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Gillian Anderson Biography
Actor
Photos ( See all 31 )Gillian Anderson played agent Dana Scully on the sci-fi TV show The X-Files (1993-2002). The show was a cult hit, making stars of Anderson and her co-star David Duchovny. The ascendancy of The X-Files matched the mid-1990s boom in the Internet, and Gillian Anderson became one of the first popular Web pinups, along with Pamela Anderson of Baywatch and Teri Hatcher of Superman. Anderson moved into movies as well, starring in the feature film version of The X Files (1998) and the 2000 film of the Edith Wharton novel House of Mirth. In the years since she's been raising children, working for charities (especially in Africa) and making occasional film appearances and stage performances. Her films include Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006, starring Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy) and The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008, opposite Duchovny).
Other sci-fi personalities: Scott Bakula of Quantum Leap, Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame, and Hal 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Blog posts mentioning Gillian Anderson:
Four Good Links
The Official Gillian Anderson Website
Loaded with career news, galleries and personal notes
Gillian Anderson Gallery
A fan provides many photos from a variety of sources
Gillian Anderson Bares All
Emotionally, they mean, in this piece on her being in A Doll's House
Gillian Anderson Interview
From 2008, with The A.V. Club
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Best Known As
Alien-hunting heartthrob on The X-Files



