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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.
She was born in Chicago, but lived in London until she was 11 years old. Her family then moved 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 alienated in the surroundings of the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors, and was arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed.
She found an outlet for her creativity when she started acting in high school and community theatre productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.
Following some professional stage work, she "broke in" to 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, 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, including the starring role in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name. Since the end of production on the
The X-Files, she has performed in several stage productions, in addition to working on various film projects. As of February 2005, she is currently working on a BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House
and recently completed work on a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy; both are due to appear later in the year.
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EntertainmentThird pregnancy for X Files star
Actress Gillian Anderson is expecting her third child in the autum, her manager confirms.
Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:06:32 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleLiteratureX-Files 2 Wraps In Canada
Production wrapped on March 13 in Vancouver, Canada, on the as-yet-untitled X-Files sequel movie, with star David Duchovny telling reporters that the crew staged the unauthorized Web photos of Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) kissing, the Canadian National Post newspaper reported.
Published: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT - Source: Scifi.Com - Read the articleLiteratureAnderson Finds Scully Again
Gillian Anderson, who reprises the role of FBI agent Dana Scully in the upcoming sequel to The X-Files film, told SCI FI Wire that it took her a while to reacquaint herself with the character she last played in 2002, when the long-running Fox TV series went off the air.
Published: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT - Source: Scifi.Com - Read the article
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