Awards (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Sigourney Weaver]] reprised her role as [[Ellen Ripley]]]]
{{see also|List of Alien (franchise) characters}}
* [[Sigourney Weaver]] as [[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&nbsp;million, plus co-producing credit. She also requested for the action not to rely on guns.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[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.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[Charles Dance]] as Jonathan Clemens, a former inmate who now serves as the facility's doctor.<ref name="AFI film-59175" /> 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]], hoping to reunite him with ''[[Withnail and I]]'' co-stars Ralph Brown and Paul McGann.<ref name="wreckage" />
* [[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.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[Ralph Brown]] as Francis Aaron, the assistant of Superintendent Andrews. The prisoners refer to him by the nickname "85", after his [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]] 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.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[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.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[Danny Webb (actor)|Danny Webb]] 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).<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[Lance Henriksen]] as the voice of the damaged [[Bishop (Aliens)|Bishop]] android, as well as a character credited as Bishop II. He appears in the film's final scenes, claiming to be the human designer of the Bishop android, and wants the Alien Queen that was growing inside Ripley for use in Weyland-Yutani's bioweapons division.<ref name="AFI film-59175" /> The character is named as "Michael Bishop Weyland" in certain tie-in materials.<ref name="Bishop2">{{Cite web |last=Dillon |first=Bryant |date=April 26, 2018 |title=#AlienDay 2018: 'Alien 3' - Who is Bishop II? |url= https://fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/editorials/item/8779-alienday-2018-alien-3-who-is-bishop-ii |access-date=January 16, 2023 |website=Fanbase Press}}</ref><ref name="Weyland-Yutani_Report">{{Cite book |last=Perry |first=S. D. |url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949024244 |title=Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report |date=2016 |isbn=978-1-60887-866-6 |publisher=Insight Editions |location=San Rafael, California |oclc=949024244}}</ref>
* [[Tom Woodruff Jr.]] as the Alien known as [[Alien (creature in Alien franchise)#"Dragon"|"Dragon"]].<ref name="A3DVD">Alien<sup>3</sup> audio commentary, Alien Quadrilogy boxset</ref> 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]] supervisor, Woodruff decided to take the role of the creature after his company, Amalgamated Dynamics, was hired by Fox.<ref name="fright">{{cite web |date=December 2007 |title=Tom Woodruff, Jr. interview |url= http://www.iconsoffright.com/IV_Woodruff.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081203172807/http://www.iconsoffright.com/IV_Woodruff.htm |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |access-date=January 16, 2023 |website=Icons of Fright}}</ref> 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."<ref name="shock">{{cite web |url= http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=5626 |title=Interview: Amalgamated Dynamics' Tom Woodruff, Jr. |work=Shock Till You Drop |date=April 14, 2008 |access-date=October 12, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080920133402/http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=5626 |archive-date=September 20, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Pete Postlethwaite]] as David Postlethwaite, an inmate smarter than most who is killed by the Alien in the bait-and-chase sequence.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[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.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* [[Peter Guinness (actor)|Peter Guinness]] 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.<ref name="AFI film-59175" />
* Danielle Edmond as Rebecca "Newt" Jordan,<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bcd25e9f2 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230129194846/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bcd25e9f2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2023 |title=Danielle Edmond BFI |work=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=January 29, 2023}}</ref> the child Ripley forms a maternal bond with in the previous film who briefly returns as a corpse being autopsied. [[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.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://screenrant.com/alien-3-movie-newt-autopsy-uncut-horrific-scene/ |title=Alien 3 Originally Had A Newt Scene That Went Way Too Far |first=Padraig |last=Cotter |work=[[Screen Rant]] |date=November 6, 2022 |accessdate=May 22, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221118074908/https://screenrant.com/alien-3-movie-newt-autopsy-uncut-horrific-scene/ |archive-date=November 18, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Fairbank]] as Thomas Murphy.<ref name="BFI Alien3">[https://web.archive.org/web/20170531035432/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a6efb05 ''Alien 3''] at the [[British Film Institute]]{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}</ref>
* [[Phil Davis (actor)|Phil Davis]] as Kevin Dodd.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* [[Vincenzo Nicoli]] as Alan Jude.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* [[Leon Herbert]] as Edward Boggs.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* [[Niall Buggy]] as Eric Buggy.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* Hi Ching as Company Man.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* Carl Chase as Frank Ellis.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* [[Clive Mantle]] as Clive William.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* [[DeObia Oparei]] as Arthur Walkingstick.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />
* Paul Brennen as Yoshi Troy.<ref name="BFI Alien3" />

An archive picture of [[Michael Biehn]] as [[Dwayne Hicks|Corporal Dwayne Hicks]] appears.<ref name="RemarEmpire">{{cite web |url= https://empireonline.com/features/aliens-colonial-marines-profiles/2.asp |title=''Aliens'': The Colonial Marines |website=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] |access-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120312075023/https://www.empireonline.com/features/aliens-colonial-marines-profiles/2.asp |archive-date=March 12, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="THRBiehn">{{cite web |last=Couch |first=Aaron |title="Everything Had To Go Right": What Happened to 'Terminator' Star Michael Biehn |url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/terminator-what-happened-star-michael-biehn-1228634 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=August 2, 2019 |access-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200819182539/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/terminator-what-happened-star-michael-biehn-1228634 |archive-date=August 19, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>