Gillian Anderson

Acting

Born: 1968-08-09

From: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender: Female

Popularity: 3.8

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillian Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Awards & Nominations10 won · 32 nominated

🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

2018

🏆 Won

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

2016

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

Great Expectations

2012

Nominated

British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress

Any Human Heart

2011

Nominated

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress

2010

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

Bleak House

2006

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

Bleak House

2006

Nominated

British Academy Television Award for Best Actress

Bleak House

2006

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

2001

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

2001

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture

The House of Mirth

2001

🏆 Won

British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film

The House of Mirth

2000

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

2000

Nominated

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

The House of Mirth

2000

Nominated

British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film

The House of Mirth

2000

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1999

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1999

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1999

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1999

Nominated

Saturn Award for Best Actress

The X-Files

1999

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1998

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1998

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1998

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1998

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1998

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1997

🏆 Won

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1997

🏆 Won

Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television

The X-Files

1997

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1997

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1997

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1997

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1997

Nominated

TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama

The X-Files

1997

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1997

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1996

🏆 Won

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1996

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1996

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

The X-Files

1996

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1996

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The X-Files

1995

🏆 Won

Theatre World Award

1991

🏆 Won

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

Gillian Anderson

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations10 won · 32 nominated

Acting103 titles

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

Secrets of the X-Files

Heroes Manufactured

A Matter of Choice

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism

National Theatre Live: All About Eve

The Departure

The X-Files

The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'

Hannibal

The Crown

Sex Education

Bleak House

Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day

The Simpsons

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

The Savoy

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

White Bird

The Fall

Frasier

War and Peace

Top Gear

Future Fantastic

The Last King of Scotland

ReBoot

Great Expectations

The Mighty

The Graham Norton Show

Golden Globe Awards

American Gods

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

No Pressure

Inside The X-Files

Robin Robin

The Crimson Petal and the White

The Magic Hour

The X-Files

UFO

Eek! The Cat

The Pale Blue Eye

The Widowmaker

The Salt Path

Sister

Class of '96

Ronja, the Robber's Daughter

Playing by Heart

Room on the Broom

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

Viceroy's House

Trespasses

TRON: Ares

Harsh Realm

Sold

Crooked House

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Any Human Heart

Crisis

The Mighty Celt

Scoop

A Cock and Bull Story

The House of Mirth

Johnny English Reborn

This Changes Everything

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

I'll Follow You Down

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Shadow Dancer

Chicago Cab

The First Lady

Moby Dick

The Abandons

The Sunlit Night