Gillian Anderson

Attractive red-haired Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television, and theatre actress.

The full name of the famous XFiles star is Gillian Leigh Anderson . She was born in 1968 in Chicago, IL, in the family of Ed and Rosemary Anderson .She is one of their three children.

Her life is interesting, full of travels. She lived in Puerto Rico , then in London. Being 11, her family moves to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she finishes primary school, and then high school. Later, Gillian goes to Chicago, where she enrols in a college. After acquiring BFA, she moves to New York, N.Y., featuring in several theatre plays, doing the same a year later in L.A. role in the little-seen feature "The Turning" (1992) and a guest spot on the Fox drama series "Class of '96" (1993) preceded her landing the star-making role of FBI agent and forensics expert Dr. Dana Scully on Fox's successful paranormal crime drama, "The X-Files" (1993-2002). Beforegetting the role of Dana Scully, she lives in Vancouver, Canada , where Gillian currently resides in with her husband and daughter.

In 1986, Gillian moves again - to Chicago, where after graduating from the college she attends Goodman Theater School at DePaul University (a major theatre conservatory).Besides the university she visits the National Theater of Great Britain at Cornell Universityin Ithaca, N.Y. as well.

While 17, Gillian had the dream to become a marine biologist. But after realizing the opportunities that theatre presents, she embarks on the acting path.

While studying Bachelor of Fine Arts at DePaul University, she stars in ''The Turning'' in 1988. Her next move is to NY, where a serious theatre career follows: she plays in off-Broadway production of Alan Ayckbourne's ''Absent Friends'' and wins Theater World award in 1991. While changing places again - from one state to another, from a casting to another, from a stage to a stage, she manages to impress the public through her performance in ''Class of '96''.Despite being episodic, her role is memorable and makes a stong impressions on the audience. Thanks to this, she gets the role of Dana Scully immediately in the fantastic series X

In fact, Anderson found the vehicle that proved she could carry a film when she undertook the role of Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth" (2000). Although funded by Showtime, the feature received rapturous reviews when it played at various film festivals and was slated for a theatrical release in 2000. As the frivolous Wharton heroine under the direction of Terence Davies, Anderson delivered a beautifully nuanced performance that sparked talk of end-of-year award consideration, but somehow her brilliant performance went overlooked.