Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson is an AmericanBritish film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the longrunning and widely popular series The XFiles, illfated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies film The House of Mirth , and Lady Dedlock in the successful BBC production of Charles Dickens Bleak House. Among other honours, Anderson has won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Anderson , a computer analyst, and Homer Edward Ed Anderson III, who owned a film postproduction company. She is of English, German, and Irish ancestry. Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Puerto Rico formonths, then to London, England. The family made the relocation so that her father could attend the London Film School. Anderson spent her childhood growing up in north Londons Crouch End and Harringay. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School. When Anderson wasyears old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. They continued to have a flat in London, where Anderson spent her summers. In Grand Rapids, she attended Fountain Elementary and then City HighMiddle School, a program for gifted students with an emphasis on the humanities.

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