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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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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 | 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 | 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 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 | National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire · as Blanche Dubois |
| 2014 | Crisis (TV Series) · as Meg Fitch |
| 2014 | |
| 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 (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 | Princess Mononoke · as Moro |
| 1997 | Chicago Cab · as Southside Girl |
| 1995 | Secrets of the X Files, Part 1 · as Dana Scully |
| 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) |