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Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an
United States|American Actor|actress, best known
for her role as FBI Dana Scully|Agent Dana Scully
in the American television|TV series The X-Files.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois|Chicago but soon
after her birth her family moved to Puerto Rico
for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in
London. When she was eleven, her family moved
again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where
she attended City Middle/High School, a program
for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the
humanities. With her English accent and
background, she felt out of place in the Midwest
(United States)|American Midwest, and developed a
reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious
teenager. She had her nose body piercing|pierced
in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors,
and was once arrested for gluing the locks of the
school closed.

She found an outlet for her talents when she began
acting in high school and community theater
productions.  She attended Goodman Theater School
of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where
she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.

Following some professional stage work, she "broke
into" television.  In 1993, she had a guest
appearance on the collegiate drama Class of '96 on
the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox
Network, and auditioned for the role of Dana
Scully on The X-Files.  There she met assistant
art director Clyde Klotz, whom she married and
with whom she had a daughter, Piper Maru, in 1994.
 (An alien-abduction storyline explained her brief
absence from the series for delivery.)  Anderson
and Klotz later divorced.  She had roles in a
handful of films during the run of The X-Files and
starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of
the Edith Wharton novel of the same name. Since
The X-Files ended, she has performed in several
stage productions and worked on various film
projects. She has also done narrative work for
documentaries on scientific topics, in which the
voice listeners recognize as "Agent Scully" lends
an air of credible authority to the material. As
of 2005|As of February 2005, she is currently
working on a BBC television adaptation of Charles
Dickens' novel Bleak House and she recently
completed work on a film version of the novel
Tristram Shandy. Both are due to appear later in
the year. In December 2004, Anderson married
longtime partner Julian Ozanne, a documentary
filmmaker, on Lamu's island of Shella, off the
coast of Africa.  

==Filmography==

*The Last King of Scotland (Filming; to be
released 2006), as "Sara Zach"
*Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (Announced -
unknown release date)
*A Cock and Bull Story -or- Tristram Shandy
(2005), as "Lady Honoria Dedlock"
*The Mighty Celt (2005), as "Kate"
*The House of Mirth (2000), as "Lily Bart"
*Mononoke Hime (1997), aka Princess Mononoke
(English language version, 1999), voice, as "Moro"
*Playing by Heart (1998), as "Meredith"
*The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998), as "Dana
Scully"
*The Mighty (1998), as "Loretta Lee"
*Chicago Cab, aka Hellcab (1998), as "Southside
Girl" (or "Brenda")
*The Turning (1992), as "April Cavanaugh"
*A Matter of Choice (1988), B&W student production
*Three at Once (1986), B&W student production, as
"Woman 1"

==List of Stage Appearances==

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* The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (2004). World
premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane
Square, London.
* What The Night Is For (2002-11-07 to
2003-02-09). This play ran at the Comedy Theatre
in London, and was Anderson's West End debut.
*The Vagina Monologues (1999)-(2000)
* The Philanthropist (1992). 
* Absent Friends (1991). Long Wharf Theater.  Won
a Theatre World Award for Best Performance.
* A Zoo Story (1986)
* Arsenic and Old Lace (play)|Arsenic and Old Lace
(1983).  City High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
two performances, as "Officer Brophy".
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==Trivia==
*There exist over 180 fake nude and pornographic
images of her; only one of which (a nipple-slip at
an awards ceremony) has been proven genuine. She
has been quoted as saying she doesn't mind: "It's
just people getting their rocks off."
*Performed nude alongside co-star David Duchovny
in the X-Files episode "One Son".
*The X-Files episode "Piper Maru" is named after
her child, Piper.
*X-Files director, creator, writer and actor Chris
Carter (screenwriter)|Chris Carter is godfather to
her child.
*Her favourite X-Files episode is "Triangle".
* She wrote and directed the X-Files episode "All
Things"
* Her eyes are blue-green, and her original hair
color is ash-blonde.
* Favourite movie is said to be "Wallace and
Grommitt: The Wrong Trousers"
* Tattoos include a tribal symbol on the inside of
her right ankle, the words "every day" in Sanskrit
on her right wrist, and a "P" on her left hip
(presumably for daughter Piper)

==External links==
*http://gilliananderson.ws/ Official website
*imdb name|id=0000096|name=Gillian Anderson
*voice actor|id=4109|name=Gillian Anderson
*http://gillian-anderson.net/ Gillian-Anderson.Net
*http://anderson-avenue.com/ Anderson Avenue
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