Gillian Anderson

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 scifi series The XFiles 19932002 20162018 Lily Bart in the drama film The House of Mirth 2000 DSI Stella Gibson in the BBCRTÉ crime drama series The Fall 20132016 Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedydrama series Sex Education 20192023 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 XFiles Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt 2005 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Shadow Dancer 2012 and Viceroys House 2017 as well as the XFiles 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 20132015 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 Dolls 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 cofounder 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia