Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson

Birthday: 1968-08-09

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as: Gillian Leigh Anderson, Джілліан Андерсон, Τζίλιαν Άντερσον, 질리언 앤더슨, ジリアン・アンダーソン, 吉蓮·安德森, جیلیان اندرسون

imdb_id: nm0000096

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.

Played in movies:

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

Score: 10.0

Heroes Manufactured

Score: 10.0

National Theatre Live: All About Eve

Score: 8.5

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism

Score: 8.5

The Departure

Score: 8.4

Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day

Score: 8.0

White Bird

Score: 7.8

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

Score: 7.7

The Last King of Scotland

Score: 7.4

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

Score: 7.3

The Mighty

Score: 7.3

Robin Robin

Score: 7.0

No Pressure

Score: 7.0

UFO

Score: 6.9

The X-Files

Score: 6.9

The Pale Blue Eye

Score: 6.8

Inside The X-Files

Score: 6.8

The Widowmaker

Score: 6.8

Sister

Score: 6.7

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

Score: 6.6

Viceroy's House

Score: 6.6

Room on the Broom

Score: 6.6

Playing by Heart

Score: 6.6

TRON: Ares

Score: 6.5

The Salt Path

Score: 6.5

Sold

Score: 6.4

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Score: 6.4

Crooked House

Score: 6.4

Scoop

Score: 6.3

The Mighty Celt

Score: 6.3

Johnny English Reborn

Score: 6.2

This Changes Everything

Score: 6.2

The House of Mirth

Score: 6.2

A Cock and Bull Story

Score: 6.2

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Score: 6.0

I'll Follow You Down

Score: 6.0

Shadow Dancer

Score: 5.9

The X Files: I Want to Believe

Score: 5.8

The Sunlit Night

Score: 5.6

Chicago Cab

Score: 5.5

Straightheads

Score: 5.3

Boogie Woogie

Score: 5.1

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind

Score: 5.0

Robot Overlords

Score: 4.8

Three at Once

Score: 3.5

The Turning

Score: 3.0

Woolf Works

Score: 2.0

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Score: 0.0

Animals

Score: 0.0

Woolf Works

Score: 0.0

Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten

Score: 0.0

A Matter of Choice

Score: 0.0

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The X-Files

Score: 8.4

Hannibal

Score: 8.3

Sex Education

Score: 8.2

The Crown

Score: 8.2

Bleak House

Score: 8.2

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Savoy

Score: 7.9

Frasier

Score: 7.7

The Fall

Score: 7.7

War and Peace

Score: 7.6

Top Gear

Score: 7.5

ReBoot

Score: 7.4

Great Expectations

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

The Crimson Petal and the White

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

American Gods

Score: 7.1

American Gods

Score: 7.1

Future Fantastic

Score: 7.0

Eek! The Cat

Score: 6.9

Ronja the Robber's Daughter

Score: 6.7

Any Human Heart

Score: 6.6

Crisis

Score: 6.4

Harsh Realm

Score: 6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.2

The First Lady

Score: 5.9

Moby Dick

Score: 5.7

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Score: 5.4

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

This Morning

Score: 5.2

American Idol

Score: 5.1

The Magic Hour

Score: 5.0

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.0

V Graham Norton

Score: 5.0

Class of '96

Score: 5.0

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.6

Celebrities Uncensored

Score: 4.0

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Score: 3.9

Richard & Judy

Score: 2.9

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

Trespasses

Score: 0.0

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

The Abandons

Score: 0.0