RECENT CREDITS
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (FILM)  Jul. 25, 2008
Concert for Diana (TV)  Jul. 1, 2007
The Last King of Scotland (FILM)  Sep. 27, 2006


HIGHLIGHTS
2008 Reprised role of Agent Scully for "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" the second feature based on the popular series
2008 Joined an ensemble cast for the comedy "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People"
2006 Featured in "A Cock and Bull Story" a film version of the novel, Tristram Shandy
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Boogie Woogie   -Cast
Actor
Film


Director, Producer, Screenplay
Film


Actor
Film


Gellhorn   -Martha Gellhorn
Producer, Actor
Film


How to Lose Friends & Alienate People  2008 -Eleanor Johnson
Actor
Film


The X-Files: I Want to Believe  2008 -Agent Dana Scully
Actor
Film


Concert for Diana  2007 -Presenter
Actor
TV


The Last King of Scotland  2006 -Sarah Merrit
Actor
Film


Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story  2006 -Widow Wadman/"Gillian Anderson"
Actor
Film


Bleak House  2005 -Lady Dedlock
Actor
TV


When I Was A Girl  2002 -Interviewee
Actor
TV


The House of Mirth  2000 -Lily Bart
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Princess Mononoke  1999 -of Moro
Voice
Film


Playing By Heart  1999 -Meredith
Actor
Film


The Mighty  1998 -Loretta Lee
Actor
Film


Chicago Cab  1998
Actor
Film


50th Emmy Awards  1998 -Presenter
Actor
TV


The X-Files  1998 -Agent Dana Scully
Actor
Film


Inside the X-Files  1998 -Interviewee
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Actor
TV


The 1997 MTV Movie Awards  1997 -Presenter
Actor
TV


The Turning  1997 -April Cavanaugh
Actor
Film


The X-Files  1998-2002 -Dana Scully
Director, Writer, Actor
TV
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Future Fantastic  1997 -Host, Narration
Actor, Narrator
TV


The Screen Actors Guild Awards  1997 -Presenter
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


The 1996 Emmy Awards  1996 -Presenter
Actor
TV


More Secrets of the X-Files  1996 -Herself
Actor
TV


Why Planes Go Down  1996 -Host
Actor
TV


Spies Above  1996 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Actor
TV


Frasier  1993 -Jenny
Actor
TV
Expand


The Simpsons  1990 -Dana Scully
Voice
TV
Expand


Closure   -Alice
Actor
Film




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Highlights

2008 Reprised role of Agent Scully for "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" the second feature based on the popular series
2008 Joined an ensemble cast for the comedy "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People"
2006 Featured in "A Cock and Bull Story" a film version of the novel, Tristram Shandy
2006 Played the wife to an English doctor in "The Last King of Scotland" about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker)
2005 Portrayed Lady Dedlock in the BBC/PBS adaptation of "Bleak House"; based on the novel by Charles Dickens; earned BAFTA (2006), Emmy (2006) and Golden Globe (2007) nominations for Best Actress in a Min
2000 Starred as Lily Bart in Terence Davies film adaptation of "The House of Mirth"
1998 Had supporting role as an eccentric, alcoholic biker chick in "The Mighty"
1998 Reprised Emmy-winning role of Scully for the feature film "The X-Files"
1998 Offered fine turn as a romantically embittered theater director finding love with architect Jon Stewart in the ensemble film "Playing By Heart"
1997 Made cameo appearance as a big-haired working-class girl who fights with her boyfriend in "Chicago Cab"
1993 - 2002 Played FBI agent Dana Scully on the FOX paranormal crime drama series, "The X-Files"
1992 Feature film debut in "The Turning"
1991 Appeared in the Off-Broadway production "Absent Friends"
Moved from London, England to Grand Rapids, Michigan at age 11
Got involved in community theater productions while still in high school
Performed the book tape version of Anne Rice's "Exit to Eden"
Cast in the pilot episode of "The X-Files" the same day her last unemployment check arrived


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