The X-Files

Gillian Anderson was best known for her role on The X-Files. As special agent Dana Katherine Scully, she worked out of a cramped basement office at FBI headquarters to explore unsolved cases with partner special agent Fox William "Spooky" Mulder. Unlike her FBI partner, she was depicted to be more skeptical in the supernatural, and believed on what science can prove. She won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her outstanding performance on the award-winning series.

Following The X-Files, Anderson provided the voice of Dana Scully in the video game The X-Files: Resist or Serve. She won an Irish Film and Television Award for her performance in the drama film The Mighty Celt as Kate, and was cast as Lady Dedlock on the fifteen-part BBC series Bleak House, in which she earned numerous nominations from various award-giving bodies and acquired a Broadcasting Press Guild Award. She also graced the movie industry with projects like A Cock and Bull Story as Widow Wadman, and The Last King of Scotland as Sarah Merrit. Most recently, she starred in Straightheads, a dark British movie that featured eroticism, brutal attacks, and a plot for revenge. The said film included Danny Dryer, Anthony Calf, Ralph Brown, Francesca Fowler and Steven Robertson.

At present, Anderson is busy filming How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, which is slated for 2008. The comedy also stars Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, Danny Huston, and Jeff Bridges. She is also set to work in the movie No One Gets Off in This Town, a British comedy about blackmail. Directed by Richard Kwietniowski and written by Colin Bytheway, the cast also includes John Hurt, Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Amira Casar and Spencer Hawken.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist

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