Gillian Leigh
Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden
Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her
roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series
The X-Files and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak
House.
Early life: Anderson was born in Chicago to
Edward and Rosemary Anderson. Soon after her birth, her
family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then
to Crouch End in London so her father could attend the
London Film School. When Anderson was eleven, her family
moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where
she attended Fountain Elementary and then City
Middle/High School, a program for gifted students with a
strong emphasis on the humanities; she graduated in
1986. With her English accent and background, she felt
out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a
reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager.
Anderson, mocked because of her British accent, soon
developed a Midwest dialect. In addition, she had her
nose pierced in the early 1980s, and dyed her hair
various colors.
She found an outlet for her talents when she began
acting in high school and community theater productions.
She had wanted to be a marine biologist, but at 17 after
a couple of auditions for the Grand Rapids Community
Theater, she gained a few roles and never looked back.
She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul
University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in 1990, and a few summer schools with the
National Theatre of Great Britain at Cornell University
in Ithaca, New York.
Career: Anderson moved to New York when she was
twenty-two, and started her career in Alan Ayckbourn's
play Absent Friends at the Manhattan Theatre Club where
she played alongside Brenda Blethyn. For this role she
won a 1990-91 Theatre World "Newcomer" Award.
Her next theatrical role was in Christopher Hampton's
The Philanthropist at the Long Wharf Theatre in New
Haven, CT. To support herself when she started out, she
worked as a waitress.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1992, spending a year
auditioning. Although she had once vowed she would never
do TV, being out of work for a year changed her mind.
Anderson did Home Fires Burning for a cable station as
well as the audio book version of Exit to Eden. She
broke into mainstream television in 1993, with a guest
appearance on the collegiate drama Class of '96 on the
fledgling Fox Network.
As a result of her guest appearance in Class of 96,
Anderson was sent the script for The X Files at the age
of 24. She decided to audition because "for the
first time in a long time the script involved a strong,
independent intelligent woman as a lead character."
Producer Chris Carter wanted to employ her, but FOX
wanted someone with previous TV exposure who was more
"bimbo-like". Fox sent in more actresses, but
Carter stood by Anderson, and she was cast as Special
Agent Dana Scully. She got the part assuming it would
run for thirteen episodes, the standard minimum order
for American TV networks. Filmed in Vancouver, the
series eventually ran for nine seasons, and included one
film. During her time on The X Files, Anderson won
several awards for her portrayal of Agent Scully,
including an Emmy Award, Golden Globe, and two SAG
awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series. While filming
she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz, whom she
married. 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 2005, she appeared as Lady Dedlock
in the BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens'
novel Bleak House, had a starring role in the Irish film
The Mighty Celt (for which she won an IFTA award for
Best International Actress) and performed in A Cock and
Bull Story, a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy.
In 1999, Anderson had a supporting role in the English
release of Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, where she
voiced the character of Moro. Anderson is a proclaimed
lover of Miyazaki's work. She also took part in Eve
Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
In 2006, she was nominated for a British Academy
Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress and won the
Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Award for
Best Actress for her role in Bleak House. However, her
co-star in Bleak House, Anna Maxwell Martin, walked away
with the BAFTA. Anderson also received an Emmy
nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries
or Movie for her performance as Lady Dedlock. She was
also nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for her
performance in Bleak House and came in second place in
the best actress category of the 2005 BBC Drama website
poll for her performance as Lady Dedlock. (Billie Piper
won, and Anna Maxwell Martin came in third.) She was
also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for
her role in Bleak House.
Anderson recently appeared in two British films; in
2006, The Last King of Scotland and in 2007,
Straightheads.
When actress Gillian Anderson landed the role of Agent
Scully for the Fox television series X-Files (1993- )
she could not have foreseen that within two years she
would become an internationally known cult phenomenon.
She was born in Chicago, but moved to London at age two
and remained there until she was in her early teens. She
and her family then moved to Grand Rapids, MI, where she
rebelliously got heavily into the punk rock scene
complete with spiky, brilliantly colored hair and body
piercings with safety pins.
When she was 14, she became romantically involved with a
20-year-old punk singer and occasionally sang in his
band. Her punk period lasted through high school.
Following graduation, she got involved in local theater
and from there studied fine arts at the Goodman Theater
School of Drama at Chicago's DePaul University.
Following graduation, she moved to New York where she
waited tables and appeared in off-Broadway plays, most
notably in Absent Friends, in which she had a starring
role that won her a Theater World Award.
Anderson made her film debut in 1992 with the low-budget
drama The Turning. She then appeared in a theatrical
production of The Philanthropist and after that moved to
Los Angeles. Though she was frequently courted for
television roles, Anderson disdained the medium until
the X-Files audition came along.
Though the producers were looking for a brainy version
of a Baywatch girl, the beautiful but more natural
looking (having long passed her outrageous days)
Anderson got the role thanks to the insistence of the
show's creator Chris Carter.
The show became a smash hit within two seasons and
Anderson found herself an international star, as did her
co-star David Duchovny, the subject of numerous pages on
the Internet, and the recipient of such awards as a
Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In addition to continuing work on the X-Files, Anderson
hosted a couple of television specials, including More
Secrets of the X-Files and the BBC documentary series
Future Fantastic. She also lent her voice as a
documentary narrator on Spies Above and as a guest
character on the television series The Simpsons and
Reboot.
Personal life: As a teenager, Anderson has been
said to have dyed her hair purple and, in her mid-teens,
dated a twenty-year-old musician.
On New Year's Day 1994, Anderson married Clyde Klotz,
the The X-Files series assistant art director, on the
17th hole of a golf course in Hawaii in a Buddhist
ceremony. A few months later came the news that she was
pregnant, and Chris Carter created an alien abduction
storyline that kept Anderson off-camera long enough for
labor, delivery, and a 10-day maternity leave. Daughter
Piper Maru was born by caesarean section on September
25, 1994, Vancouver, Canada - Chris Carter was named her
godfather.
The X-Files finished its ninth and final season in May
2002, marking the end of a major period in her life -
she started the show when she was 24, and finished it
when she was 34. Her marriage ended and she moved to
London. From November 2002 through February 9, 2003, she
starred in the Michael Weller play What the Night is For
in London's West End.
In December 2004, Anderson married Julian Ozanne, a
documentary filmmaker, in the village of Shella on Lamu,
an island off the coast of Kenya. Anderson and Ozanne
announced their separation on 21 April 2006, after 16
months of marriage. On November 1, 2006, Anderson and
boyfriend Mark Griffiths welcomed a son named Oscar.
Anderson provides philanthropic and charitable
assistance in the support of finding a cure for
neurofibromatosis. She serves as NF, Inc.'s Honorary
Spokesperson and is a Patron of the Neurofibromatosis
Association (based in the UK). Her support stems from
her brother being diagnosed with NF-1.
Anderson is a member of the board of directors for
Artists for a New South Africa. Anderson is a supporter
of animal rights and an active member of PETA.
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