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Gillian Anderson, Variety Icon Awardee, on Playing Radical Women and What She’s ‘Rebelled Against’ in Hollywood
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.
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Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis receive Outstanding Performer Of The Year award at SBIFF
King Richard stars Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis were honored Sunday at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, sharing the Outstanding Performer Of The Year award for their outings in the biographical drama.Smith, 53, donned a black suit with purple trimming and a maroon turtleneck with black shoes in the outing at The Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California.Ellis, 53, donned a patterned green gown with her hair in braids, dangling earrings and green sandal heels. The latest:King Richard stars Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis, both 53, were honored Sunday at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at The Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, sharing the Outstanding Performer Of The Year award Smith and Ellis in the film portrayed the roles of Richard and Oracene 'Brandy' Williams, the parents of tennis phenoms Venus and Serena Williams, who helped their daughters become world class athletes.The festival's executive director Roger Durling said in a statement in November: 'We're so excited to be able to salute the incomparable Will Smith and the revelatory Aunjanue Ellis with this award.

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