Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE (/ˈdʒɪliən/ JIL-ee-ən; 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
Credits
- 2025 · TRON: Ares as
- 2024 · The Salt Path as Raynor Winn
- 2024 · Scoop as Emily Maitlis
- 2023 · White Bird as Vivienne Beaumier
- 2022 · The Pale Blue Eye as Julia Marquis
- 2022 · The First Lady as Eleanor Roosevelt
- 2019 · Sex Education as Jean Milburn
- 2018 · The Spy Who Dumped Me as Wendy
- 2017 · American Gods as Media
- 2017 · American Gods as Goddess Media
- 2016 · The Crown as Margaret Thatcher
- 2016 · War and Peace as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Robot Overlords as Kate
- 2014 · Ronja the Robber's Daughter as Narrator
- 2014 · Crisis as Meg Fitch
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · The Fall as Stella Gibson
- 2013 · Hannibal as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
- 2011 · Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
- 2011 · Johnny English Reborn as Pamela Thornton ("Pegasus")
- 2011 · The Crimson Petal and the White as Mrs. Castaway
- 2010 · Any Human Heart as Duchess Of Windsor
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · The X Files: I Want to Believe as Dana Scully
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The Last King of Scotland as Sarah Merrit
- 2005 · Bleak House as Lady Dedlock
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · American Idol as Self
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2001 · Richard & Judy as Self
- 1999 · Harsh Realm as Video Narrator (uncredited)
- 1998 · The X-Files as Agent Dana Scully
- 1998 · The Magic Hour as Self
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1994 · ReBoot as Data Nully (voice)
- 1993 · Frasier as Jenny (voice)
- 1993 · The X-Files as Dana Scully
- 1993 · Class of '96 as Rachel
- 1992 · Eek! The Cat as Dana Scully (voice)
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self - Guest
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Dana Scully (voice)
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee/Presenter
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member
- Future · The Abandons as Constance Van Ness
- 2024 · Woolf Works as
- 2021 · Robin Robin as Cat (voice)
- 2021 · Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day as Self
- 2020 · The Savoy as Self
- 2020 · The Sunlit Night as Olyana
- 2019 · This Changes Everything as Self
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: All About Eve as Margo Channing
- 2018 · UFO as Dr. Hendricks
- 2017 · Crooked House as Magda Leonides
- 2017 · The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism as Narrator
- 2017 · Heroes Manufactured as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Viceroy's House as Edwina Mountbatten
- 2017 · Woolf Works as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
- 2016 · Sold as Sophia
- 2015 · Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon as Self
- 2015 · The Widowmaker as Narrator
- 2014 · The Departure as Blanche DuBois
- 2014 · National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
- 2013 · Mr. Morgan's Last Love as Karen Morgan
- 2013 · I'll Follow You Down as Marika Whyte
- 2012 · Room on the Broom as Witch (voice)
- 2012 · FOX 25th Anniversary Special as Self
- 2012 · Sister as Kristin Jansen
- 2012 · Shadow Dancer as Kate Fletcher
- 2011 · Moby Dick as Elizabeth
- 2010 · No Pressure as Self
- 2009 · Boogie Woogie as Jean Maclestone
- 2008 · How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Eleanor Johnson
- 2007 · Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind as Queen Vorkana (voice)
- 2007 · Straightheads as Alice
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
- 2005 · The Mighty Celt as Kate
- 2004 · Parkinson as Self - Guest
- 2003 · Celebrities Uncensored as Self
- 2000 · The House of Mirth as Lily Bart
- 1998 · Playing by Heart as Meredith
- 1998 · Chicago Cab as Southside Girl
- 1998 · The Mighty as Loretta Lee
- 1996 · Future Fantastic as Self - Host
- Future · The Inspiration of Alfie Swincross as Alison Appleby
- Future · Trespasses as Gina
- 1998 · Inside The X-Files as Self
- Future · Animals as
- 2002 · Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening as Self - Performer
- 1998 · Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten as Dana Scully / Self
- 1992 · The Turning as April Cavanaugh
- 1988 · A Matter of Choice as Woman
- 1986 · Three at Once as Woman 1