Gillian Anderson
American actress (born 1968)
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- During the 2022 Canneseries Festival, Gillian was honored with the “Variety Icon Award”.
- During the 2021 Golden Globes, she received the “Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Movie” award for her role in The Crown. She also won the 2021 Critics Choice Award for “Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series” and the 2021 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Supporting Drama Actress” for the same role.
- She portrayed the character of Margaret Thatcher, a British politician and stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, in the Netflix historical drama streaming television series, The Crown, in 2020.
- In December 2020, she introduced a new dog named Stella to her Instagram family.
- She begins every day with a few minutes of meditation without fail.
- She is known to have four tattoos on her body and shared her intention to get inked for the fifth time in 2015. Only 3 of her tattoos are visibly known which are: a circle on her left hand, a Hindi word on the inside of her right wrist, and a Tahitian symbol of two entwined tortoises on her ankle.
- Gillian is bad with technology and has a team of experts helping her with her social media accounts.
- She was offered to pose n*de for the cover of Playboy magazine which she declined.
- In 2016, Gillian was bestowed with the most excellent order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the dramatic arts.
- Gillian actively supports Women’s Rights by aligning with Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), Children’s Rights by being a patron of Childreach International, Indigenous Rights for Tribals in Africa and Latin America, Animal Rights by associating with PETA and finally, jumped in favor of environmental advocacy by joining Greenpeace in 2012.
- She is a spokesperson for several charitable trusts, networks, and foundations that particularly work towards raising money for people afflicted with Neurofibromatosis, a disease that killed her brother.
- In 2008, Anderson co-founded a non-profit organization called South African Youth Education for Sustainability (SAYes) that mentors marginalized young people in South Africa.
- She identifies herself as a feminist and has a low tolerance for derogatory behavior towards women.
- She has done voiceover work for video games like Hellbender, The X Files: Resist or Serve, and The X-Files Game.
- Gillian also has a very keen interest in architecture and interior design. She switches homes every few years and sees each house as a personal project to upgrade in structure and style before putting it back on the market.
- She is an avid patron and collector of art pieces and invests a lot of money in support of European and American artists. Her main area of interest lies in paintings, photography, and lithography.
- In 1997, Gillian won a Screen Actor’s Guild Award, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe for playing Dana Scully in The X–Files.
- In 1996, FHM (UK) ranked her as the sexiest woman in the world.
- Right after finishing her education, Gillian swore she would never move to Los Angeles and never work on TV: the two things that eventually gave her career the biggest head start.
- She claims to have a command over two dialects and switches between American Midwestern and British accents easily depending upon whether she is in the USA or UK.
- She used to work at a pub in Chicago called Goose Island Brewpub to make some money while she was still a student. Once Gillian became a famous actress, the pub named a drink after her on their menu.
- Gillian’s high school girlfriend was offered a large sum of money to reveal their intimate photo which was turned down by her. When she expired in 2011 of a brain tumor, Gillian came out and confessed about her high school relationship as a means to honor her ex-girlfriend.
- To grow out of her teens, she started dating much older men. In 2012, she revealed she was also in a same-s*x relationship for a very long time in high school.
- She was put in therapy at the age of 14 to cope with her bizarre behavior.