MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive Producer , Producer more
Birth name Gillian Leigh Anderson
American nationality
Birth August 9, 1968 (Chicago – Illinois, United States)
BIOGRAPHY
At the age of 2, Gillian Anderson arrived in London with her parents from Michigan. She spent her primary education at Coleridge Primary School in Crouch End in the north of the English capital. Eleven years later, the actress returned to live with her loved ones in Michigan and saw her family grow with the births of a little brother and a little sister. A student at City High School in Grand Rapids, Gillian auditions for a role in a school play. The passion she discovers for comedy sweeps away her original ambitions: to become a marine biologist or an archaeologist.
After high school in 1986, Gillian chose to attend DePaul University in Chicago, specializing in theater. At 22, with solid theater training and a fine arts degree, she set out to conquer New York to become an actress in her own right.
In 1990, she landed her first major role in the Broadway play Absent Friends and her performance earned her a Theater World Award. At the same time, she participated in the play The Philanthropist . Nevertheless, Anderson chose to leave New York for Los Angeles, with the hope of finding a place in the 7th art. Disillusionment is there. At the end of 1992, she only got a brief role in the feature film The Turning which ended in a huge flop. Certainly, she is not discouraged and thinks she will find salvation in television.
After a brief stint on a television show called Promo 96 , she auditioned for the role of Agent Dana Scully, a key character in the upcoming Fox series… X-Files . She is retained and the carpet of consecration is then rolled out under her feet! The duo she formed with David Duchovny worked wonderfully and the series became cult all over the world. This golden role earned him a slew of awards: two Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1996 and 1997, an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1997! The X-Files ended in 2002 after 9 seasons. Between the 6th and 7th seasons, the actress filmed The X Files, the film , a feature film adapted from the series. She made a second foray into cinema in 1998, starring alongside Sharon Stone in Peter Chelsom ‘s drama The Powerful . Following the paranormal adventure, Gillian Anderson made a series of films: in 2001 Among the Happy People of the World , in 2005 Bloody Hunt and The Mighty Celt ,
and Filming in an English Garden and in 2007 The Last King of Scotland by Kevin McDonald … Unrecognizable, she also participated in 2005 in the British series Bleak House . 2008 marks the long-awaited return of the famous duo from the X-Files series with the feature film X Files – Regeneration , directed by Chris Carter .
The unforgettable interpreter of special agent Dana Scully then returned to the small window by starring in the TV series Any Human Heart , Great Expectations and The Fall . The actress returned to cinema in 2011 in a lighter register. Indeed, we find her in the crazy comedy Johnny English, the return alongside the very popular British actor Rowan Atkinson . The actress remained in England in 2012 to film under the direction of James Marsh in the thriller Shadow Dancer . Anderson opposite Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough .