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