Gillian Anderson

Known for ActingBorn 1968-08-09 (age 58)Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and activist. She is best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the sci-fi series The X-Files (1993–2002; 2016–2018), Lily Bart in the drama film The House of Mirth (2000), DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama series The Fall (2013–2016), Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023), and Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of the Netflix drama series The Crown (2020). She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Born in Chicago, Anderson was raised first in London and then in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She later started her career onstage in New York City before achieving international recognition for her work on The X-Files. Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Shadow Dancer (2012), and Viceroy's House (2017), as well as the X-Files films Fight the Future (1998) and I Want to Believe (2008). Her television credits include Lady Dedlock in Bleak House (2005), Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart (2010), Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2011), Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier on Hannibal (2013–2015), Media in the first season of American Gods (2017), and Eleanor Roosevelt on The First Lady (2022). Anderson has also received awards and acclaim for her stage work, which includes Absent Friends (1991), for which she won a Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer; A Doll's House (2009), for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress; Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014 and 2016), for which she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and received a second Laurence Olivier Award nomination; and All About Eve (2019), for which she received a third Laurence Olivier Award nomination. Anderson has supported numerous charities and humanitarian organizations, being an honorary spokesperson for the Neurofibromatosis Network and a co-founder of South African Youth Education for Sustainability (SAYes). She has lived in London since 2002 and was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2016 for her services to drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillian Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

Secrets of the X-Files

Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day

A Matter of Choice

National Theatre Live: All About Eve

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism

Hannibal

Sex Education

The Crown

The X-Files

The Savoy

Bleak House

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

The Departure

White Bird

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

The Simpsons

The Fall

War and Peace

Frasier

Top Gear

The Last King of Scotland

Future Fantastic

Great Expectations

ReBoot

The Graham Norton Show

American Gods

Robin Robin

The Mighty

The Crimson Petal and the White

No Pressure

UFO

Parkinson

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

The Pale Blue Eye

Inside The X-Files

The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'

The Magic Hour

The Salt Path

The Widowmaker

The X-Files

Heroes Manufactured

Viceroy's House

Sister

Room on the Broom

Eek! The Cat

TRON: Ares

Trespasses