Gillian Anderson
Actor
Born August 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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-Files films 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).
Filmography
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Billy Presley
Animals
The Julia Set
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
Narrator
The Salt Path Scandal
Self (archive footage)
The Abandons
Constance Van Ness
Trespasses
Gina
TRON: Ares
Elisabeth Dillinger
The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
Woolf Works
Scoop
Emily Maitlis
White Bird
Vivienne Beaumier
The Pale Blue Eye
Julia Marquis
The First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robin Robin
Cat (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Self
The Savoy
Self
The Sunlit Night
Olyana
This Changes Everything
Self
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Margo Channing
Sex Education
Jean Milburn
UFO
Dr. Hendricks
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Wendy
Crooked House
Magda Leonides
American Gods
Media
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Narrator
Heroes Manufactured
Self (archive footage)
Viceroy's House
Edwina Mountbatten
Woolf Works
Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
The Crown
Margaret Thatcher
Sold
Sophia
War and Peace
Anna Pavlovna Scherer
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
The Widowmaker
Narrator
Robot Overlords
Kate
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
Narrator
The Departure
Blanche DuBois
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois
Crisis
Meg Fitch
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Karen Morgan
I'll Follow You Down
Marika Whyte
The Fall
Stella Gibson
Hannibal
Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
Room on the Broom
Witch (voice)
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
Self
Sister
Kristin Jansen
Shadow Dancer
Kate Fletcher
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
Johnny English Reborn
Pamela
Moby Dick
Elizabeth
The Crimson Petal and the White
Mrs. Castaway
Any Human Heart
Duchess Of Windsor
No Pressure
Self
Boogie Woogie
Jean Maclestone
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Eleanor Johnson
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Dana Scully
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Queen Vorkana (voice)
Straightheads
Alice
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Last King of Scotland
Sarah Merrit
Bleak House
Lady Dedlock
A Cock and Bull Story
Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
The Mighty Celt
Kate
Parkinson
Self - Guest
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Top Gear
Self
American Idol
Self
V Graham Norton
Self
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Self - Performer
Richard & Judy
Self
The House of Mirth
Lily Bart
Harsh Realm
Video Narrator (uncredited)
Playing by Heart
Meredith
Chicago Cab
Southside Girl
The X-Files
Agent Dana Scully
The Magic Hour
Self
The Mighty
Loretta Lee
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
Dana Scully / Self
Inside The X-Files
Self
Parkinson
Self
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
Self
Future Fantastic
Self - Host
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
More Secrets of the X-Files
Self
Secrets of the X-Files
Self
ReBoot
Data Nully (voice)
Frasier
Jenny (voice)
The X-Files
Dana Scully
Class of '96
Rachel
Eek! The Cat
Dana Scully (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
The Turning
April Cavanaugh
The Simpsons
Dana Scully (voice)
This Morning
Self - Guest
A Matter of Choice
Woman
Three at Once
Woman 1
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter