WhenThe X-Filespremiered in 1993, FBI agent and medical doctor Dana Scully was unlike any other woman on television. Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, was equal to, and not just the sidekick of, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). She was sharp, resilient, fiercely intelligent, and working a ...
The X-Files became a cultural phenomenon, and though it appealed to a wide audience, it was especially significant to me as a young woman. I think one of the reasons why geeky women like myself gravitated to the show was because of Agent Dana Scully, played by the brilliant Gillian And...
Another well-known genre actor Terry O'Quinn may be best known for portraying John Locke onLost, but he also appeared in a memorable role onTNGand on multiple episodes ofThe X-files. InStar Trek: The Next Generationseason 7, episode 12, "The Pegasus," O'Quinn playedAdmiral Eric Pressman...
Long before Bosch joined the long line of complex antiheroes on television,Titus Welliverpopped in on an episode ofThe X-Files. In season one's "Darkness Falls," Welliver played Doug Spinney, an eco-terrorist who is disturbed by the presence of a swarm of insects that only come out at n...
The part eventually went to Anna Paquin. VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images, Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage Jennifer Lawrence as Crystal Norris on True Blood A 17-year-old Jennifer Lawrence read for the part of werepanther Crystal Norris, and almost got the part, but her age played a factor in t...
If a show runs for long enough, it's bound to lose a major cast member along the way. Actors are artists, and doing a sitcom for more than a few years or appearing on an emotionally intense drama just might not interest them anymore. They might want to go star in movies or give Br...
"Man, its just like the X files" he once told me. Then he kept calling me Scully. Most of the time I couldn't understand what he was talking about - he's sort of a walking dictionary of phrases, old films, books and that kind of stuff. We're tal- king mostly index, but he ...
University in Ithaca, New York, where the National Theater of Great Britain hosted its Summer Acting Program in 1987. Anderson then returned to DePaul University’s Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Illinois, to finish her degree. Her major break as Dana Scully was in Top Secret Files (...
In a 2024 Wired "Autocomplete" interview, Anderson opened up about why she lied about her age to land the role of Agent Dana Scully on the '90s TV classic The X-Files. The first question for the autocomplete searches was, "What age was Gillian Anderson in The X-Files?" The now-56-...