Gillian Anderson
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). 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.
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Animals
as Unknown
The Julia Set
as Unknown
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
as Narrator
The Salt Path Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
The Abandons
as Constance Van Ness
Trespasses
as Gina Lavery
TRON: Ares
as Elisabeth Dillinger
The Salt Path
as Raynor Winn
Woolf Works
as Unknown
Scoop
as Emily Maitlis
White Bird
as Vivienne Beaumier
The Pale Blue Eye
as Julia Marquis
The First Lady
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Last Meals
as Self
Robin Robin
as Cat (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
as Self
The Savoy
as Self
The Sunlit Night
as Olyana
This Changes Everything
as Self
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Margo Channing
UFO
as Dr. Hendricks
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Wendy
Crooked House
as Magda Leonides
American Gods
as Media
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
as Narrator
Heroes Manufactured
as Self (archive footage)
Viceroy's House
as Edwina Mountbatten
Woolf Works
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
The Crown
as Margaret Thatcher
Sold
as Sophia
War and Peace
as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
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The Widowmaker
as Narrator
Robot Overlords
as Kate
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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The Departure
as Blanche DuBois
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
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Crisis
as Meg Fitch
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
as Karen Morgan
I'll Follow You Down
as Marika Whyte
The Fall
as Stella Gibson
Room on the Broom
as Witch (voice)
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
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Sister
as Kristin Jansen
Shadow Dancer
as Kate Fletcher
Great Expectations
as Miss Havisham
Johnny English Reborn
as Pamela
Moby Dick
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The Crimson Petal and the White
as Mrs. Castaway
Any Human Heart
as Duchess Of Windsor
No Pressure
as Self
Boogie Woogie
as Jean Maclestone
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Eleanor Johnson
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
as Dana Scully
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
Straightheads
as Alice
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Last King of Scotland
as Sarah Merrit
Bleak House
as Lady Dedlock
A Cock and Bull Story
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
The Mighty Celt
as Kate
Parkinson
as Self - Guest
Celebrities Uncensored
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Top Gear
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American Idol
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V Graham Norton
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Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
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Richard & Judy
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The House of Mirth
as Lily Bart
Harsh Realm
as Video Narrator (uncredited)
Playing by Heart
as Meredith
Chicago Cab
as Southside Girl
The X-Files
as Dana Scully
The Magic Hour
as Self
The Mighty
as Loretta Lee
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
as Dana Scully / Self
Inside The X-Files
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Parkinson
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The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
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Future Fantastic
as Self - Host
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
More Secrets of the X-Files
as Self
Spies Above
as narrator
Secrets of the X-Files
as Self
ReBoot
as Data Nully (voice)
Frasier
as Jenny (voice)
The X-Files
as Dana Scully
Class of '96
as Rachel
Eek! The Cat
as Dana Scully (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
The Turning
as April Cavanaugh
The Simpsons
as Dana Scully (voice)
This Morning
as Self - Guest
A Matter of Choice
as Woman
Three at Once
as Woman 1
The South Bank Show
as Unknown
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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