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American actress (born 1968)

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Gillian Leigh Anderson (born 9 August 1968) is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film The House of Mirth, Lady Dedlock in the successful BBC production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC crime drama television series The Fall.

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Birth Name: Gillian Leigh Anderson

Alternative Names: Dana Scully

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Another miraculous result of playing Scully has been all the incredible young women I have been blessed to meet along the way--women who have shared that they have received strength from Scully, that because of Scully's strength they have been afraid but done it anyway. These have been women from all walks of life: women from low-income neighborhoods who have persevered despite all odds to study hard and pursue their dreams, enabling them to enter into better schools and work environments; women who have illness and physical challenges who have gotten better and stronger because they believe they can. I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

“The intrigue is not even what makes this work intriguing,” he quipped.

The geology, the cosmos, they waken something. Even in scientists.

Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist.

“Divination has always embraced strange, ultimately disproved customs,” she said.

Every fictional character is based on someone. My English teacher told us that.

Mikel knew better than to question her. Not because she was always right, but because there was no changing her mind once it was set.

I would masturbate in a red speedo.

Familiarity helped to construct subterfuge.

I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

But “everyone knew” were words of death in scientific research.

If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.

You know, the last time I was on [the show], we were talking about colonics and this is a little step up.

In England, I get offered films. I don't get offers in America. People don't know what to do with me in America. And I've disappeared.