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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
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Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. Her film work includes The House of Mirth (2000), The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), and two X-Files films, The X-Files (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Anderson (née Lane), a computer analyst, and Edward Anderson, who owned a film post-production company.Her father was of English descent, while her mother was of Irish and German ancestry. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months; her family then moved to the United Kingdom where she lived until she was 11 years old. She lived for five years in Rosebery Gardens, Crouch End, London, and for 15 months in Albany Road, Stroud Green, London, so that her father could attend the London Film School. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School. When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities; she graduated in 1986. Along with other actors (notably Linda Thorson and John Barrowman) Anderson is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, Anderson was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwest accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location — for instance, in an interview with Jay Leno she spoke in an American accent, but shifted it for an interview with Michael Parkinson. Anderson was interested in marine biology, but began acting her freshman year in high school productions, and later in community theater, and served as a student intern at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts. She attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago (formerly the Goodman School of Drama), where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990. She also participated in the National Theatre of Great Britain's summer program at Cornell University. Anderson's brother died in 2011 of a brain tumor, at the age of 30. Anderson married her first husband, Clyde Klotz, The X-Files series assistant art director, on New Year's Day, 1994, in Hawaii in a Buddhist ceremony. They had a daughter, Piper Maru (born September 1994), for whom Chris Carter named the X-Files episode of the same name, and divorced in 1997.] In December 2004, Anderson married Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya. Anderson announced their separation on April 21, 2006. Anderson and former boyfriend, Mark Griffiths, have two sons: Oscar, born November 2006 and Felix, born October 2008. She ended their relationship in 2012. In March 2012, Anderson told Out magazine about her past relationship with a girl while in high school. In 1997, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Askmen listed her at No. 6 on their Top 7: '90s Sex Symbols. In 2008, she was listed 21st in FHM's All Time 100 Sexiest Hall of Fame.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1968-08-09
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 24.6
- 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
6.2
The House of Mirth
2000-09-23
7.2
The Mighty
1998-06-01
6.1
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008-10-02
5.3
Straightheads
2007-04-27
6.9
The Pale Blue Eye
2022-12-22
5
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
6.3
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
8.1
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
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
6.5
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
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
8.3
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
6.4
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
8.3
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
6.9
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
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009-07-16
6.6
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