Gillian Anderson

Acting

Born 1968-08-09 Chicago, Illinois, USA 109 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1

Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won · 4 nominated

2006 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Bleak House
1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1998 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1997 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won The X-Files
1996 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files

Golden Globe Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

1998 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files
1997 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files
1996 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won The X-Files
1995 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files

BAFTA Awards 2 nominated

2011 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Any Human Heart
2006 Best Actress Nominated Bleak House

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 won · 7 nominated

2001 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
2000 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1999 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1999 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1998 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1998 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1997 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated The X-Files
1997 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Won The X-Files
1996 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Won The X-Files

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama 4 nominated

2001 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files
1999 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files
1998 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files
1997 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated The X-Files

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film 2 nominated

2012 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Great Expectations
2006 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Bleak House

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 won

— Best Actress Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

2018 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

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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 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-Files 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 (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.