Stella Gibson: Last News

Manori Ravindran International EditorFew people can say their comfort zone is in playing strong women, but for Gillian Anderson, it ’s become something of a personal brand.The American-British actor, who was once best-known for her skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully in Fox’s long-running sci-fi hit “The X-Files,” has gone on to play detective Stella Gibson in “The Fall,” notorious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and sex therapist Jean Milburn in “Sex Education.” (And you wouldn’t want to cross any of them.)Anderson — who will receive the Variety Icon Award in a ceremony at CannesSeries on April 1 — will next be seen portraying the rarely dramatized Eleanor Roosevelt, opposite Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford, in Showtime’s drama “The First Lady.” But portraying no-nonsense women didn’t begin as a conscious choice for Anderson. In 1993, she recognized a “stark difference” between the Dana Scully role and “pretty much everything else on television at the time,” though, at age 24, she wouldn’t have labelled Scully as the feminist icon she’d come to represent.“I don’t think it was as clear-cut in my mind as being, ‘Oh, this is a feminist character,’” she says.

Gillian Anderson has been in spotlight for nearly three decades. She returns to our screens this week as the 2013 psychological thriller The Fall is added to Netflix.The actress played detective Stella Gibson in the series and was became a fan favourite of the show's cast.Gillian was born August 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois which makes The Fall star 52.She was launched into the spotlight in her breakout role as Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files.Gillian concluded her role as the initial run of the show ended in 2001.Talking to Variety, Gillian reflected on how the show launched her career.She said: "I was so green at the beginning, and so young, and I was just exploring."I showed up and hit my mark and learned my lines and was pulled