Gillian Anderson is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. She has featured in numerous hit movies including The X-Files, The House of Mirth, The Fall, and so on.
Anderson was born as Gillian Leigh Anderson to Edward Anderson and Rosemary Anderson on August 9, 1968, in Chicago. Most of her childhood, she spent in north London’s Crouch End and Harringay. She is of American-British nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity, English, German, and Irish.
Anderson joined Fountain Elementary and City High-Middle School, where she finished her early education. Later, she enrolled at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts where she served as a student intern. Leigh.
After completion of her graduation in 1986, she went to join The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago; she earned a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts in 1990. Furthermore, she also participated in the National Theatre of Great Britain’s summer program at Cornell University.
Anderson began her career as a stage actress and gained international recognition for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the American sci-fi drama series The X-Files.
In 2005, Anderson appeared in a drama film The Mighty Celt, which was directed by Pearse Elliot. The stars of this movie are Tyrone McKenna, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott, and Sean McGinley.
The following year, Anderson appeared in a 2006 historical drama film The Last King of Scotland, which was directed by Kevin Macdonald. The stars of this movie are Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, and Simon McBurney. The total budget for this movie was $6 million and grossed $48.4 million at the box office.
In 2017, Anderson appeared in a British-Indian historical drama film Viceroy's House alongside Hugh Bonneville, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, and David Hayman. This movie was directed by Gurinder Chadha and produced by Paul Mayeda Berges.
Some of her notable roles in movies and television series are as Lady Dedlock in Bleak House, Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart, Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier in Hannibal, and Media in American Gods.
Talking about her personal life, Anderson was in a relationship with a Canadian assistant art director Clyde Klotz. The couple met each other on the set of the show named The X–Files. She married Clyde Klotz in 1994 in a unique ceremony at the 17th hole of a Golf course in Hawaii by a Buddhist priest.
The couple also welcomed a daughter Piper Maru on September 25, 1994. However, she was unable to continue her married life with Clyde Klotz and divorced her husband Clyde in 1997.
After her divorce from her first spouse, Anderson began dating her boyfriend, a Canadian actor Adrian G. Griffiths. She also had an affair with the former model and actor Rod. She later married Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker on December 29, 2004. However, she couldn't live together for a long time with her second husband Julian Ozanne and separated from him on April 21, 2006.
Anderson was also involved in a romantic relationship with a businessman Mark Griffiths. The couple was blessed with two children Oscar and Felix. Since 2016, Anderson is dating her new boyfriend, a screenwriter and dramatist, Peter Morgan.
Gillian Anderson earns a huge amount of money from her professional acting career. She has appeared in numerous hit movies and television series from which she must have made a decent amount of money. According to some online sources, Gillian net worth of 2018 is an estimated $25 million.
