Gillian Anderson Biography and Profile

Biography

Nama : Gillian Anderson
Birth Name : Gillian Leigh Anderson
Birth Date : 08/09/1968
Birth Place : Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height : 5' 3"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress
Father : Edward Anderson
Mother : Rosemary Anderson
Spouse : Clyde Klotz (1-Jan-94 - 1997), Julian Ozanne (29-Dec-04 - 21-Apr-06)
Relation : Adrian Hughes (actor, 1996-1997), Rodney Rowland (actor, 1997-1998), Mark Griffiths (businessman, since 2006)
Claim Fame : As FBI Agent Dana Scully in TV series "The X-Files" (1993-2002)

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, best known for her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files.

She was born in Chicago, but lived in London until she was 11 years old. Her family then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students. With her English accent and background, she felt alienated in the surroundings of the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors, and was arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed.

She found an outlet for her creativity when she started acting in high school and community theatre productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990.

Following some professional stage work, she "broke in" to television. In 1993, she had a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of '96 on the fledgling Fox Network, and auditioned for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files. There she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz, whom she married and with whom she had a daughter, Piper Maru, in 1994. (An alien-abduction storyline explained her brief absence from the series for delivery.) Anderson and Klotz later divorced. She had roles in a handful of films during the run of The X-Files, including the starring role in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name. Since the end of production on the The X-Files, she has performed in several stage productions, in addition to working on various film projects