Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress and writer. She received international fame for starring as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the Fox science fiction mystery series The X-Files, winning a Primetime Emmy Award for the role. Her other credits include socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall (2013–2016), sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education (2019–2023), and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown (2020), for which she earned her second Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Also born on August 9
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- Eric Bana1968 · Australian actor
- Bill Skarsgård1990 · Swedish actor and model
- Sam Elliott1944 · American actor
- Filipe Luís1985 · Brazilian association football player
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Also born in 1968
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- Hugh Jackman1968 · Australian actor and singer
- Daniel Craig1968 · English actor
- Naomi Watts1968 · British actress
- Brendan Fraser1968 · American and Canadian actor
- Felipe VI1968 · King of Spain since 2014