Gillian Anderson
Acting
Born August 9, 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 Gui…
Known For · 40 titles
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Simpsons
The X-Files
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Frasier
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
Sex Education
The Crown
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
American Idol
Top Gear
Hannibal
Richard & Judy
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
American Gods
Parkinson
TRON: Ares
V Graham Norton
The Fall
Eek! The Cat
War and Peace
Bleak House
ReBoot
The X-Files
The First Lady
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Crisis
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Abandons
Johnny English Reborn
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
The Spy Who Dumped Me
The Pale Blue Eye
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Great Expectations
Class of '96