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Gillian Anderson

Actor, Director, Writer, ProducerBorn August 9, 1968 (56 years)
Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE 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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Shadow Dancer
  • I'll Follow You Down
  • ReBoot
  • The Crimson Petal and The White
  • The Sunlit Night
  • Chicago Cab
  • Sold

Known For

  • The X-Files
  • Sex Education
  • The Fall
  • Johnny English Reborn
  • The X Files
  • The Last King of Scotland
  • Hannibal
  • The X Files: I Want to Believe
  • Playing by Heart
  • Scoop
  • The Crown
  • UFO
  • How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
  • I'll Follow You Down
  • The House of Mirth
  • Closure
  • War & Peace (2016)
  • Room on the Broom
  • Bleak House (2005)
  • Last Love
  • Shadow Dancer
  • Viceroy's House
  • Boogie Woogie

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    Tron: Ares · 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
    2019
    Sex Education (TV Series) · as Jean Milburn
    2018
    UFO · as Dr. Hendricks
    2018
    2017
    Crooked House · as Magda Leonides
    2017
    2017
    Viceroy's House · as Edwina Mountbatten
    2017
    American Gods (TV Series) · as Goddess 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
    2014
    Crisis (TV Series) · as Meg Fitch
    2014
    Sold · as Sophia
    2013
    Last Love · as Karen Morgan
    2013
    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
    2011
    From Up on Poppy Hill · as Miki Hokuto
    2011
    Moby Dick (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
    2008
    2008
    2007
    2007
    Closure · as Alice
    2006
    The Last King of Scotland · as Sarah Merrit
    2005
    Bleak House (2005) (TV Series) · as Lady Dedlock
    2005
    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
    1997
    Chicago Cab · as Southside Girl
    1995
    1994
    ReBoot (TV Series) · as Data Nully (voice)
    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)

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