Gillian Anderson

The X

2008-11-05T08:11:00.000-08:00

The X (The X-Files) is the American television series on the borderline of many species: sensationalism, thrillers, horror, science fiction and a few others. The idea, the producer and director and author of a number of scenarios episodes is Chris Carter. A distinctive, moody music composed Mark Snow.

In 1998 a feature film from the archives of X: Beat the future (called The X-Files: Fight the Future). His story has been placed between 5 and 6 series.

More than 6 years after the last episode of a series premiere in 2008, was the second feature film from the archives of X: I want to believe (called The X-Files: I want to believe). The story of film, in contrast to the first version of cinema, not touching the so-called. "mitologicznego thread", but this thriller, which is a loose continuation of the series.

gillian donates to neurofibromatosis

2008-09-19T06:54:00.000-07:00

The X-Files completed its ninth and final season in 2002, when Gillian was 34 years old. After the show came to a close, Gillian moved to London and began doing theater work again, starring in the Michael Weller play What the Night is For, from November 2002 to February 2003.

Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson is doing her best to promote awareness for charitable causes including Neurofibromatosis, Inc. (her brother has the disease), Buskaid, The Trevor Project, and Tusk Trust.

Boogie Woogie

2008-08-28T04:15:00.000-07:00

The contemporary art world had better brace itself - it's set to be lampooned this autumn in Boogie Woogie, a new film featuring a top-notch cast. Directed by the documentary maker Duncan Ward (husband to art curator Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst), the film takes a wry look at the machinations of a London-based art dealer and his cohorts, and looks certain to raise eyebrows in Cork Street and beyond.

Danny Huston, star of 30 Days of Night and The Kingdom, is Art Spindle, an art dealer who covets Piet Mondrian's abstract expressionist painting Broadway Boogie Woogie - owned in the film by the collector Alfred Rhinegold, played by Christopher Lee. Problems ensue when Rhinegold, who bought the painting from Mondrian himself, refuses to sell it. Other famous faces include Joanna Lumley, Charlotte Rampling, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham, Simon McBurney and Jaime Winstone.

Due to be released in November*, Boogie Woogie is based on the novel of the same name by Danny Moynihan, the writer, curator and friend of the artist Damien Hirst, who himself created a limited-edition cover for the book, featuring works by Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn and Jeff Koons. Moynihan has written the screenplay and is also a producer on the film. Such are Moynihan's contemporary art connections that when the book was published in 2000, even the elusive dealer Charles Saatchi contributed a jacket comment, saying: "No sleep for you the night you open it!"

Gillian Anderson

2008-06-30T08:11:00.001-07:00

Gillian Anderson started her career as a member of an amateur actor group, while at high school. Her love of the theatre took her to the national theatre of Great Britain at the Cornell University of Ithaca, in New York. Afterwards, Anderson left for the Goodman Theatre School of the DePaul University in Chicago, where she finished her education. Her big break came with "The X Files" (1993) (with David Duchovny) as Dana Scully. There, she met her future husband (Clyde Klotz), marrying on January 1st 1994. One month later, Gillian was pregnant. Her daughter, Piper Anderson, was born on the 25th September 1994. Her film career started with the movie The Turning (1992) in 1997 and, the following year, she starred in Playing by Heart (1998) with Sean Connery, Ellen Burstyn, Angelina Jolie and Dennis Quaid.

Other TV appearances

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* ReBoot as Agent Data Nully - "Trust No One" January 1996.
* Future Fantastic as herself - July/August 1996.
* The Simpsons as Agent Scully - "The Springfield Files" January 1997.
* Concert for Diana as herself - 1 July 2007.
* Robbie the Reindeer (Close Encounters of the Herd Kind) as Vorkana, Queen of the Nargathrons - 25th December 2007.
* Masterpiece Theater as herself (host) - January 2008.