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.
107 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 107
The Simpsons
1989
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The X-Files
1993
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Frasier
1993
Top Gear
2002
The Crown
2016
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Hannibal
2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
American Idol
2002
Sex Education
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
American Gods
2017
Richard & Judy
2001
TRON: Ares
2025
V Graham Norton
2002
The Fall
2013
Parkinson
1998
Eek! The Cat
1992
War and Peace
2016
ReBoot
1994
The Abandons
2025
The First Lady
2022
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2014
The Salt Path
2025
Crisis
2014
Bleak House
2005
Johnny English Reborn
2011
Class of '96
1993
The X-Files
1998
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Harsh Realm
1999
Great Expectations
2011
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026
The Magic Hour
1998
The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018
The Last King of Scotland
2006
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011
Any Human Heart
2010
Crooked House
2017
White Bird
2023
Moby Dick
2011
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Trespasses
2025
UFO
2018
This Morning
1988
Scoop
2024
The Boys from Brazil
—
Robot Overlords
2015
The Mighty
1998
Playing by Heart
1998
Straightheads
2007
This Changes Everything
2019
The Savoy
2020
Boogie Woogie
2010
Shadow Dancer
2012
Room on the Broom
2012
A Cock and Bull Story
2005
Robin Robin
2021
Parkinson
2004
Chicago Cab
1998
Heroes Manufactured
2017
Future Fantastic
1996
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013
The Sunlit Night
2020
The House of Mirth
2000
Animals
—
I'll Follow You Down
2013
Viceroy's House
2017
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
The Mighty Celt
2005
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021
Sold
2016
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
2007
Inside The X-Files
1998
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019
Sister
2012
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
The Turning
1992
The Julia Set
—
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
2017
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998
No Pressure
2010
Woolf Works
2017
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
1998
Tron: Ares - A Special Look
2025
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002
The Turning Door
—
More Secrets of the X-Files
1996
Secrets of the X-Files
1995
The Salt Path Scandal
2025
The Departure
2014
Woolf Works
2024
The Widowmaker
2015
Why Planes Go Down
1996
Three at Once
1986
A Matter of Choice
1988
Spies Above
1996