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Gillian Anderson
born: 09-08-1968
birth place: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Anyone who thinks that acting in the same TV series for nine years straight might render an actress typecast needs only to look at Gillian Anderson to have a serious re-think. Although she is indisputably best known for her iconic role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully from ‘The X-Files’ (1993), she is also an accomplished actress of the big screen and theatre.

Born in Chicago, Illinois on 9 August 1968, Europe’s year of revolutions, Anderson’s mother Rosemary was a computer analyst, and her father Edward Anderson owned a film post-production facility house. Very soon after Anderson was born, her parents moved to Puerto Rico, where they lived for 15 months, before relocating yet again, this time to England. Anderson spent her childhood growing up in the leafy suburbs of North London, where the family lived in Stamford Hill and Crouch End at various times, before finally settling in Haringay, where her father enrolled for a course at the London Film School. When Anderson was only 11 years old, the family moved back to America, where they settled in the town of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Anderson attended school at Fountain Elementary, then City High-Middle School, where her talent was quickly recognised, such that she received a thorough grounding in the humanities on the faculty’s gifted students programme. But she was a troubled adolescent, by all accounts, and it is interesting to speculate whether she would actually have preferred to remain living in England. At high school, Anderson was mocked and teased because of her English accent, and she has commented in various interviews that she felt totally out of place in the American Midwest. She cemented her “outsider” status still further by dying her hair in outlandish shades, having her nose pierced, and even, at one stage, joining a punk band. Anderson’s entries as “Most Bizarre”, “Class Clown” and even “Most Likely To Be Arrested” in one of her high school year books says it all. The tempestuous teen almost turned the last prediction into a self-fulfilling prophecy when she was apprehended on graduation night, and caught trying to jam up the doors of her high school by filling up the locks with glue.

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