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Gillian Anderson
Actor, Director, Writer, ProducerBorn August 9, 1968 (57 years)
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.
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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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| 2025 | The Abandons (TV Series) · as Constance Van Ness |
| 2025 | Trespasses (TV Series) · as Gina |
| 2025 | Tron: Ares · as Elisabeth Dillinger |
| 2025 | Tron: Ares - A Special Look · as Elisabeth Dillinger |
| 2024 | The Salt Path · as Raynor Winn |
| 2024 | Scoop · as Emily Maitlis |
| 2023 | White Bird · as Vivienne Beaumier |
| 2022 | The Pale Blue Eye · as Julia Marquis |
| 2022 | The First Lady (2022) (TV Series) · as Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2021 | Robin Robin · as Cat (voice) |
| 2020 | The Great (TV Series) · as Joanna |
| 2019 | All About Eve · as Margo Channing |
| 2019 | The Sunlit Night · as Olyana |
| 2019 | Sex Education (TV Series) · as Jean Milburn |
| 2018 | UFO · as Dr. Hendricks |
| 2018 | The Spy Who Dumped Me · as Wendy |
| 2017 | Crooked House · as Magda Leonides |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Viceroy's House · as Edwina Mountbatten |
| 2017 | American Gods (TV Series) · as Media |
| 2016 | The Crown (TV Series) · as Margaret Thatcher |
| 2016 | War & Peace (2016) (TV Series) · as Anna Pavlovna Scherer |
| 2015 | The Widowmaker · as Narrator |
| 2014 | Robot Overlords · as Kate |
| 2014 | Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire · as Blanche Dubois |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Crisis (TV Series) · as Meg Fitch |
| 2013 | Last Love · as Karen Morgan |
| 2013 | I'll Follow You Down · as Marika Whyte |
| 2013 | The Fall (TV Series) · as Stella Gibson |
| 2013 | Hannibal (TV Series) · as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier |
| 2012 | Room on the Broom · as Witch (voice) |
| 2012 | Shadow Dancer · as Kate Fletcher |
| 2012 | Sister · as Kristin Jansen |
| 2011 | Great Expectations (TV Series) · as Miss Havisham |
| 2011 | America in Primetime (TV Series) · as Dana Scully, The X-Files |
| 2011 | Johnny English Reborn · as Pamela |
| 2011 | From Up on Poppy Hill · as Miki Hokuto |
| 2011 | Moby Dick (2011) (TV Series) · as Elizabeth |
| 2011 | The Crimson Petal and The White (TV Series) · as Mrs. Castaway |
| 2010 | Any Human Heart (TV Series) · as Duchess Of Windsor |
| 2009 | Boogie Woogie · as Jean Maclestone |
| 2008 | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People · as Eleanor Johnson |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | The X Files: I Want to Believe · as Dana Scully |
| 2007 | Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind · as Queen Vorkana (voice) |
| 2007 | Closure · as Alice |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland · as Sarah Merrit |
| 2005 | Bleak House (2005) (TV Series) · as Lady Dedlock |
| 2005 | San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero · as Widow Wadman |
| 2005 | The Mighty Celt · as Kate |
| 2005 | Tristram Shandy · as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson |
| 2005 | Robot Chicken (TV Series) · as Baroness |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth · as Lily Bart |
| 1999 | Harsh Realm (TV Series) · as Video Narrator (uncredited) |
| 1998 | Playing by Heart · as Meredith |
| 1998 | The Mighty · as Loretta Lee |
| 1998 | The X Files · as Agent Dana Scully |
| 1997 | Chicago Cab · as Southside Girl |
| 1994 | |
| 1993 | Frasier (TV Series) · as Jenny (voice) |
| 1993 | The X-Files (TV Series) · as Dana Scully |
| 1993 | Class of '96 (TV Series) · as Rachel |
| 1992 | Eek! the Cat (TV Series) · as Dana Scully (voice) |
| 1992 | The Turning · as April Cavanaugh |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Dana Scully (voice) |
| 2025 | The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2024 | 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2024 | 81st Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Audience |
| 2021 | The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2021 | The 26th Annual Critics' Choice Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2021 | 2021 Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2020 | The Savoy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | The Drew Barrymore Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2020 | 2020 EE BAFTA Film Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2020 | 2020 Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Audience Member |
| 2019 | Untouchable · as Self |
| 2018 | This Changes Everything · as Self |
| 2017 | The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2017 · as Self - Audience Member |
| 2017 | Behind the Scenes of 'Viceroy's House' · as Self - Actress |
| 2016 | Heroes Manufactured · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Season X · as Self |
| 2015 | The X-Files: Re-Opened · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Variety: Actors on Actors (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Good Morning Britain (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | 2014 EE British Academy Film Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2012 | Larry King Now (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2012 | FOX 25th Anniversary Special · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | 55th BFI London Film Festival · as Self |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | The Talk (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | Daybreak (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | Nieuwsuur (TV Series) · as Self - Actrice |
| 2010 | No Pressure · as Self |
| 2009 | Talk Stoop (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | The Project (2009) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Alan Carr: Chatty Man (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2007 | Concert for Diana · as Self - Presenter |
| 2007 | Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton · as Self |
| 2007 | The Best of Masterpiece Theatre · as Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2007 | The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2006 | The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2005 | 3rd Irish Film and Television Awards · as Self |
| 2004 | The X Files: The Making of 'The Truth' · as Self |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | Celebrities Uncensored (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2002 | Top Gear (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Storyline Online (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | American Idol (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | V Graham Norton (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | The 2002 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2002 | Last Call with Carson Daly (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2002 | Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening · as Self - Performer |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Lorraine (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2001 | 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2001 | The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 · as Self - Presenter |
| 2000 | BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | The Martin Short Show (1999) (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1999 | The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1999 | 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1999 | The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1999 | The Cigarette Smoking Man Revealed · as Self |
| 1998 | Hollywood Squares (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist |
| 1998 | The X-Files Movie Special · as Self |
| 1998 | The Magic Hour (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1998 | Inside the X Files · as Self |
| 1998 | The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee & Presenter |
| 1998 | The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee & Presenter |
| 1997 | The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Presenter & Winner |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1997 | 1997 MTV Movie Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1997 | 3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1997 | 54th Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | Future Fantastic (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | Secrets of the X Files, Part 2 · as Self |
| 1996 | 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1995 | The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1995 | Secrets of the X Files, Part 1 · as Self |
| 1995 | The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1994 | Extra (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | The Jon Stewart Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1993 | GMTV (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1991 | Maury (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1988 | This Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | Nightline (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1971 | Film (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1971 | Parkinson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1971 | Masterpiece (2017) (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |
| 1993 | The X-Files (TV Series) |
| 1993 | The X-Files (TV Series) |
| 2025 | Trespasses (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The Fall (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |