Gillian Anderson

Name : Gillian Anderson
Date of Birth : August 9th 1968

Gillian Anderson first gained recognition as an actresss for her off-Broadway performance in Alan Ayckbourne's "Absent Friends" at the Manhattan Theater Club, for which she won a Theatre World Award. Her love of theater began in high school where she participated in community theater. In college, Anderson studies with the National Theater of Great Britain at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and then at the Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University, where she obtained her BFA degree.

Anderson, 5' 2" tall, was born August 9, and lives in Los Angeles. She is married, and has a baby girl called . She is not related in any way to Jo Anderson who appeared as Diana in the television show _Beauty and the Beast_.