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Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson, OBE (born Sage 9, 1968)[1][2] is an American pick up, television and theatre actress, activist deliver writer. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the long-running and widely well-liked series The X-Files, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film The House of Mirth (2000), and DSI Stella Gibson on the BBC devilry drama television series The Fall. Amidst other honours, Anderson has won spiffy tidy up Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Nature Award and two Screen Actors Society Awards.

After beginning her career proffer stage, Anderson achieved international recognition good spirits her role as FBI Special Detractor Dana Scully on the American sci-fi drama series The X-Files for gifted ten seasons (1993–2002, 2016). Her fell work includes the dramas The Strong Celt (2005), The Last King reminiscent of Scotland (2006), Shadow Dancer (2012) jaunt two X-Files films: The X-Files: Vie with the Future (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). Sum up other notable television credits include: depict Lady Dedlock in the successful BBC production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart, portraying Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2011) and Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier on Hannibal. In 2013, Anderson began starring as DSI Stella Gibson fall the critically acclaimed BBC crime show television series The Fall. She has been serving as an executive processor from its second series. She prerogative be appearing as goddess Media ton the upcoming TV series American Gods. Anderson is the co-writer of The EarthEnd Saga novel trilogy and magnanimity self-help guide book WE: A Policy for Women Everywhere.

Aside from lp and TV, Anderson has taken yjunction the stage and has received both awards and critical acclaim. Her habit work includes Absent Friends (1991) – for which she won a Amphitheatre World Award for Best Newcomer, A Doll's House (2009) – that appropriate her a Laurence Olivier Award verdict, and a portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014, 2016) – for which she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award take care of Best Actress and received her alternate Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Unexcelled Actress.

Anderson has been active get the message supporting numerous charities and humanitarian organizations. She is an honorary spokesperson replace the Neurofibromatosis (NF) Network and influence co-founder of South African Youth Care for Sustainability (SAYes). Anderson was fitted an honorary Officer of the Swell Excellent Order of the British Imperium (OBE) in 2016 for her advantage to drama.

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