Cast & creator
Gillian Anderson
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Simpsons
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.
Also known as: Gillian Leigh Anderson
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Filmography (118)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Simpsons
Dana Scully (voice)
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
The X-Files
Dana Scully
1993The X-Files
Director
1993The X-Files
Writer
1993
Frasier
Jenny (voice)
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
1944
The South Bank Show
1978
The Crown
Margaret Thatcher
2016
American Idol
Self
2002
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Billy
2026
Sex Education
Jean Milburn
2019
Top Gear
Self
2002
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Hannibal
Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
2013
Last Meals
Self
2021
Richard & Judy
Self
2001
Parkinson
Self
1998
American Gods
Media
2017
V Graham Norton
Self
2002
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
Eek! The Cat
Dana Scully (voice)
1992
The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
2025
TRON: Ares
Elisabeth Dillinger
2025
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
2011
The Fall
Stella Gibson
2013
ReBoot
Data Nully (voice)
1994
War and Peace
Anna Pavlovna Scherer
2016
Crisis
Meg Fitch
2014
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
The Pale Blue Eye
Julia Marquis
2022
The First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
2022
The X-Files
Dana Scully
1998
Bleak House
Lady Dedlock
2005
Crooked House
Magda Leonides
2017
Johnny English Reborn
Pamela
2011
The Abandons
Constance Van Ness
2025
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Wendy
2018
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Dana Scully
2008
Class of '96
Rachel
1993
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Eleanor Johnson
2008
The Last King of Scotland
Sarah Merrit
2006
Animals
2026
White Bird
Vivienne Beaumier
2023
The Magic Hour
Self
1998
Trespasses
Gina Lavery
2025Trespasses
Executive Producer
2025
Harsh Realm
Video Narrator (uncredited)
1999
This Morning
Self - Guest
1988
Any Human Heart
Duchess Of Windsor
2010
The Crimson Petal and the White
Mrs. Castaway
2011
Playing by Heart
Meredith
1998
Scoop
Emily Maitlis
2024
Moby Dick
Elizabeth
2011
Room on the Broom
Witch (voice)
2012
A Cock and Bull Story
Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
2005
Robot Overlords
Kate
2015
UFO
Dr. Hendricks
2018
The Savoy
Self
2020The Boys from Brazil
Frieda Steiner
Boogie Woogie
Jean Maclestone
2010
Robin Robin
Cat (voice)
2021
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Karen Morgan
2013
Shadow Dancer
Kate Fletcher
2012
The Mighty
Loretta Lee
1998
This Changes Everything
Self
2019
Viceroy's House
Edwina Mountbatten
2017
Sister
Kristin Jansen
2012
Straightheads
Alice
2007
The House of Mirth
Lily Bart
2000
No Pressure
Self
2010
The Sunlit Night
Olyana
2020
I'll Follow You Down
Marika Whyte
2013
Future Fantastic
Self - Host
1996
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
Self
2012
More Secrets of the X-Files
Self
1996
Inside The X-Files
Self
1998
Chicago Cab
Southside Girl
1998
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
Self
1998
The Widowmaker
Narrator
2015
The Julia Set
2026The Julia Set
Producer
2026
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois
2014
Heroes Manufactured
Self (archive footage)
2017
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Margo Channing
2019
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
Queen Vorkana (voice)
2007
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Self
2021
Sold
Sophia
2016
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
Self
2015
The Mighty Celt
Kate
2005
Secrets of the X-Files
Self
1995
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
Narrator
2026The Turning Door
(voice)
Tron: Ares - A Special Look
Elisabeth Dillinger
2025
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Self - Performer
2002
The Turning
April Cavanaugh
1992
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
Narrator
2017
The Salt Path Scandal
Self (archive footage)
2025
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
Dana Scully / Self
1998
Woolf Works
Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
2017
A Matter of Choice
Woman
1988
The Departure
Blanche DuBois
2014The Departure
Director
2014
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003Why Planes Go Down
Narrator
1996
Three at Once
Woman 1
1986
Woolf Works
2024
Spies Above
narrator
1996