Gillian Anderson
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
When actress Gillian Anderson landed the role of Agent Scully for the Fox television series X-Files (1993- ) she could not have foreseen that within two years she would become an internationally known cult phenomenon. She was born in Chicago, but moved to London at age two and remained there until she was in her early teens. She and her family then moved to Grand Rapids, MI, where she rebelliously got heavily into the punk rock scene complete with spiky, brilliantly colored hair and body piercings with safety pins. When she was 14, she became romantically involved with a 20-year-old punk singer and occasionally sang in his band. Her punk period lasted through high school. Following graduation, she got involved in local theater and from there studied fine arts at the Goodman Theater School of Drama at Chicago's DePaul University. Following graduation, she moved to New York where she waited tables and appeared in off-Broadway plays, most notably in Absent Friends, in which she had a starring role that won her a Theater World Award. Anderson made her film debut in 1992 with the low-budget drama The Turning. She then appeared in a theatrical production of The Philanthropist and after that moved to Los Angeles. Though she was frequently courted for television roles, Anderson disdained the medium until the X-Files audition came along. Though the producers were looking for a brainy version of a Baywatch girl, the beautiful but more natural looking (having long passed her outrageous days) Anderson got the role thanks to the insistence of the show's creator Chris Carter. The show became a smash hit within two seasons and Anderson found herself an international star, as did her co-star David Duchovny, the subject of numerous pages on the Internet, and the recipient of such awards as a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In addition to continuing work on the X-Files, Anderson hosted a couple of television specials, including More Secrets of the X-Files and the BBC documentary series Future Fantastic. She also lent her voice as a documentary narrator on Spies Above and as animated characters on shows like The Simpsons and Reboot and films like the English version of Princess Mononoke.Anderson would spend the next several years working extensively in British television, starring in series like Bleak House, Any Human Heart, Moby Dick, and The Fall, as well as appearing in numerous UK films, like The Last King of Scotland and Shadow Dancer.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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88% | This Changes Everything |
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— | 2019 |
33% | The Sunlit Night |
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— | 2019 |
49% | The Spy Who Dumped Me |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | L'espion qui m'a dompée |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | UFO |
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— | 2018 |
57% | Crooked House |
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— | 2017 |
72% | Viceroy's House |
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$1.1M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Andorra |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Exhibition on Screen: The Artist's Garden - American Impressionism |
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— | 2017 |
56% | Sold |
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— | 2016 |
61% | Robot Overlords |
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— | 2015 |
100% | The Widowmaker |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire |
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— | 2014 |
33% | I'll Follow You Down |
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— | 2014 |
31% | Last Love |
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— | 2013 |
84% | Shadow Dancer |
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$99.6k | 2013 |
86% | From Up On Poppy Hill |
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$0.7M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | La Sorciere Dans Les Airs |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Widowmaker |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Room on the Broom |
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— | 2012 |
38% | Johnny English Reborn |
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$8.3M | 2011 |
33% | Boogie Woogie |
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— | 2010 |
32% | The X-Files: I Want to Believe (The X Files 2) |
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$20.9M | 2008 |
36% | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People |
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$2.5M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Masterpiece Classic |
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— | 2008 |
40% | Straightheads (Closure) |
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— | 2007 |
87% | The Last King of Scotland |
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$17.5M | 2006 |
88% | Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story |
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$1.2M | 2005 |
67% | The Mighty Celt |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening |
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— | 2002 |
82% | The House of Mirth |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Paul McCartney & Friends: The PETA Concert for Party Animals |
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— | 2000 |
93% | Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) |
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— | 1999 |
60% | Playing by Heart |
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— | 1998 |
75% | The Mighty |
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— | 1998 |
66% | The X-Files - Fight the Future |
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— | 1998 |
56% | Chicago Cab |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Hellcab |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Closure |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The X-Files: The Unopened File |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Turning |
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— | 1992 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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74% |
American Gods
2017
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94% |
Sex Education
2019-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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74% |
The X-Files
1993-2018
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No Score Yet |
CBS This Morning
2012
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No Score Yet |
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2017
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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88% |
War & Peace
2016
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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84% |
The Fall
2013-2016
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
American Masters
2001
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50% |
Any Human Heart
2010
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92% |
Hannibal
2013-2015
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61% |
Crisis
2014
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No Score Yet |
Last Call With Carson Daly
2007-2019
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Great Expectations
2011
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No Score Yet |
Masterpiece
1971-2014
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No Score Yet |
Moby Dick
2011
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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No Score Yet |
Bleak House
2005
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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No Score Yet |
Top Gear
2002
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No Score Yet |
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011
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90% |
The Crown
2016-2020
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Quotes from Gillian Anderson's Characters
Johnny English: | Pegasus, we have another lead! Vortex was in Mozambique. They were responsible for the death of President Chambal. |
Pamela Thornton: | No! You were responsible for the death of President Chambal. |
Pamela: | You lose our only lead on Vortex, humiliate me in front of the Foreign Secretary, and try to kill my mother. |
Pegasus' Mother: | Twice! |
Dana Scully: | Ugh, scratchy beard! |
Dana Scully: | What are you doing? |
Fox Mulder: | Trying to ignore you. |
Pamela: | "English..." |
Pamela: | English... |