Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files.[1]
Anderson has been a main cast member of The X-Files during its initial nine season run from 1993–2002, as well as the season ten and season eleven revivals in 2016 and 2018. She directed her first and only episode of The X-Files in 2000; the season 7 episode all things.
She also has the most appearances of any X-Files actor, starring in 211 of 218 episodes, after lead actor David Duchovny opted to reduce his role in season 8 and season 9.
Anderson's portrayal of Agent Dana Scully has been widely acclaimed, garnering her international recognition.
Personal life[]
She was married to Clyde Klotz from January 1, 1994 until 1997. They had a daughter together, Piper Maru, on September 25, 1994. The X-Files' creator, Chris Carter, was named Piper's godfather. In 2004, she married Julian Ozanne. They announced their separation on April 21, 2006. On November 1, 2006, Anderson and boyfriend Mark Griffiths welcomed a son named Oscar Griffiths and on October 15, 2008 welcomed another son named Felix Griffiths. In 2012, Anderson and Mark Griffiths ended their relationship.
Credits[]
+Season 1
- - Pilot (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Deep Throat (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Squeeze (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Conduit (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - The Jersey Devil (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Shadows (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Ghost in the Machine (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Ice (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Space (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Fallen Angel (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Eve (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Fire (1993) ... Dana Scully
- - Beyond the Sea (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Gender Bender (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Lazarus (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Young at Heart (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - E.B.E. (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Miracle Man (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Shapes (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Darkness Falls (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Tooms (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Born Again (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Roland (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - The Erlenmeyer Flask (1994) ... Dana Scully
+Season 2
- - Little Green Men (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - The Host (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Blood (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Sleepless (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Duane Barry (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Ascension (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - 3 (1994) ... Dana Scully(creditonly)
- - One Breath (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Firewalker (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Red Museum (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Excelsis Dei (1994) ... Dana Scully
- - Aubrey (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Irresistible (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Die Hand Die Verletzt (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Fresh Bones (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Colony (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - End Game (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Fearful Symmetry (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Død Kalm (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Humbug (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - The Căluşari (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - F. Emasculata (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Soft Light (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Our Town (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Anasazi (1995) ... Dana Scully
+Season 3
- - The Blessing Way (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Paper Clip (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - D.P.O. (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - The List (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - 2Shy (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - The Walk (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Oubliette (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Nisei (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - 731 (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - Revelations (1995) ... Dana Scully
- - War of the Coprophages (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Syzygy (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Grotesque (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Piper Maru (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Apocrypha (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Pusher (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Teso Dos Bichos (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Hell Money (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - José Chung's From Outer Space (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Avatar (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Quagmire (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Wetwired (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Talitha Cumi (1996) ... Dana Scully
+Season 4
- - Herrenvolk (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Home (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Teliko (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Unruhe (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - The Field Where I Died (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Sanguinarium (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996) ... Dana Scully (voice)
- - Tunguska (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Terma (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - Paper Hearts (1996) ... Dana Scully
- - El Mundo Gira (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Leonard Betts (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Never Again (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Memento Mori (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Kaddish (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Unrequited (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Tempus Fugit (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Max (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Synchrony (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Small Potatoes (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Zero Sum (1997) ... Dana Scully(creditonly)
- - Elegy (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Demons (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Gethsemane (1997) ... Dana Scully
+Season 5
- - Redux (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Redux II (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Unusual Suspects (1997) ... Dana Scully (credit only)
- - Detour (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - The Post-Modern Prometheus (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Christmas Carol (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Emily (1997) ... Dana Scully
- - Kitsunegari (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Schizogeny (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Chinga (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Kill Switch (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Bad Blood (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Patient X (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - The Red and the Black (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Travelers (1998) ... Dana Scully (credit only)
- - Mind's Eye (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - All Souls (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - The Pine Bluff Variant (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Folie à Deux (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - The End (1998) ... Dana Scully
+Season 6
- - The Beginning (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Drive (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Triangle (1998) ... Dana Scully/OSS Agent
- - Dreamland (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Dreamland II (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas (1998) ... Dana Scully
- - Terms of Endearment (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - The Rain King (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - S.R. 819 (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Tithonus (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Two Fathers (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - One Son (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Agua Mala (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Monday (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Arcadia (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Alpha (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Trevor (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Milagro (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - The Unnatural (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Three of a Kind (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Field Trip (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Biogenesis (1999) ... Dana Scully
+Season 7
- - The Sixth Extinction (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Hungry (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Millennium (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Rush (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - The Goldberg Variation (1999) ... Dana Scully
- - Orison (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Signs and Wonders (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Sein Und Zeit (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Closure (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - X-Cops (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - First Person Shooter (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Theef (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - En Ami (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Chimera (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - all things (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Brand X (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Hollywood A.D. (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Fight Club (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Je Souhaite (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Requiem (2000) ... Dana Scully
+Season 8
- - Within (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Without (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Patience (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Roadrunners (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Invocation (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Redrum (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Via Negativa (2000) ... Dana Scully
- - Surekill (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Salvage (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Badlaa (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - The Gift (2001) ... Dana Scully (credit only)
- - Medusa (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Per Manum (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - This is Not Happening (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - DeadAlive (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Three Words (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Empedocles (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Vienen (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Alone (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Essence (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Existence (2001) ... Dana Scully
+Season 9
- - Nothing Important Happened Today (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Nothing Important Happened Today II (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Dæmonicus (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - 4-D (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Lord of the Flies (2001) ... Dana Scully
- - Trust No 1 (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - John Doe (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Hellbound (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Provenance (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Providence (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Audrey Pauley (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Underneath (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Improbable (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Scary Monsters (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Jump the Shark (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - William (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Release (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - Sunshine Days (2002) ... Dana Scully
- - The Truth (2002) ... Dana Scully
+Season 10
- - My Struggle (2015) ... Dana Scully
- - Founder's Mutation (2016) ... Dana Scully
- - Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster (2016) ... Dana Scully
- - Home Again (2016) ... Dana Scully
- - Babylon (2016) ... Dana Scully
- - My Struggle II (2016) ... Dana Scully
+Season 11
- - My Struggle III (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - This (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - Plus One (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - Ghouli (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - Kitten (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - Rm9sbG93ZXJz (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - Familiar (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - Nothing Lasts Forever (2018) ... Dana Scully
- - My Struggle IV (2018) ... Dana Scully
Outside The X-Files[]
She guest starred as the voice of "Data Nully" (a parody of her X-Files character) in an episode of the animated series ReBoot. Her then husband Clyde Klotz was a production designer for Rainmaker Studios (then known as Mainframe Entertainment), which produced the series.
She was given "special thanks" from the production of the Don Quixote-inspired film Tilt, which starred Tom Braidwood and C. Ernst Harth.
She recently starred in the popular BBC series Bleak House and was nominated for a BAFTA and an Emmy Award for the role. She has also appeared in numerous films, including The Last King of Scotland and Johnny English Reborn.
Writer/Director Credits[]
References[]
External links[]
- Gillian Anderson at the Internet Movie Database
- Gillian Anderson on Wikipedia
- Gillian Anderson at TriviaTribute.com
- Gillian Anderson Official website
- Gillian Anderson on X (formerly Twitter)
- gilliana's official account on Instagram