Gillian Anderson
Acting
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.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
as Dana Scully
Age 39 (now 57)
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
as Self
Age 52 (now 57)
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Margo Channing
Age 50 (now 57)
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
as Narrator
Age 48 (now 57)
Woolf Works
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
Age 48 (now 57)
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
as Self
Age 47 (now 57)
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
as Blanche DuBois
Age 46 (now 57)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Eleanor Johnson
Age 40 (now 57) The X-Files: I Want to Believe
as Dana Scully
Age 39 (now 57)
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
Age 39 (now 57)
A Cock and Bull Story
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
Age 36 (now 57)
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
as Self - Performer
Age 33 (now 57)
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
as Dana Scully / Self
Age 29 (now 57)
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
as Self
Age 29 (now 57)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Age 47 (now 57)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Age 46 (now 57)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 46 (now 57)
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
as Narrator
Age 46 (now 57)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Age 45 (now 57)
The Crimson Petal and the White
as Mrs. Castaway
Age 42 (now 57)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Age 40 (now 57)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
Age 23 (now 57)
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Also Known As
Gillian Leigh Anderson
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