Gillian Anderson

Birthday: 1968-08-09
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender: Female
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Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE (/ˈdʒɪliən/ JIL-ee-ən; 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-Filesfilms 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.

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Credits

Year Title Character
The Inspiration of Alfie Swincross Alison Appleby
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2025-10-08 TRON: Ares
2024-09-05 The Salt Path Raynor Winn
2024-06-25 Woolf Works
2024-03-27 Scoop Emily Maitlis
2023-10-25 White Bird Vivienne Beaumier
2022-12-22 The Pale Blue Eye Julia Marquis
2021-10-09 Robin Robin Cat (voice)
2020-06-06 The Sunlit Night Olyana
2019-03-11 National Theatre Live: All About Eve Margo Channing
2018-09-04 UFO Dr. Hendricks
2018-08-02 The Spy Who Dumped Me Wendy
2017-09-06 Crooked House Magda Leonides
2017-03-03 Viceroy's House Edwina Mountbatten
2017-02-08 Woolf Works Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
2016-04-01 Sold Sophia
2014-10-18 Robot Overlords Kate
2014-10-02 The Departure Blanche DuBois
2014-09-16 National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois
2013-08-22 Mr. Morgan's Last Love Karen Morgan
2013-07-28 I'll Follow You Down Marika Whyte
2012-12-25 Room on the Broom Witch (voice)
2012-04-04 Sister Kristin Jansen
2012-02-12 Shadow Dancer Kate Fletcher
2011-09-15 Johnny English Reborn Pamela Thornton ("Pegasus")
2009-06-26 Boogie Woogie Jean Maclestone
2008-10-02 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Eleanor Johnson
2008-07-24 The X Files: I Want to Believe Dana Scully
2007-12-25 Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind Queen Vorkana (voice)
2007-04-27 Straightheads Alice
2006-01-12 The Last King of Scotland Sarah Merrit
2005-07-17 A Cock and Bull Story Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
2005-02-11 The Mighty Celt Kate
2000-09-23 The House of Mirth Lily Bart
1998-12-30 Playing by Heart Meredith
1998-09-18 Chicago Cab Southside Girl
1998-06-19 The X-Files Agent Dana Scully
1998-06-01 The Mighty Loretta Lee
1992-01-01 The Turning April Cavanaugh
1988-01-01 A Matter of Choice Woman
1986-01-01 Three at Once Woman 1