Gillian Anderson Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Gillian Anderson filmography covers 32 movie titles and 20 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Gillian Anderson movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Inside The X-Files (1998) as Self
• Playing by Heart (1998) as Meredith
• The Mighty (1998) as Loretta Lee
• The X-Files (1998) as Agent Dana Scully
• The House of Mirth (2000) as Lily Bart
• A Cock and Bull Story (2005) as Widow Wadman / Gillian Anderson
• The Last King of Scotland (2006) as Sarah Merrit
• Straightheads (2007) as Alice
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) as Eleanor Johnson
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) as Dana Scully
• Boogie Woogie (2010) as Jean Maclestone
• Johnny English Reborn (2011) as Pamela
• Room on the Broom (2012) as Witch (voice)
• Shadow Dancer (2012) as Kate Fletcher
• Sister (2012) as Kristin Jansen
• I'll Follow You Down (2013) as Marika Whyte
• Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013) as Karen Morgan
• National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014) as Blanche DuBois
• Robot Overlords (2015) as Kate
• Sold (2016) as Sophia
• Crooked House (2017) as Magda Leonides
• Viceroy's House (2017) as Edwina Mountbatten
• The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) as Wendy
• UFO (2018) as Dr. Hendricks
• This Changes Everything (2019) as Self
• The Sunlit Night (2020) as Olyana
• Robin Robin (2021) as Cat (voice)
• The Pale Blue Eye (2022) as Julia Marquis
• White Bird (2023) as Vivienne Beaumier
• Scoop (2024) as Emily Maitlis
• The Salt Path (2025) as Raynor Winn
• TRON: Ares (2025) as Elisabeth Dillinger

Gillian Anderson television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Gillian Anderson; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• American Gods as Media
• American Idol as Self
• Bleak House as Lady Dedlock
• Crisis as Meg Fitch
• Eek! The Cat as Dana Scully (voice)
• Frasier as Jenny (voice)
• Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
• Hannibal as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier
• Moby Dick as Elizabeth
• ReBoot as Data Nully (voice)
• Ronja, the Robber's Daughter as Narrator
• Sex Education as Jean Milburn
• The Abandons as Constance Van Ness
• The Crimson Petal and the White as Mrs. Castaway
• The Crown as Margaret Thatcher
• The Fall as Stella Gibson
• The First Lady as Eleanor Roosevelt
• The Simpsons as Dana Scully (voice)
• The X-Files as Dana Scully
• War and Peace as Anna Pavlovna Scherer

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Gillian Anderson's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.