Gillian Anderson
Acting
Biography
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-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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillian Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 9, 1968
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Constance Van Ness
as Elisabeth Dillinger
as Raynor Winn
as Emily Maitlis
as Vivienne Beaumier
as Julia Marquis
as Eleanor Roosevelt
as Cat (voice)
as Self
as Olyana
as Self
as Margo Channing
as Jean Milburn
as Dr. Hendricks
as Wendy
as Magda Leonides
as Media
as Goddess Media
as Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Edwina Mountbatten
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
as Margaret Thatcher
as Sophia
as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
as Narrator
as Kate
as Narrator
as Blanche DuBois
as Blanche DuBois
as Meg Fitch
as Self
as Karen Morgan
as Marika Whyte
as Stella Gibson
as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
as Witch (voice)
as Self
as Kristin Jansen
as Kate Fletcher
as Miss Havisham
as Pamela
as Elizabeth
as Mrs. Castaway
as Duchess Of Windsor
as Self
as Jean Maclestone
as Self - Guest
as Eleanor Johnson
as Dana Scully
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
as Alice
as Self
as Sarah Merrit
as Lady Dedlock
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
as Kate
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Performer
as Self
as Lily Bart
as Video Narrator (uncredited)
as Meredith
as Southside Girl
as Agent Dana Scully
as Self
as Loretta Lee
as Self
as Dana Scully / Self
as Self
as Self - Host
as Self - Guest
as Data Nully (voice)
as Jenny (voice)
as Dana Scully
as Rachel
as Dana Scully (voice)
as Self - Guest
as April Cavanaugh
as Dana Scully (voice)
as Self
as Woman
as Woman 1
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
as Self - Audience Member
as Gina