| BIOGRAPHY
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. |
FILMOGRAPHY
• The House of Mirth (2000)
• Hellcab (1999)
• Playing By Heart (1999)
• Princess Mononoke (1999)
• Chicago Cab (1998)
• The Mighty (1998)
• The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
• The Turning (1992) |
