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When actress Gillian Anderson landed the role of Agent Scully for the Fox television series X-Files (1993- ) she could not have foreseen that within two years she would become an internationally known cult phenomenon. She was born in Chicago, but moved to London at age two and remained there until she was in her early teens. She and her family then moved to Grand Rapids, MI, where she rebelliously got heavily into the punk rock scene complete with spiky, brilliantly colored hair and body piercings with safety pins. When she was 14, she became romantically involved with a 20-year-old punk singer and occasionally sang in his band. Her punk period lasted through high school. Following graduation, she got involved in local theater and from there studied fine arts at the Goodman Theater School of Drama at Chicago's DePaul University. Following graduation, she moved to New York where she waited tables and appeared in off-Broadway plays, most notably in Absent Friends, in which she had a starring role that won her a Theater World Award. Anderson made her film debut in 1992 with the low-budget drama The Turning. She then appeared in a theatrical production of The Philanthropist and after that moved to Los Angeles. Though she was frequently courted for television roles, Anderson disdained the medium until the X-Files audition came along. Though the producers were looking for a brainy version of a Baywatch girl, the beautiful but more natural looking (having long passed her outrageous days) Anderson got the role thanks to the insistence of the show's creator Chris Carter. The show became a smash hit within two seasons and Anderson found herself an international star, as did her co-star David Duchovny, the subject of numerous pages on the Internet, and the recipient of such awards as a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In addition to continuing work on the X-Files, Anderson hosted a couple of television specials, including More Secrets of the X-Files and the BBC documentary series Future Fantastic. She also lent her voice as a documentary narrator on Spies Above and as a guest character on the television series The Simpsons and Reboot. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller
Length: 104min
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with this long-delayed big-screen continuation that revives the series six years after it headed off the air in 2002. Creator Chris Carter returns to direct,...
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Straightheads (2007)
Tags: Crime
Length: 88min
Director Dan Reed's revenge hriller Straightheads constitutes a long, penetrating meditation on the psychological fallout experienced by two attack victims. This cathartically ultraviolent picture opens on a deceptively placid note - with romance...
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008)
Cast: Jeff Bridges
Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 110min
Frequent Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B. Weide makes his feature directorial debut with this screen adaptation of British writer Toby Young's comedic novel of the same name. When self-promoting scribe Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) accepts a...
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Cast: Forest Whitaker
Tags: Docudrama Political Drama Drama
Length: 121min
Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes...
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Cast: Michael Winterbottom Nino Rota
Tags: Period Film Comedy Showbiz Comedy Ensemble Film
Length: 94min
A group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt an "unfilmable" classic novel -- but find that their own petty concerns get in the way -- in this satirical comedy. Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel -The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,...
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Bleak House (2005)
Cast: Ian Richardson
Tags: Drama Period Film
Length: 480min
A trio of orphans becomes embroiled in a mysterious and long-running lawsuit in this sprawling BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel. A legend in the legal circles of Victorian London, the messy inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been...
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The X-Files (1998)
Cast: Blythe Danner Armin Mueller-Stahl David Duchovny Martin Landau Gillian Anderson
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Science Fiction Alien Film Sci-Fi Action
Length: 120min
This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot...
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The House of Mirth (2000)
Cast: Laura Linney Terence Davies Anthony LaPaglia Terry Kinney Eleanor Bron Eric Stoltz
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance Period Film
Length: 143min
Adapted for the screen from Edith Wharton's much-loved novel of the same name, House of Mirth follows the fortunes -- or lack thereof -- of Lily Bart, an ambitious but financially imperiled young woman looking for a rich husband in early 20th century...
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Hellcab (1998)
Tags: Comedy Drama Urban Drama Ensemble Film Urban Comedy
Length: 95min
The husband-and-wife team of Mary Cybulski and John Tintori (creators of the acclaimed short Manhattan Dinner) directed this Will Kern screenplay which he adapted from his 1992 play Hellcab about a winter's day in the life of a Windy City driver,...
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The Mighty Celt (2005)
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 82min
A young boy from a broken home learns the harsh realities of life after adopting an awkward greyhound and befriending a mysterious figure from his mother's past in this tender coming of age story starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, and Tyrone...
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