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Gillian Anderson

American actress (born 1968)

  • Fame72.0
  • Momentum7.7
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    Born 1968
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Updated 2026-09-03

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.

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  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film
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72.0
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Momentum7.7
Historical39.7
Source confidence90.0
Completeness90.0
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