Gillian Anderson
Age: N/A | From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Aliases: Gillian Leigh Anderson , Джілліан Андерсон , Τζίλιαν Άντερσον , 질리언 앤더슨 , ジリアン・アンダーソン , 吉蓮·安德森 , جیلیان اندرسون
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Homepage: http://www.gilliananderson.ws
Movie Involvements: 37
TV Involvements: 22
Most Famous Work
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillian Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
The X-Files
(1993) Dana Scully
American Idol
(2002) Self
The Crown
(2016) Margaret Thatcher
American Gods
(2017) Media
Hannibal
(2013) Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
Eek! The Cat
(1992) Dana Scully (voice)
The X Files: I Want to Believe
(2008) Dana Scully
The Fall
(2013) Stella GibsonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | |
| Raynor Winn | ||
| 2024 | N/A | |
| Emily Maitlis | ||
| 2023 | Vivienne Beaumier | |
| 2022 | Julia Marquis | |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
| 2021 | Cat (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Olyana | ||
| 2019 | Self | |
| Margo Channing | ||
| Jean Milburn | ||
| 2018 | Dr. Hendricks | |
| Wendy | ||
| 2017 | Magda Leonides | |
| Media | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Edwina Mountbatten | ||
| Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice) | ||
| 2016 | Margaret Thatcher | |
| Sophia | ||
| Anna Pavlovna Scherer | ||
| 2015 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2014 | Kate | |
| Narrator | ||
| Blanche DuBois | ||
| Blanche DuBois | ||
| Meg Fitch | ||
| Self | ||
| 2013 | Karen Morgan | |
| Marika Whyte | ||
| Stella Gibson | ||
| Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier | ||
| 2012 | Witch (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Kristin Jansen | ||
| Kate Fletcher | ||
| 2011 | Miss Havisham | |
| Pamela Thornton ("Pegasus") | ||
| Elizabeth | ||
| Mrs. Castaway | ||
| 2010 | Duchess Of Windsor | |
| Herself | ||
| 2009 | Self - Guest | |
| Jean Maclestone | ||
| 2008 | Eleanor Johnson | |
| Dana Scully | ||
| 2007 | Queen Vorkana (voice) | |
| Alice | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Sarah Merrit | |
| 2005 | Lady Dedlock | |
| Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson | ||
| Kate | ||
| 2004 | N/A | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Performer | ||
| 2001 | Self | |
| 2000 | Lily Bart | |
| 1999 | N/A | |
| 1998 | Meredith | |
| Southside Girl | ||
| Agent Dana Scully | ||
| Self | ||
| Loretta Lee | ||
| Herself | ||
| Dana Scully / Self | ||
| 1996 | Host | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1994 | N/A | |
| 1993 | Jenny (voice) | |
| Dana Scully | ||
| Rachel | ||
| 1992 | Dana Scully (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| April Cavanaugh | ||
| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1988 | Woman | |
| 1986 | Woman 1 | |
| 1944 | Self - Winner | |
| Constance Van Ness | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Director | |
| 1993 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |