Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026 · Movie
as Billy
Gillian Anderson
1968-08-09
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Writers: The X-Files
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.
Filmography
The Julia Set
2026 · Movie
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
2026 · TV Show
as Narrator
The Salt Path
2025 · Movie
as Raynor Winn
TRON: Ares
2025 · Movie
as Elisabeth Dillinger
The Salt Path Scandal
2025 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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Tron: Ares - A Special Look
2025 · Movie
as Elisabeth Dillinger
The Abandons
2025 · TV Show
as Constance Van Ness
Trespasses
2025 · TV Show
as Gina
Scoop
2024 · Movie
as Emily Maitlis
Woolf Works
2024 · Movie
White Bird
2023 · Movie
as Vivienne Beaumier
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Movie
as Julia Marquis
The First Lady
2022 · TV Show
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Robin Robin
2021 · Movie
as Cat (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021 · Movie
as Self
The Sunlit Night
2020 · Movie
as Olyana
The Savoy
2020 · TV Show
as Self
This Changes Everything
2019 · Movie
as Self
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019 · Movie
as Margo Channing
Sex Education
2019 · TV Show
as Jean Milburn
UFO
2018 · Movie
as Dr. Hendricks
The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018 · Movie
as Wendy
Heroes Manufactured
2017 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Crooked House
2017 · Movie
as Magda Leonides
Viceroy's House
2017 · Movie
as Edwina Mountbatten
Woolf Works
2017 · Movie
as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
2017 · Movie
as Narrator
American Gods
2017 · TV Show
as Media
Sold
2016 · Movie
as Sophia
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
as Margaret Thatcher
War and Peace
2016 · TV Show
as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 · TV Show
as Self - Guide
Robot Overlords
2015 · Movie
as Kate
The Widowmaker
2015 · Movie
as Narrator
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015 · Movie
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014 · Movie
as Blanche DuBois
The Departure
2014 · Movie
as Blanche DuBois
Crisis
2014 · TV Show
as Meg Fitch
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2014 · TV Show
as Narrator
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · TV Show
as Self
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013 · Movie
as Karen Morgan
I'll Follow You Down
2013 · Movie
as Marika Whyte
The Fall
2013 · TV Show
as Stella Gibson
Hannibal
2013 · TV Show
as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012 · Movie
as Self
Shadow Dancer
2012 · Movie
as Kate Fletcher
Sister
2012 · Movie
as Kristin Jansen
Room on the Broom
2012 · Movie
as Witch (voice)
Johnny English Reborn
2011 · Movie
as Pamela
Great Expectations
2011 · TV Show
as Miss Havisham
Moby Dick
2011 · TV Show
as Elizabeth
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011 · TV Show
as Mrs. Castaway
Boogie Woogie
2010 · Movie
as Jean Maclestone
No Pressure
2010 · Movie
as Self
Any Human Heart
2010 · TV Show
as Duchess Of Windsor
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
2008 · Movie
as Dana Scully
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · Movie
as Eleanor Johnson
Straightheads
2007 · Movie
as Alice
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
2007 · Movie
as Queen Vorkana (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV Show
as Self
The Last King of Scotland
2006 · Movie
as Sarah Merrit
The Mighty Celt
2005 · Movie
as Kate
A Cock and Bull Story
2005 · Movie
as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
Bleak House
2005 · TV Show
as Lady Dedlock
Parkinson
2004 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Celebrities Uncensored
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002 · Movie
as Self - Performer
American Idol
2002 · TV Show
as Self
V Graham Norton
2002 · TV Show
as Self
Top Gear
2002 · TV Show
as Self
Richard & Judy
2001 · TV Show
as Self
The House of Mirth
2000 · Movie
as Lily Bart
Harsh Realm
1999 · TV Show
as Video Narrator (uncredited)
Playing by Heart
1998 · Movie
as Meredith
The X-Files
1998 · Movie
as Dana Scully
The Mighty
1998 · Movie
as Loretta Lee
Chicago Cab
1998 · Movie
as Southside Girl
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998 · Movie
as Dana Scully / Self
Inside The X-Files
1998 · Movie
as Self
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
1998 · Movie
as Self
The Magic Hour
1998 · TV Show
as Self
Parkinson
1998 · TV Show
as Self
More Secrets of the X-Files
1996 · Movie
as Self
No image
Why Planes Go Down
1996 · Movie
as Narrator
No image
Spies Above
1996 · Movie
as narrator
Future Fantastic
1996 · TV Show
as Self - Host
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Secrets of the X-Files
1995 · Movie
as Self
ReBoot
1994 · TV Show
as Data Nully (voice)
The X-Files
1993 · TV Show
as Dana Scully
Class of '96
1993 · TV Show
as Rachel
Frasier
1993 · TV Show
as Jenny (voice)
The Turning
1992 · Movie
as April Cavanaugh
Eek! The Cat
1992 · TV Show
as Dana Scully (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
as Dana Scully (voice)
A Matter of Choice
1988 · Movie
as Woman
This Morning
1988 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Three at Once
1986 · Movie
as Woman 1
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV Show
as Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee/Presenter, Self - Audience Member, Self - Winner
Animals
· Movie
No image
The Turning Door
· Movie
as (voice)
No image
The Boys from Brazil
· TV Show
as Frieda Steiner
