# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gillian-anderson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:52.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gillian-anderson"
name: "Gillian Anderson"
slug: "gillian-anderson"
description: "Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. She received international fame for starring as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the Fox science fiction mystery series The X-Files, winning a Golden Globe Award for the role. Her other credits include socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall (2013–2016), sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education (2019–2023), and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown (2020), for which she earned her second Golden Globe."
tagline: "American actress (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gillian_Anderson_Cannes_Film_Festival_2026_02_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           39.706404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "GillianA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump