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Gillian Anderson
Occupation : Actress
Birth Date : August 9, 1968
Birth Place : Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name : Gillian Leigh Anderson
Nationality : American
Height : 5' 3''
Sex : F
Education : City High School in Grand Rapids, MI
National Theatre of Great Britain at Cornell University in New York
Goodman Theater School of Drama, DePaul University in Chicago, IL (majored in Theater; BFA)
Relationship : Rodney Rowland (actor; born on February 20, 1964; 1997-1998) , Julian Ozanne (documentary filmmaker; born in 1963; married on December 29, 2004 on Lamu's Shella Island; separated on April 2006), ErrolClyde Klotz (art director; Canadian; born in 1961; married on January 1, 1994; divorced in 1997)
Father : Edward (film post-production company manager)
Mother : Rosemary (computer analyst)
Sister : Zoe (younger)
Brother : Aaron (younger)
Daughter : Piper Maru (born on August 25, 1994 in Vancouver, British Columbia; father: Errol Clyde Klotz)
Claim to fame : As FBI Agent, Dana Katherine Scully on TV Series: The X-Files (1993)
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.
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