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Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe
Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI
Special Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files
and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House. Gillian holds
the record as the youngest actress - at the age of 29 years old in
1997 - to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Primetime Drama Series
Emmy Award since Lindsay Wagner won at the age of 28 in 1977.
Anderson had roles in a handful of films during the run of The
X-Files and starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the
Edith Wharton novel of the same name. In 2005, she appeared as
Lady Dedlock in the BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens'
novel Bleak House, had a starring role in the Irish film The
Mighty Celt (for which she won an IFTA award for Best
International Actress) and performed in A Cock and Bull Story, a
film version of the novel, Tristram Shandy. In 2006, Anderson was
nominated for a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best
Actress and won the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio
Award for Best Actress for her role in Bleak House. During 2006
and 2007, Anderson appeared in two British films: The Last King of
Scotland (2006) and Straightheads (2007). On December 10th, 2007,
Anderson began filming the second X-Files movie, slated for a July
2008 release ... more
