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Gillian Anderson
Born 9 August 1968 57 years old Chicago, Illinois, USA Who else is 57? → IMDb ↗ · TMDB ↗
Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and activist. She is best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the sci-fi series The X-Files (1993–2002; 2016–2018), Lily Bart in the drama film The House of Mirth (2000), DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama series The Fall (2013–2016), Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023), and Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of the Netflix drama series The Crown (2020). She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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17age in their first credit on record (1986)
40years on screen and counting
5credits in 2025, their busiest year
65dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Animals
The Julia Set
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The Turning Door
as (voice)
Age: 57 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026as Billy Presley
Age: 57 TRON: Ares
2025as Elisabeth Dillinger
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Age: 57 Tron: Ares - A Special Look
2025as Elisabeth Dillinger
Age: 56 The Salt Path
2025as Raynor Winn
Age: 55 Woolf Works
2024
Age: 55 Scoop
2024as Emily Maitlis
Age: 55 White Bird
2023as Vivienne Beaumier
Age: 54 The Pale Blue Eye
2022as Julia Marquis
Age: 53 Robin Robin
2021as Cat (voice)
Age: 51 The Sunlit Night
2020as Olyana
Age: 50 National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019as Margo Channing
Age: 50 UFO
2018as Dr. Hendricks
Age: 49 The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018as Wendy
Age: 49 Crooked House
2017as Magda Leonides
Age: 48 Viceroy's House
2017as Edwina Mountbatten
Age: 48 Woolf Works
2017as Voiceover from a letter by Virginia Woolf (voice)
Age: 47 Sold
2016as Sophia
Age: 46 Robot Overlords
2015as Kate
Age: 46 The Departure
2014as Blanche DuBois
Age: 46 National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014as Blanche DuBois
Age: 45 Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013as Karen Morgan
Age: 44 I'll Follow You Down
2013as Marika Whyte
Age: 44 Room on the Broom
2012as Witch (voice)
Age: 43 Sister
2012as Kristin Jansen
Age: 43 Shadow Dancer
2012as Kate Fletcher
Age: 43 Johnny English Reborn
2011as Pamela
Age: 41 Boogie Woogie
2010as Jean Maclestone
Age: 40 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008as Eleanor Johnson
Age: 39 The X-Files: I Want to Believe
2008as Dana Scully
Age: 39 Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind
2007as Queen Vorkana (voice)
Age: 38 Straightheads
2007as Alice
Age: 38 The Last King of Scotland
2006as Sarah Merrit
Age: 36 A Cock and Bull Story
2005as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
Age: 36 The Mighty Celt
2005as Kate
Age: 32 The House of Mirth
2000as Lily Bart
Age: 30 Playing by Heart
1998as Meredith
Age: 30 Chicago Cab
1998as Southside Girl
Age: 29 The X-Files
1998as Agent Dana Scully
Age: 29 The Mighty
1998as Loretta Lee
Age: 29 Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998as Dana Scully / Self
Age: 23 The Turning
1992as April Cavanaugh
Age: 19 A Matter of Choice
1988as Woman
Age: 17 Three at Once
1986as Woman 1
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TV credits
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The Boys from Brazil
as Frieda Steiner
Age: 57 The Abandons
2025as Constance Van Ness
Age: 57 Trespasses
2025as Gina
Age: 53 The First Lady
2022as Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 50 Sex Education
2019as Jean Milburn
Age: 48 American Gods
2017as Media
Age: 48 The Crown
2016as Margaret Thatcher
Age: 47 War and Peace
2016as Anna Pavlovna Scherer
Age: 45 Crisis
2014as Meg Fitch
Age: 44 The Fall
2013as Stella Gibson
Age: 44 Hannibal
2013as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
Age: 43 Great Expectations
2011as Miss Havisham
Age: 42 Moby Dick
2011as Elizabeth
Age: 42 The Crimson Petal and the White
2011as Mrs. Castaway
Age: 42 Any Human Heart
2010as Duchess Of Windsor
Age: 37 Bleak House
2005as Lady Dedlock
Age: 31 Harsh Realm
1999as Video Narrator (uncredited)
Age: 26 ReBoot
1994as Data Nully (voice)
Age: 25 Frasier
1993as Jenny (voice)
Age: 25 The X-Files
1993as Dana Scully
Age: 24 Class of '96
1993as Rachel
Age: 24 Eek! The Cat
1992as Dana Scully (voice)
Age: 21 The Simpsons
1989as Dana Scully (voice)