Trivia

She was voted "Class Clown", "Most Bizarre Girl" and "Most Likely to be Arrested" by her classmates in high school. In fact, she was arrested on graduation night for trying to glue the locks shut at her high school.

Told The X Files (1993) executives that she was age 27 so that she would appear more credible as an FBI agent with a medical degree.

She and her parents left the USA and moved to London, UK, and later Northern Ireland, from age 2 to age 11. After that, they moved from the UK to Michigan, USA. She also lived in Puerto Rico for a while. In 2002, she relocated to London, where works and lives to this day.

Standing at just 5' 3", she has to stand on an apple box to shoot many scenes in The X Files (1993).

She is bidialectal. While she was living in London as a child, she had taken on a British accent to make friends. After moving back to the USA, she adopted an American accent because she was teased by her classmates for speaking with a British accent.

Once received an offer to appear on the cover and pose nude for Playboy. According to an interview in FHM magazine, she was offered an impressive amount of money to take off her clothes, but Gillian refused it. "I turned it down. But it was very flattering." she said.

Is the youngest actress - at age 29 (1997) - to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series since Lindsay Wagner won at age 28 (1977).

Is the first actress to receive an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award in the same year.

Her daughter, Piper Maru, was the inspiration for the title of an The X Files (1993) episode introducing the famous black oil in the series.

The X Files (1993) writer, Chris Carter, is the godfather of her daughter, Piper Maru.

Return to work on The X Files (1993) 10 days after she gave birth to Piper Maru.

Spent her first paycheck from The X Files (1993) on art.

Was married to first husband Clyde Klotz on the 17th hole of a golf course in Hawaii by a Buddhist priest.

Hair is naturally blonde, it was dyed and styled into the famous bob by Malcolm Marsden, who was immortalized as the British Member of Parliament (MP) in the episode "Fire".

She has played the same character (Dana Scully) on three different series: The X Files (1993), Eek! the Cat (1992) and The Simpsons (1989).

She was awarded an Honorary OBE (Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama.

Gave birth to her third child at age 40, a son Felix Griffiths on October 15, 2008. Child's father is her ex-boyfriend, Mark Griffiths.

Says her favorite film is The Wrong Trousers (1993). (1996)

Is also a writer.

Gave birth to her first child at age 26, a daughter Piper Maru Klotz (aka Piper Anderson) on September 25, 1994. Child's father is her first husband, Clyde Klotz.

As a teen, her favorite music bands included Skinny Puppy and Dead Kennedys.

Kept her daughter, Piper Maru, completely hidden from the public until they both appeared in Joan Ostin's book, "Celebrity Moms" and the April 2001 issue of In Style magazine.

Voted the "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women" poll. (1996)

Daughter of Homer Edward "Ed" Anderson III, who owned a film post-production company, and wife Rosemary "Posie" Alyce Lane, a computer analyst, she has a younger brother, Aaron Anderson, who suffers from neurofibromatosis for which she has done activist work to encourage Government to increase funding for research, and a younger sister, Zoe Anderson.

Was the first woman to host Masterpiece which began in 1971.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6508 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on January 8, 2018.

Is an avid art collector. Her collection includes work from such artists as Diane Arbus, Francesco Clemente and Kiki Smith.

On December 29, 2004, she married her long-term boyfriend Julian Ozanne on the resort town of Shella on Lamu Island, Kenya.

She has English, German and Irish ancestry.

Gave birth to her second child at age 38, a son Oscar Griffiths on November 1, 2006. Child's father is her ex-boyfriend, Mark Griffiths.

Gained her first real break when she replaced Mary-Louise Parker in the play "The Philanthropist".

Attended the Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where she earned her degree in Fine Arts. One of her classmates was Nina Siemaszko.

Named her two sons Oscar and Felix. Oscar and Felix are also the first names of the comically mismatched roommates in the Neil Simon play "The Odd Couple".

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. (1997)

Of the five actresses nominated for an Emmy Award as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie" (2006), she was the only one who has not been nominated for an Academy Award.

Attended and graduated from City High School, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan.

Engaged to photojournalist Julian Ozanne. Wedding was planned for September 2003 during a safari ceremony in Kenya, but was delayed for over a year for fears of a terrorist attack.

Was in a relationship with Businessman Mark Griffiths from 2006 to 2012.

Graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.

Received the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Best Actress Award for her West End debut in Michael Weller's two-hander, "What the Night Is For". (2003)

Is a supporter of Planned Parenthood.

Ranked #2 in Top Socialite's The 20 Hottest Women of the 90's.

Ranked #21 in FHM magazine's All-Time 100 Sexiest Hall of Fame. (December 2008)

Presented the Best Designer Award at the 51st Evening Standard Theatre Awards. (2005)

Friends with New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, musician/inventor Quintron.

Chosen by Australian men magazine Zoo weekly as one of the "Top 50 Hottest Babes Ever". (March 2006)

Ranked #6 in AskMen.com's Top 7 - '90s Sex Symbols.

Was in a relationship with screenwriter and playwright Peter Morgan from 2016 to 2020.

Ranked #23 on Wizard magazine's Sexiest Women of TV list. (March 2008)

Maternal granddaughter of Leslie Clute Lane Jr. (b. Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina) (son of Leslie Clute Lane Sr. and wife Alice or Alyce Virginia Nealon, paternal grandson of William Isaac Lane and wife Mary Emma Clute and maternal grandson of James Paul Thomas Nealon (b. Ireland, Great-Britain and Ireland) and wife Catherine Schofield (b. Ireland, Great-Britain and Ireland)) and wife Louise Theresa Bachhuber (b. Wisconsin, of German descent) (daughter of Philip George Bachhuber Sr. and wife Rosa Johanna Bauer, paternal granddaughter of Andreas "Andrew" Bachhuber and wife Louisa "Lizzy" Sterr and maternal granddaughter of Joseph Bauer and wife Elizabeth Mary Hinkes).