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person_profile-Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson Age: 56

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gillian Anderson

Date of Birth:

Aug 09, 1968

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Gillian Anderson

    Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. Her film work includes The House of Mirth (2000), The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), and two X-Files films, The X-Files (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).

    Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Anderson (née Lane), a computer analyst, and Edward Anderson, who owned a film post-production company.Her father was of English descent, while her mother was of Irish and German ancestry. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months; her family then moved to the United Kingdom where she lived until she was 11 years old. She lived for five years in Rosebery Gardens, Crouch End, London, and for 15 months in Albany Road, Stroud Green, London, so that her father could attend the London Film School.

    She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School. When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities; she graduated in 1986.

    Along with other actors (notably Linda Thorson and John Barrowman) Anderson is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, Anderson was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwest accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location — for instance, in an interview with Jay Leno she spoke in an American accent, but shifted it for an interview with Michael Parkinson.

    Anderson was interested in marine biology, but began acting her freshman year in high school productions, and later in community theater, and served as a student intern at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts. She attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago (formerly the Goodman School of Drama), where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990. She also participated in the National Theatre of Great Britain's summer program at Cornell University.

    Anderson's brother died in 2011 of a brain tumor, at the age of 30.

    Anderson married her first husband, Clyde Klotz, The X-Files series assistant art director, on New Year's Day, 1994, in Hawaii in a Buddhist ceremony. They had a daughter, Piper Maru (born September 1994), for whom Chris Carter named the X-Files episode of the same name, and divorced in 1997.] In December 2004, Anderson married Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya. Anderson announced their separation on April 21, 2006.

    Anderson and former boyfriend, Mark Griffiths, have two sons: Oscar, born November 2006 and Felix, born October 2008. She ended their relationship in 2012. In March 2012, Anderson told Out magazine about her past relationship with a girl while in high school.

    In 1997, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Askmen listed her at No. 6 on their Top 7: '90s Sex Symbols. In 2008, she was listed 21st in FHM's All Time 100 Sexiest Hall of Fame.

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Filmography of

Gillian Anderson

Found 45 Movies in total

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

Scoop

Emily Maitlis ( Actor )

... 2024

White Bird

Vivienne Beaumier ( Actor )

... 2023

The Pale Blue Eye

Julia Marquis ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2021

The Sunlit Night

Olyana ( Actor )

... 2020

This Changes Everything

Herself ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

UFO

Dr. Hendricks ( Actor )

... 2018

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Wendy ( Actor )

... 2018

Crooked House

Magda Leonides ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

Heroes Manufactured

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

Viceroy's House

Edwina Mountbatten ( Actor )

... 2017

Woolf Works

Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

Sold

Sophia ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2015

The Widowmaker

Narrator ( Actor )

... 2015

Robot Overlords

Kate ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

Karen Morgan ( Actor )

... 2013

I'll Follow You Down

Marika ( Actor )

... 2013

Hannibal

Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2012

Sister

Kristin Jansen ( Actor )

... 2012

Shadow Dancer

Kate Fletcher ( Actor )

... 2012

Johnny English Reborn

Pamela Thornton ("Pegasus") ( Actor )

... 2011

Boogie Woogie

Jean Maclestone ( Actor )

... 2009

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Eleanor Johnson ( Actor )

... 2008

The X Files: I Want to Believe

Dana Scully ( Actor )

... 2008

Straightheads

Alice ( Actor )

... 2007

The Last King of Scotland

Sarah Merrit ( Actor )

... 2006

A Cock and Bull Story

Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson ( Actor )

... 2005

The Mighty Celt

Kate ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2002

The House of Mirth

Lily Bart ( Actor )

... 2000

Playing by Heart

Meredith ( Actor )

... 1998

Chicago Cab

Southside Girl ( Actor )

... 1998

The X-Files

Agent Dana Scully ( Actor )

... 1998

The Mighty

Loretta Lee ( Actor )

... 1998

Inside The X-Files

Herself ( Actor )

... 1998

Jose Chung's From Outer Space

Dana Scully ( Actor )

... 1996

The Turning

April Cavanaugh ( Actor )

... 1992