Weaver's Ripley tops sci-fi poll

Sigourney Weaver's Alien heroine, Ripley, has beaten off Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck to top a new sci-fi film poll

Weaver's Ellen Ripley came out on top of the Sci-Fi Woman Of All Time list collated by website Totalscifionline.com.

Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy came in second and Katee Sackhoff's sexy Starbuck took the bronze medal.

Also making the top five are Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully (The X-Files) and Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor (Terminator).

Rounding out the top 10 is: Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher, Star Wars trilogy), Rose Tyler (Billie Piper, Doctor Who), Sam Carter (Amanda Tapping, Stargate SG-1), Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek) and Leeloo (Milla Jovovich, The Fifth Element).

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