Gillian Anderson Biography
Gillian was born on
August 9, 1968 in Chicago, IL, to Ed and Rosemary Anderson and is one of
3 children. She lived in Puerto Rico, and then in London, so her father
could attend a film school there (Her family still owns a flat there).
At age 11 she moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended
elementary and then high school. She then moved to Chicago where she
went to college and once she had gained her BFA she then moved to New
York, N.Y. where she made several theater performances and then to Los
Angeles in about '91/'92. Upon gaining the role of Dana Scully, Gillian
then relocated to North Vancouver, Canada where she now resides with her
husband and daughter.
Gillian attended Fountain Elementary and then City High in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. After graduating in 1986 she moved to Chicago and attended the
Goodman Theater School at DePaul University (a major theater
conservatory), in Chicago, IL where she obtained her Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree. While attending DePaul University, she also studied at the
summer program at the National Theater of Great Britain at Cornell
University in Ithaca, N.Y.
After initially wanting to be a marine biologist, at about age 17, she
was in "a couple of auditions" in the Grand Rapids Community
Theater, where she was "cast in a couple of things," and from
then it was as if she "had never thought about marine biology."
While studying for her Bachelor of Fine Arts at DePaul University,
Gillian spent some time in the National Theater of Great Britain. During
this time, she also had a role in a film named "The Turning"
in 1988. After receiving her degree, she moved to New York and embarked
on a serious career in theater - including an off-broadway production of
Alan Ayckbourne's "Absent Friends," for which she won a
Theater World award in 1991. She also appeared in "The
Philanthropist" at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.
Gillian then moved to Los Angeles and spent a year auditioning for
various things, during which time she did "Home Fires Burning"
for a cable station as well as the audiocassette version of "Exit
to Eden" by Anne Rice. Although she had once vowed she would "never
do TV", and seemed set on a career in film or theater, being out of
work for a year or so changed her mind and she had a role in an episode
of "Class of '96" and then was impressed enough by the role of
Dana Scully that she auditioned for the role.
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