Gillian Anderson

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Image:Danascully.jpg Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, best known for her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files and her role as Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House.

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Early life

She was born in Chicago to Edward and Rosemary Anderson, who were both of English and Irish descent; soon after her birth her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London. When she was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities. With her English accent and background, she felt out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. Anderson, mocked because of her British accent, soon developed a Midwest dialect. In addition, she had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, and dyed her hair various colors.

She found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.

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Career

Following some professional stage work, she "broke into" television. In 1993, she had a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of '96 on the fledgling Fox Network, and auditioned for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. There she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz [1], whom she married and with whom she had a daughter, Piper Maru, in 1994. (An alien-abduction storyline explained her brief absence from the series for delivery.) Anderson and Klotz later divorced. She had roles in a handful of films during the run of The X-Files and starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name.

Since The X-Files ended, she has performed in several stage productions and worked on various film projects. She has also done narrative work for documentaries on scientific topics, in which the voice listeners recognize as "Agent Scully" lends an air of credible authority to the material. In 2005 she appeared as Lady Dedlock in a BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, had a starring role in the Irish film The Mighty Celt (for which she won an IFTA award for Best International Actress) and performed in a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy, released in January 2006.

Also of note was her role in the English release of Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, where she played the voice of Moro. Anderson is a proclaimed lover of Miyazaki's work.

In 2006, she was nominated for the prestigious BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and won the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio award for Best Actress for her role in Bleak House.

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Private life

In December 2004, Anderson married longtime partner Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu's island of Shella, off the coast of Africa.

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Other TV appearances

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Filmography

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List of stage appearances

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Trivia

  • The X-Files episode "Piper Maru" is named after her child, Piper.
  • X-Files director, creator, writer and actor Chris Carter is godfather to her child.
  • Her favourite X-Files episodes are "Triangle" and "Bad Blood".
  • Wrote and directed the X-Files episode "All Things".
  • Her eyes are blue-green, and her original hair color is ash-blonde.
  • Tattoos include a Tahitian tribal symbol on the inside of her right ankle, the words "every day" in Sanskrit on her right wrist, and a "P" on her left hip (presumably for daughter Piper)
  • Is allergic to cats, as stated in an X-Files commentary.
  • Had a nose piercing in her younger years; the remnants of the hole are still visible in some photographs.
  • Compiled a collection of Electronica music inspired by Future Fantastic, entitled Future: A Journey Through The Electronic Underground. Contributed vocals to one track, Extremis, with music by HAL.
  • Provided the voice for the ship's computer in the 1996 videogame Hellbender by Terminal Reality and Microsoft.
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