Anderson, Gillian

Anderson, Gillian

▪ American actress
born Aug. 9, 1968, Chicago, Ill., U.S.

      American actress best known for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the television series The X-Files (1993–2002).

      In high school Anderson thought about becoming a marine biologist, but community theatre participation whetted her appetite for acting. She earned a B.F.A. degree at the Goodman Theatre School at DePaul University, Chicago, and attended the National Theatre of Great Britain's summer program at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., before pursuing a theatre career in New York City. Anderson appeared in the Off-Broadway production Absent Friends, winning a 1991 Theatre World Award, and in The Philanthropist at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., before moving to Los Angeles.

      After a few motion-picture and television appearances, Anderson got her big break when she auditioned for a part on The X-Files. At the insistence of the show's creator, Chris Carter, she landed her first starring role, playing Dana Scully, a skeptical scientist and doctor working as an FBI special agent alongside Fox (“Spooky”) Mulder (played by David Duchovny (Duchovny, David)). Together the partners investigated paranormal events and government conspiracies. The story lines as well as the chemistry between Anderson and Duchovny made The X-Files one of the most popular shows on television in the 1990s, averaging 20 million viewers each week. In 1998 the motion picture The X-Files: Fight the Future took in more than $30 million in its first weekend. Although the television series ended in 2002, a second movie, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, was released in 2008.

Barbara Whitney
      Anderson also starred in such films as The House of Mirth (2000), an adaptation of Edith Wharton (Wharton, Edith)'s novel; The Mighty Celt (2005); and The Last King of Scotland (2006), which centres on Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Amin, Idi). In 2005 she portrayed Lady Dedlock in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens (Dickens, Charles)'s Bleak House; the acclaimed miniseries aired in the United States the following year.

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