Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Women We Love: Gillian Anderson

Object of our affection: Gillian Anderson, actress.

- As Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, she won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Saturn Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She also reprised her iconic character in the feature film The X-Files: Fight the Future and its sequel, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, opening this Friday.

- Like her X-co-star David Duchovny, she also wrote and directed her own episode of The X-Files, titled "All Things".

- Also on the big screen, she proved there was life after Scully with her critically acclaimed performance in The House of Mirth. Other films she has appeared in include The Mighty, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and The Last King of Scotland.

- Back on the small screen, she gained more award recognition for the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Bleak House. She currently hosts the long-running PBS program.

- In addition to the X-sequel, she will appear in the upcoming films How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Boogie Woogie and No One Gets Off in This Town.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Gillian Anderson is an amazingly talented actress. I love her on The X-Files, and I am constantly being blown away at the work that she does outside the show.

She's fantastic as well as beautiful.