Gillian Anderson
Synopsis:
Gillian Anderson is back with her X Files.
Gillian Anderson always meant to play Dana Scully again - but until now life got in the way.
Gillian Anderson is something of an enigma, which is perhaps fitting given that she spent nine uninterrupted years playing the paranormal investigator Dana Scully in the TV phenomenon that was The X Files. On the one hand, there is her onscreen guise, defined, whether the actress likes it or not, by Scully’s glacial poise and biting scepticism, while on the other there is her fiery public persona, characterised by a turbulent personal life, which includes two marriages and two divorces, the last in early 2006, when she split from the documentary maker Julian Ozanne after just 16 months. Anderson’s three-year marriage to Clyde Klotz, an art director on the X Files and father of her eldest child, Piper, came to an end in 1997.
Now the 39-year-old actress is living with a British businessman, Mark Griffith, with whom she had her second child, 18-month-old Oscar, in November 2006, and she is reprising the character of Scully in the new movie, The X Files: I Want to Believe. ....
- Publish date:
- 24 July 2008
- Author:
- Will Lawrence
- Source:
- The Times
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