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Gillian Leigh Anderson, Джілліан Андерсон, Τζίλιαν Άντερσον, 질리언 앤더슨, ジリアン・アンダーソン, 吉蓮·安德森, جیلیان اندرسون
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Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE (/ˈdʒɪliən/ JIL-ee-ən; 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-Filesfilms 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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1968-08-09
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 5.7
- info Birth Place Chicago, Illinois, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Gillian Anderson
7.5
The Last King of Scotland
2006-01-12
6.6
Playing by Heart
1998-12-30
6.9
The X-Files
1998-06-19
6.4
The Mighty Celt
2005-02-11
6.4
Scoop
2024-03-27
3.3
The Turning
1992-01-01
6.2
A Cock and Bull Story
2005-07-17
5.8
The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008-07-24
6.3
The House of Mirth
2000-09-23
7.2
The Mighty
1998-06-01
6
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008-10-02
5.2
Straightheads
2007-04-27
6.9
The Pale Blue Eye
2022-12-22
5.1
Boogie Woogie
2009-06-26
7.3
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012-04-22
0
The Salt Path
2024-09-05
5.9
Shadow Dancer
2012-02-12
6.2
Johnny English Reborn
2011-09-15
0
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
2002-01-01
6.7
Sister
2012-04-04
10
Heroes Manufactured
2017-03-10
6.5
Room on the Broom
2012-12-25
5.3
Chicago Cab
1998-09-18
8
White Bird
2023-10-25
6.7
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013-08-22
4.8
Robot Overlords
2014-10-18
6.5
Sold
2016-04-01
6.1
I'll Follow You Down
2013-07-28
3.5
Three at Once
1986-01-01
0
A Matter of Choice
1988-01-01
7.5
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014-09-16
7
No Pressure
2010-09-01
0
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998-02-01
9
The Departure
2014-10-02
0
TRON: Ares
2025-10-08
6.8
The Widowmaker
2015-02-27
6.8
Inside The X-Files
1998-02-01
0
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015-12-08
0
Woolf Works
2024-06-25
6.4
Crooked House
2017-09-06
6.9
UFO
2018-09-04
6.7
Viceroy's House
2017-03-03
5
Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
2007-12-25
2
Woolf Works
2017-02-08
8.5
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
2017-03-26
6.4
The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018-08-02
6.2
This Changes Everything
2019-06-28
5.6
The Sunlit Night
2020-06-06
8.5
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019-03-11
7.1
Robin Robin
2021-10-09
8
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021-03-08
0
The Inspiration of Alfie Swincross
0
Animals
8
The Simpsons
1989-12-17
7.4
ReBoot
1994-09-10
6.4
Harsh Realm
1999-10-08
8.2
Bleak House
2005-10-27
2.9
Richard & Judy
2001-11-26
5.1
American Idol
2002-06-11
8.4
The X-Files
1993-09-10
8.2
The Crown
2016-11-04
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20
0
Future Fantastic
1996-06-21
2.5
Celebrities Uncensored
2003-06-04
5
Class of '96
1993-01-19
6.2
The First Lady
2022-04-17
5
V Graham Norton
2002-05-06
7.2
Great Expectations
2011-12-27
7.7
The Fall
2013-05-12
6
Any Human Heart
2010-11-21
7.2
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011-04-06
5.7
Moby Dick
2011-05-08
8.2
Hannibal
2013-04-04
5.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003-01-26
6.4
Crisis
2014-03-16
7.6
War and Peace
2016-01-03
5.4
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014-02-25
0
The Abandons
6.4
Ronja the Robber's Daughter
2014-10-11
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
7.7
Frasier
1993-09-16
6.8
Eek! The Cat
1992-09-11
7.9
The Savoy
2020-09-30
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992-05-25
8.2
Sex Education
2019-01-11
3.5
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996-06-10
0
Parkinson
2004-09-04
7.1
American Gods
2017-04-30
4.8
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009-07-16
6.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08
5
The Magic Hour
1998-06-08
0
Trespasses
7.1
American Gods
2017-04-30
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20
0
Parkinson
1998-01-09
7.5
Top Gear
2002-10-20
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20
5.5
This Morning
1988-10-03
4.4
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21