August 9: Happy Birthday Gillian Anderson

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Gillian Anderson is celebrating her 49th birthday today. She studied theater at DePaul University and then moved to New York, where she pursued a classic career path for aspiring actresses—waitressing. Her acting debut came in Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, and brought her a Theatre World Award. She had added only a couple of other roles to her resume when she was cast as an FBI agent on a new series that made its debut on Fox in the fall of 1993.


Anderson received multiple nominations for Emmys and Golden Globes as Dana Scully on The X-Files, and won one of each. She starred on the show’s nine-season run from 1993-2002, in a pair of feature films, and in a short 10th season that aired in early 2016 (a 10-episode eleventh season is upcoming). She became one of the first big stars on the internet age, and her character had a social phenomenon, the “Scully Effect,” named for her.

As I noted in last year’s article, Anderson has kept very active in the years since The X-Files ended its original run. Along with a variety of feature films, she has had television roles such as the lead role of Stella Gibson on the British crime drama The Fall, a recurring part on Hannibal, and most recently the Goddess Media on American Gods. She has had an active London stage career, receiving Olivier Award nominations for Best Actress for two high-powered roles, Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.