Gillian Anderson, Dana Scully in The X-Files and Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, looks back on four decades of film, television and theatre in an hour on stage at BFI Southbank.
Gillian Anderson, a two-time Primetime Emmy winner, talks about four decades of work at BFI Southbank on the South Bank on Sunday 25 October 2026.
Anderson was born in Chicago and spent her early childhood in Crouch End and Haringey, while her father studied at the London Film School. The family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when she was 11.
She trained at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago and began her career on stage. Dana Scully in The X-Files made her known around the world. Later came Stella Gibson in The Fall, Jean Milburn in Sex Education and Margaret Thatcher in The Crown.
The theatre has stayed part of the work. She was nominated for Olivier Awards as Nora in A Doll’s House and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
This autumn she is back in the West End as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at @sohoplace, opposite Billy Crudup, until December. The hour-long conversation in NFT1 covers Hollywood, television, theatre and independent film.
The same day, she introduces a screening of Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, in which she stars.