X-Films
August 9, 1968 To most of the public, especially television, she is Dana Scully, the deadpan, serious and rational FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder committed together with his colleague solve a thousand puzzles, scary and disturbing, the average tv series X-Files. If the character has almost engulfed the person (and even more so the actress, who is likely to be imprisoned in the role), all you can tell Gillian Leigh Anderson except that both an artist resting on our laurels. Very intelligent, hardworking, charming and exuberant, and lively personality, loves his job although for a time he seems to have suffered the stress of the rigours of typical production of a show. Born on August 9, 1968 by Rosemary and Edward Anderson, the Hospital of Santa Maria di Nazareth in Cook County, Chicago, is a kind of daughter of art. She moved in six months with his parents in Puerto Rico (where it will be established for about a year), afterwards the family moved to London, a must for the father, intending to specialize in film post-production. Gillian began his studies at the London Film School. A few months before starting the fifth year of school, the family returns to the USA and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rebellious teen, Gillian grew however scientific ambitions before the demon of acting the had assailed him during high school. So, in the wake of these artistic ambitions, back to Chicago to study acting at the Goodman Theater School of DePaul University, where she was noticed during one of the final essays from an actors agency based in New York: the William Morris. The Agency offers to present it as a professional actress if he agrees to move to New York and, shortly afterwards, the 22-year-old Gillian goes to the Big Apple, where, for a while, to make ends meet she's a waitress in two different restaurants. Meanwhile, embarks on a serious acting career, including an interpretation in the production of Alan Ayckborne "Absent Friends" for which she won a Theatre World Award in 1991. Also plays a part in "The pilonthropist" by Christopher Hampton "Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. Following a brief stint in Los Angeles, where it is proposed to several auditions. During this time manages to get a part in a movie called "Home fires Burning" and lends his voice to interpret a role in an audio tape "Exit to Eden". The charming actress after such a hard time finally finds the courage to show up to audition for the pilot episode of the X-Files. The 1993 represents for her the magic year from the professional point of view: the tv series X-Files gets an extraordinary success by launching the Olympus both she and colleague David Duchovny. The following year he married production designer Clyde Klotz (known on the set of the show) with whom she had a daughter, Piper, christened by Chris Carter, the creator of "X-Files". The film was little: let us remember the films "just look at the sky", "playing by heart" (movie that counts in the cast several stars such as Sean Connery, Dennis Quaid, Angelina Jolie, Madeleine Stowe and others) and "the House of joy". After the breakup of his marriage (in 1997), she moved permanently to Vancouver in Canada. He had an affair with actor Rodney Rowland, but currently they declare single. A curiosity: the actress wrote and directed the episode from the seventh season of the X-Files entitled "All Things".