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