Gillian Anderson
Known for Acting · 108 credits
- Born
- 1968-08-09 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Gillian Leigh Anderson
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-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.
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Known For
TV Shows (46)
The Simpsons
1989
as Dana Scully (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
The X-Files
1993
as Dana Scully
Frasier
1993
as Jenny (voice)
The Crown
2016
as Margaret Thatcher
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee/Presenter / Self - Audience Member / Self - Winner
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
Hannibal
2013
as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Sex Education
2019
as Jean Milburn
American Idol
2002
as Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
American Gods
2017
as Media
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Eek! The Cat
1992
as Dana Scully (voice)
Parkinson
1998
as Self
The Fall
2013
as Stella Gibson
ReBoot
1994
as Data Nully (voice)
War and Peace
2016
as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
Crisis
2014
as Meg Fitch
The First Lady
2022
as Eleanor Roosevelt
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The Abandons
2025
as Constance Van Ness
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2014
as Narrator
Bleak House
2005
as Lady Dedlock
Class of '96
1993
as Rachel
Great Expectations
2011
as Miss Havisham
The Magic Hour
1998
as Self
Harsh Realm
1999
as Video Narrator (uncredited)
Any Human Heart
2010
as Duchess Of Windsor
This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
Moby Dick
2011
as Elizabeth
Trespasses
2025
as Gina
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011
as Mrs. Castaway
The Boys from Brazil
as Frieda Steiner
Parkinson
2004
as Self - Guest
The Savoy
2020
as Self
Future Fantastic
1996
as Self - Host
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
2026
as Narrator
Movies (62)
TRON: Ares
2025
as Elisabeth Dillinger
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026
as Billy
Johnny English Reborn
2011
as Pamela
The X-Files
1998
as Agent Dana Scully
Crooked House
2017
as Magda Leonides
The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018
as Wendy
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Julia Marquis
Boogie Woogie
2010
as Jean Maclestone
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
2008
as Dana Scully
White Bird
2023
as Vivienne Beaumier
The Last King of Scotland
2006
as Sarah Merrit
UFO
2018
as Dr. Hendricks
The Mighty
1998
as Loretta Lee
Playing by Heart
1998
as Meredith
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
as Eleanor Johnson
Scoop
2024
as Emily Maitlis
Chicago Cab
1998
as Southside Girl
Robot Overlords
2015
as Kate
Room on the Broom
2012
as Witch (voice)
The Salt Path
2025
as Raynor Winn
Straightheads
2007
as Alice
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013
as Karen Morgan
Robin Robin
2021
as Cat (voice)
Shadow Dancer
2012
as Kate Fletcher
A Cock and Bull Story
2005
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
This Changes Everything
2019
as Self
Heroes Manufactured
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Viceroy's House
2017
as Edwina Mountbatten
The House of Mirth
2000
as Lily Bart
Sister
2012
as Kristin Jansen
Sold
2016
as Sophia
I'll Follow You Down
2013
as Marika Whyte
The Sunlit Night
2020
as Olyana
No Pressure
2010
as Self
Inside The X-Files
1998
as Self
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014
as Blanche DuBois
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
as Self
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
as Self
The Julia Set
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021
as Self
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
2007
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
The Turning Door
as (voice)
Animals
The Turning
1992
as April Cavanaugh
Tron: Ares - A Special Look
2025
as Elisabeth Dillinger
Secrets of the X-Files
1995
as Self
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019
as Margo Channing
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002
as Self - Performer
The Salt Path Scandal
2025
as Self (archive footage)
The Departure
2014
as Blanche DuBois
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998
as Dana Scully / Self
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
2017
as Narrator
The Mighty Celt
2005
as Kate
Woolf Works
2017
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
The Widowmaker
2015
as Narrator
More Secrets of the X-Files
1996
as Self
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
1998
as Self
Three at Once
1986
as Woman 1
Woolf Works
2024
A Matter of Choice
1988
as Woman
Spies Above
1996
as narrator
Why Planes Go Down
1996
as Narrator
About 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,… With 108 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Gillian Anderson has appeared in 62 films and 46 TV shows.
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- TRON: Ares (2025) — as Elisabeth Dillinger
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) — as Billy
- Johnny English Reborn (2011) — as Pamela
- The X-Files (1998) — as Agent Dana Scully
- Crooked House (2017) — as Magda Leonides
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