Gillian Anderson first burst into the public’s consciousness 28 years ago with The X-Files. On Chris Carter’s ground breaking sci-fi drama for Fox, she played FBI special agent Dana Scully, a young woman with a medical degree and a graduate degree in physics who, with her partner, David Duchovny’s agent Fox Mulder, investigates unsolved cases of paranormal phenomena. Her Scully — whom The New York Times described as “one of the coolest, most competent professional women ever portrayed on television” — enlivened an initial run of nine seasons, two movie spinoffs and a recent 10th season, and she picked up an Emmy, a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award along the way. In between, she also shined in indie films like The House of Mirth and The Last King…
