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Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Aliases
  • Gillian Leigh Anderson
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Filmography

The Pale Blue Eye

2022
as Julia Marquis

The Spy Who Dumped Me

2018
as Wendy

Johnny English Reborn

2011
as Pamela Thornton 'Pegasus'

The X Files

1998
as Agent Dana Scully

The X Files: I Want to Believe

2008
as Dana Scully

Crooked House

2017
as Magda Leonides

The Last King of Scotland

2006
as Sarah Merrit

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

2007
as Jenn

No Pressure

2010
as Herself

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

2002
as Performer

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

2012
as Gillian Anderson

The Mighty Celt

2005
as Kate

Scoop

2024
as Emily Maitlis

Chicago Cab

1997
as Southside Girl

Straightheads

2007
as Alice

Pistachio Boy

2020
as Mother

Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost

2011
as Jenn (voice)

White Bird: A Wonder Story

2023
as Vivienne

The Turning

1992
as April Cavanaugh

Sister

2012
as Kristin Jansen

Andorra

as Miss Quay

The House of Mirth

2000
as Lily Bart

A Cock and Bull Story

2005
as Widow Wadman / Herself

Shadow Dancer

2012
as Kate Fletcher

Inside The X-Files

1998
as Gillian Anderson

All About Eve

2019
as Margo Channing

Sold

2016
as Sophia

Playing by Heart

1998
as Meredith

The Widowmaker

2015
as Narrator

Robot Overlords

2015
as Kate

Heroes Manufactured

2016
as Self (archive footage)

Exhibition on Screen: The Artist’s Garden - American Impressionism

2017
as Narrator

Room on the Broom

2012
as Witch (voice)

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

2014
as Blanche DuBois

The Mighty

1998
as Loretta Lee

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008
as Eleanor Johnson

The Sunlit Night

2019
as Olyana

UFO

2018
as Dr. Hendricks

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

2009
as Jenn (voice)

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

2006
as Jenn (voice)

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

2013
as Karen Morgan

Robin Robin

2021
as Cat

I'll Follow You Down

2013
as Marika

Viceroy's House

2017
as Edwina Mountbatten

Concert for Diana

2007
as Gillian Anderson

Jesse Stone: No Remorse

2010
as Jenn (voice)

Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon

2015
as Gillian Anderson

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

1998
as Gillian Anderson

Boogie Woogie

2009
as Jean Maclestone

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

2015
as Jenn

This Changes Everything

2018
as Herself