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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 9, 1968
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Gillian Leigh Anderson
- Джілліан Андерсон
- Τζίλιαν Άντερσον
- 질리언 앤더슨
- ジリアン・アンダーソン
- 吉蓮·安德森
- جیلیان اندرسون
Gillian Anderson
6.3 Popularity
Biography
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-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
5.6
Constance Van Ness
The Abandons
2025
8.3
Gina
Trespasses
2025
6.6
Elisabeth Dillinger
TRON: Ares
2025
6.7
Raynor Winn
The Salt Path
2025
0.0
Woolf Works
2024
6.3
Emily Maitlis
Scoop
2024
7.8
Vivienne Beaumier
White Bird
2023
6.8
Julia Marquis
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
5.8
Eleanor Roosevelt
The First Lady
2022
7.0
Cat (voice)
Robin Robin
2021
Credits
The Abandons
as Constance Van Ness
2025
5.6
Trespasses
as Gina
2025
8.3
TRON: Ares
as Elisabeth Dillinger
2025
6.6
The Salt Path
as Raynor Winn
2025
6.7
Woolf Works
2024
0.0
Scoop
as Emily Maitlis
2024
6.3
White Bird
as Vivienne Beaumier
2023
7.8
The Pale Blue Eye
as Julia Marquis
2022
6.8
The First Lady
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2022
5.8
Robin Robin
as Cat (voice)
2021
7.0
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
as Self
2021
8.0
The Savoy
as Self
2020
7.9
The Sunlit Night
as Olyana
2020
5.5
This Changes Everything
as Self
2019
6.1
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Margo Channing
2019
8.5
Sex Education
as Jean Milburn
2019
8.2
UFO
as Dr. Hendricks
2018
6.9
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Wendy
2018
6.4
Crooked House
as Magda Leonides
2017
6.4
American Gods
as Media
2017
7.1
American Gods
as Goddess Media
2017
7.1
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
as Narrator
2017
8.5
Heroes Manufactured
as Self (archive footage)
2017
10.0
Viceroy's House
as Edwina Mountbatten
2017
6.6
Woolf Works
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
2017
2.0
The Crown
as Margaret Thatcher
2016
8.2
Sold
as Sophia
2016
6.4
War and Peace
as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
2016
7.6
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
as Self
2015
10.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
6.2
The Widowmaker
as Narrator
2015
6.8
Robot Overlords
as Kate
2015
4.8
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
as Narrator
2014
6.7
The Departure
as Blanche DuBois
2014
8.4
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
as Blanche DuBois
2014
7.8
Crisis
as Meg Fitch
2014
6.4
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
as Karen Morgan
2013
6.6
I'll Follow You Down
as Marika Whyte
2013
6.0
The Fall
as Stella Gibson
2013
7.7
Hannibal
as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
2013
8.3
Room on the Broom
as Witch (voice)
2012
6.6
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
2012
7.3
Sister
as Kristin Jansen
2012
6.7
Shadow Dancer
as Kate Fletcher
2012
5.9
Great Expectations
as Miss Havisham
2011
7.3
Johnny English Reborn
as Pamela
2011
6.2
Moby Dick
as Elizabeth
2011
5.7
The Crimson Petal and the White
as Mrs. Castaway
2011
7.0
Any Human Heart
as Duchess Of Windsor
2010
6.0
No Pressure
as Self
2010
7.0
Boogie Woogie
as Jean Maclestone
2010
5.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Eleanor Johnson
2008
6.0
The X Files: I Want to Believe
as Dana Scully
2008
5.8
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
2007
5.1
Straightheads
as Alice
2007
5.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Last King of Scotland
as Sarah Merrit
2006
7.4
Bleak House
as Lady Dedlock
2005
8.1
A Cock and Bull Story
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
2005
6.1
The Mighty Celt
as Kate
2005
6.3
Parkinson
as Self - Guest
2004
0.0
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
4.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
Top Gear
as Self
2002
7.5
American Idol
as Self
2002
5.1
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
as Self - Performer
2002
0.0
Richard & Judy
as Self
2001
2.9
The House of Mirth
as Lily Bart
2000
6.1
Harsh Realm
as Video Narrator (uncredited)
1999
6.4
Playing by Heart
as Meredith
1998
6.6
Chicago Cab
as Southside Girl
1998
5.6
The X-Files
as Agent Dana Scully
1998
6.9
The Magic Hour
as Self
1998
5.0
The Mighty
as Loretta Lee
1998
7.2
Inside The X-Files
as Self
1998
6.8
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
as Dana Scully / Self
1998
0.0
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
as Self
1998
0.0
Future Fantastic
as Self - Host
1996
7.0
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
More Secrets of the X-Files
as Self
1996
0.0
Secrets of the X-Files
as Self
1995
0.0
ReBoot
as Data Nully (voice)
1994
7.4
Frasier
as Jenny (voice)
1993
7.7
The X-Files
as Dana Scully
1993
8.4
Class of '96
as Rachel
1993
5.0
Eek! The Cat
as Dana Scully (voice)
1992
6.9
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
1992
5.4
The Turning
as April Cavanaugh
1992
2.8
The Simpsons
as Dana Scully (voice)
1989
8.0
This Morning
as Self
1988
5.2
A Matter of Choice
as Woman
1988
0.0
Three at Once
as Woman 1
1986
2.7
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.2
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
N/A
0.0
Animals
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Boys from Brazil
as Frieda Steiner
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Turning Door
as (voice)
N/A
0.0
The Julia Set
N/A
0.0