Gillian Anderson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-08-09 (57 years old)

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 the...

Acting

2006

1998

Playing by Heart

as Meredith

1998

The X-Files

as Agent Dana Scully

2005

2024

Scoop

as Emily Maitlis

1992

The Turning

as April Cavanaugh

2005

A Cock and Bull Story

as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson

2000

The House of Mirth

as Lily Bart

1998

The Mighty

as Loretta Lee

2007

2022

The Pale Blue Eye

as Julia Marquis

2009

Boogie Woogie

as Jean Maclestone

2025

The Salt Path

as Raynor Winn

2012

Shadow Dancer

as Kate Fletcher

2012

Sister

as Kristin Jansen

2017

Heroes Manufactured

as Self (archive footage)

2012

Room on the Broom

as Witch (voice)

1998

Chicago Cab

as Southside Girl

2023

White Bird

as Vivienne Beaumier

2013

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

as Karen Morgan

2014

2016

Sold

as Sophia

2013

I'll Follow You Down

as Marika Whyte

1986

Three at Once

as Woman 1

1988

2010

2014

The Departure

as Blanche DuBois

2015

The Widowmaker

as Narrator

2017

Crooked House

as Magda Leonides

2018

UFO

as Dr. Hendricks

2017

Viceroy's House

as Edwina Mountbatten

2017

Woolf Works

as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)

2020

2021

Robin Robin

as Cat (voice)

Production

2014

The Departure

as Director

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