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Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson’s screen credits include Sarah Merrit in The Last King of Scotland, Wendy in The Spy Who Dumped Me, and Dayle Burton in Animals.
Born August 9, 1968 Chicago, Illinois, USA3 movies on MoviHero
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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). …
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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.
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- 2026The Julia SetActor · Producer
- 2026Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaBilly
- 2025The Salt Path ScandalSelf (archive footage)
- 2025TRON: AresElisabeth Dillinger
- 2025Tron: Ares - A Special LookElisabeth Dillinger
- 2025The Salt PathRaynor Winn
- 2024Woolf WorksActor
- 2024ScoopEmily Maitlis
- 2023White BirdVivienne Beaumier
- 2022The Pale Blue EyeJulia Marquis
- 2021Robin RobinCat (voice)
- 2021Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s DaySelf
- 2020The Sunlit NightOlyana
- 2019This Changes EverythingSelf
- 2019National Theatre Live: All About EveMargo Channing
- 2018UFODr. Hendricks
- 2017Crooked HouseMagda Leonides
- 2017The Artist’s Garden: American ImpressionismNarrator
- 2017Heroes ManufacturedSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Viceroy's HouseEdwina Mountbatten
- 2017Woolf WorksVoiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
- 2016SoldSophia
- 2015Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red DragonSelf
- 2015The WidowmakerNarrator
- 2015Robot OverlordsKate
- 2014The DepartureDirector · Blanche DuBois
- 2014National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named DesireBlanche DuBois
- 2013Mr. Morgan's Last LoveKaren Morgan
- 2013I'll Follow You DownMarika Whyte
- 2012Room on the BroomWitch (voice)
- 2012FOX 25th Anniversary SpecialSelf
- 2012SisterKristin Jansen
- 2012Shadow DancerKate Fletcher
- 2011Johnny English RebornPamela
- 2010No PressureSelf
- 2010Boogie WoogieJean Maclestone
- 2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleEleanor Johnson
- 2008The X-Files: I Want to BelieveDana Scully
- 2007Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd KindQueen Vorkana (voice)
- 2007StraightheadsAlice
- 2005A Cock and Bull StoryWidow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
- 2005The Mighty CeltKate
- 2002Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted EveningSelf - Performer
- 2000The House of MirthLily Bart
- 1998Playing by HeartMeredith
- 1998Chicago CabSouthside Girl
- 1998The X-FilesDana Scully
- 1998The MightyLoretta Lee
- 1998Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wolltenDana Scully / Self
- 1998Inside The X-FilesSelf
- 1998The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'Self
- 1996More Secrets of the X-FilesSelf
- 1996Spies Abovenarrator
- 1996Why Planes Go DownNarrator
- 1995Secrets of the X-FilesSelf
- 1992The TurningApril Cavanaugh
- 1988A Matter of ChoiceWoman
- 1986Three at OnceWoman 1
- The Turning Door(voice)
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