Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1968-08-09

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	Three at Once	Woman 1	35
2	1988	A Matter of Choice	Woman	0
3	1992	The Turning	April Cavanaugh	30
4	1998	Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten	Dana Scully / Self	0
5	1998	Inside The X-Files	Self	68
6	1998	The Mighty	Loretta Lee	72
7	1998	The X-Files	Agent Dana Scully	69
8	1998	Chicago Cab	Southside Girl	55
9	1998	Playing by Heart	Meredith	66
10	2000	The House of Mirth	Lily Bart	62
11	2002	Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening	Self - Performer	0
12	2005	The Mighty Celt	Kate	63
13	2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson	62
14	2006	The Last King of Scotland	Sarah Merrit	74
15	2007	Straightheads	Alice	52
16	2007	Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind	Queen Vorkana (voice)	50
17	2008	The X Files: I Want to Believe	Dana Scully	58
18	2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Eleanor Johnson	60
19	2009	Boogie Woogie	Jean Maclestone	50
20	2010	No Pressure	Self	70
21	2011	Johnny English Reborn	Pamela	62
22	2012	Shadow Dancer	Kate Fletcher	59
23	2012	Sister	Kristin Jansen	67
24	2012	FOX 25th Anniversary Special	Self	73
25	2012	Room on the Broom	Witch (voice)	65
26	2013	I'll Follow You Down	Marika Whyte	60
27	2013	Mr. Morgan's Last Love	Karen Morgan	66
28	2014	National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	77
29	2014	The Departure	Blanche DuBois	84
30	2014	Robot Overlords	Kate	48
31	2015	The Widowmaker	Narrator	68
32	2015	Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon	Self	100
33	2016	Sold	Sophia	64
34	2017	Woolf Works	Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)	20
35	2017	Viceroy's House	Edwina Mountbatten	66
36	2017	Heroes Manufactured	Self (archive footage)	100
37	2017	The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism	Narrator	85
38	2017	Crooked House	Magda Leonides	64
39	2018	The Spy Who Dumped Me	Wendy	64
40	2018	UFO	Dr. Hendricks	69
41	2019	National Theatre Live: All About Eve	Margo Channing	85
42	2019	This Changes Everything	Self	62
43	2020	The Sunlit Night	Olyana	55
44	2021	Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day	Self	80
45	2021	Robin Robin	Cat (voice)	70
46	2022	The Pale Blue Eye	Julia Marquis	68
47	2023	White Bird	Vivienne Beaumier	79
48	2024	Scoop	Emily Maitlis	63
49	2024	Woolf Works		0
50	2025	The Salt Path	Raynor Winn	64
51	2025	TRON: Ares		0
52		Animals		0
53		Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
4	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee/Presenter	72
5	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member	72
6	1988	This Morning	Self	52
7	1989	The Simpsons	Dana Scully (voice)	80
8	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self - Guest	54
9	1992	Eek! The Cat	Dana Scully (voice)	68
10	1993	Class of '96	Rachel	50
11	1993	The X-Files	Dana Scully	84
12	1993	Frasier	Jenny (voice)	77
13	1994	ReBoot	Data Nully (voice)	73
14	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest	35
15	1996	Future Fantastic	Self - Host	0
16	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
17	1998	The Magic Hour	Self	50
18	1999	Harsh Realm	Video Narrator (uncredited)	64
19	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
20	2002	V Graham Norton	Self	50
21	2002	American Idol	Self	51
22	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
23	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self - Guest	55
24	2003	Celebrities Uncensored	Self	40
25	2004	Parkinson	Self - Guest	0
26	2005	Bleak House	Lady Dedlock	82
27	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
28	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
29	2010	Any Human Heart	Duchess Of Windsor	60
30	2011	The Crimson Petal and the White	Mrs. Castaway	72
31	2011	Moby Dick	Elizabeth	57
32	2011	Great Expectations	Miss Havisham	72
33	2013	Hannibal	Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier	82
34	2013	The Fall	Stella Gibson	77
35	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
36	2014	Crisis	Meg Fitch	64
37	2014	Ronja the Robber's Daughter	Narrator	66
38	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
39	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
40	2016	War and Peace	Anna Pavlovna Scherer	76
41	2016	The Crown	Margaret Thatcher	82
42	2017	American Gods	Media	71
43	2017	American Gods	Goddess Media	71
44	2022	The First Lady	Eleanor Roosevelt	64
45		The Abandons	Constance Van Ness	0
46	2019	Sex Education	Jean Milburn	82
47	2020	The Savoy	Self	79
48		Trespasses	Gina	0

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