Gillian Anderson was born on August 9th 1969 in Chicago, Illinois in the
U.S.. She is the eldest of three children, her father Edward runs a film post-
production company and her mother Rosemary is a computer analyst. After
Gillian was born the family moved to Puerto Rico and then to London,
returning to America when Gillian was eleven. Gillian attended DePaul
University's Goodman Theatre School in Chicago. She moved to New York
when she was twenty-two to persue a career in acting.
In 1993 she auditioned for The X-Files Pilot. She got the part assuming
it would run for thirteen episodes, this is the number of episodes that
networks ask for to begin with. Little did she know that seven years
later the show would still be running, with a feature film under their
belt too.
Shortly after she began working on The X-Files, Gillian began seeing Clyde
Klotz, who is a art director on The X-Files. They got married after dating
for four months. Soon after Gillian found out she was pregnant. She feared
the part would be recast but when she disclosed to Chris Carter that she
was pregnant, the decision was made to film around her pregnancy. This led
to the abduction of Dana Scully storyline. Her daughter Piper was born on
September 1994. She was delivered by cesarean section.
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