Gillian Anderson
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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.
Known for
Credits
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
as Billy
TRON: Ares (2025)
as Elisabeth Dillinger
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
as Pamela
The X-Files (1998)
as Dana Scully
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
as Wendy
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
as Dana Scully
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
as Julia Marquis
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
as Sarah Merrit
White Bird (2023)
as Vivienne Beaumier
Crooked House (2017)
as Magda Leonides
Scoop (2024)
as Emily Maitlis
Robot Overlords (2015)
as Kate
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
as Eleanor Johnson
The Salt Path (2025)
as Raynor Winn
Shadow Dancer (2012)
as Kate Fletcher
Playing by Heart (1998)
as Meredith
Room on the Broom (2012)
as Witch (voice)
This Changes Everything (2019)
as Self
Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
as Karen Morgan
The Mighty (1998)
as Loretta Lee
The House of Mirth (2000)
as Lily Bart
I'll Follow You Down (2013)
as Marika Whyte
Straightheads (2007)
as Alice
Boogie Woogie (2010)
as Jean Maclestone
UFO (2018)
as Dr. Hendricks
Robin Robin (2021)
as Cat (voice)
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
Viceroy's House (2017)
as Edwina Mountbatten
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
as Blanche DuBois
Animals (2026)
Actor
No Pressure (2010)
as Self
The Sunlit Night (2020)
as Olyana
Sister (2012)
as Kristin Jansen
Inside The X-Files (1998)
as Self
Chicago Cab (1998)
as Southside Girl
National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)
as Margo Channing
Heroes Manufactured (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
FOX 25th Anniversary Special (2012)
as Self
The Widowmaker (2015)
as Narrator
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon (2015)
as Self
The Mighty Celt (2005)
as Kate
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future' (1998)
as Self
The Turning (1992)
as April Cavanaugh
The Turning Door (—)
as (voice)
The Julia Set (2026)
Actor
The Salt Path Scandal (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Secrets of the X-Files (1995)
as Self
Sold (2016)
as Sophia
Woolf Works (2017)
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (2007)
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
More Secrets of the X-Files (1996)
as Self
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism (2017)
as Narrator
The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn (2026)
as Dana Scully
Tron: Ares - A Special Look (2025)
as Elisabeth Dillinger
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day (2021)
as Self
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening (2002)
as Self - Performer
Three at Once (1986)
as Woman 1
Woolf Works (2024)
Actor
The Departure (2014)
as Blanche DuBois
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten (1998)
as Dana Scully / Self
Why Planes Go Down (1996)
as Narrator
A Matter of Choice (1988)
as Woman
Spies Above (1996)
as narrator
Hannibal: Mizumono (2014)
as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier