Gillian Anderson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1968-08-09
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gillian Anderson
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillian Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
The Last King of Scotland
Jan 12, 2006
Playing by Heart
Dec 30, 1998
The X-Files
Jun 19, 1998
The Mighty Celt
Feb 11, 2005
Scoop
Mar 27, 2024
The Turning
Jan 01, 1992
A Cock and Bull Story
Jul 17, 2005
The X Files: I Want to Believe
Jul 24, 2008
The House of Mirth
Sep 23, 2000
The Mighty
Jun 01, 1998
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Oct 02, 2008
Straightheads
Apr 27, 2007
The Pale Blue Eye
Dec 22, 2022
Boogie Woogie
Jun 26, 2009
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
Apr 22, 2012
The Salt Path
May 01, 2025
Shadow Dancer
Feb 12, 2012
Johnny English Reborn
Sep 15, 2011
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Jan 01, 2002
Sister
Apr 04, 2012
Heroes Manufactured
Mar 10, 2017
Room on the Broom
Dec 25, 2012
Chicago Cab
Sep 18, 1998
White Bird
Oct 25, 2023
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Aug 22, 2013
Robot Overlords
Oct 18, 2014
Sold
Apr 01, 2016
I'll Follow You Down
Jul 28, 2013
Three at Once
Jan 01, 1986
A Matter of Choice
Jan 01, 1988
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Sep 16, 2014
No Pressure
Sep 01, 2010
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
Feb 01, 1998
The Departure
Oct 02, 2014
TRON: Ares
Oct 08, 2025
The Widowmaker
Feb 27, 2015
Inside The X-Files
Feb 01, 1998
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Dec 08, 2015
Woolf Works
Jun 25, 2024
Crooked House
Sep 06, 2017
UFO
Sep 04, 2018
Viceroy's House
Mar 03, 2017
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Dec 25, 2007
Woolf Works
Feb 08, 2017
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Mar 26, 2017
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Aug 02, 2018
This Changes Everything
Jun 28, 2019
The Sunlit Night
Jun 06, 2020
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Mar 11, 2019
Robin Robin
Oct 09, 2021
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Mar 08, 2021
Animals
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
ReBoot
Sep 10, 1994
Harsh Realm
Oct 08, 1999
Bleak House
Oct 27, 2005
Richard & Judy
Nov 26, 2001
American Idol
Jun 11, 2002
The X-Files
Sep 10, 1993
The Crown
Nov 04, 2016
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Future Fantastic
Jun 21, 1996
Celebrities Uncensored
Jun 04, 2003
Class of '96
Jan 19, 1993
The First Lady
Apr 17, 2022
V Graham Norton
May 06, 2002
Great Expectations
Dec 27, 2011
The Fall
May 12, 2013
Any Human Heart
Nov 21, 2010
Moby Dick
May 08, 2011
The Crimson Petal and the White
Apr 06, 2011
Hannibal
Apr 04, 2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Crisis
Mar 16, 2014
War and Peace
Jan 03, 2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
The Abandons
Ronja the Robber's Daughter
Oct 11, 2014
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Frasier
Sep 16, 1993
Eek! The Cat
Sep 11, 1992
The Savoy
Sep 30, 2020
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Sex Education
Jan 11, 2019
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Jun 10, 1996
Parkinson
Sep 04, 2004
American Gods
Apr 30, 2017
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Magic Hour
Jun 08, 1998
Trespasses
American Gods
Apr 30, 2017
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Parkinson
Jan 09, 1998
Top Gear
Oct 20, 2002
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
This Morning
Oct 03, 1988
