Biography
Gillian Anderson
Acting
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 d…
Career works
109
Movies
62
Series
47
Career average
6.5/10
Birth date
08/09/1968
Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography highlights
Movies
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026 · 10.0
The Salt Path Scandal
2025 · 2.0
TRON: Ares
2025 · 6.5
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Tron: Ares - A Special Look
2025
The Salt Path
2025 · 6.7
Woolf Works
2024
Scoop
2024 · 6.3
White Bird
2023 · 7.8
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · 6.8
Robin Robin
2021 · 7.0
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021 · 8.0
The Sunlit Night
2020 · 5.4
This Changes Everything
2019 · 6.2
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019 · 8.5
UFO
2018 · 6.9
Series
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
2026 · 6.0
The Abandons
2025 · 5.8
Trespasses
2025 · 6.5
The First Lady
2022 · 5.7
The Savoy
2020 · 7.9
Sex Education
2019 · 8.2
American Gods
2017 · 7.1
The Crown
2016 · 8.2
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 · 1.0
War and Peace
2016 · 7.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · 6.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · 5.1
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · 4.2
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2014 · 6.7
Crisis
2014 · 6.4