Gillian Anderson has been in television shows.
Dana Scully is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files , played by Gillian Anderson . Gillian Anderson . Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the long-running and widely popular series The X-Files , ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies ' film The House of Mirth ( 2000 ) , and DSI Stella Gibson on the BBC crime drama television series The Fall . The Fall is a British-Irish crime drama television series filmed and set in Northern Ireland . The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter , which originally aired from September 10 , 1993 to May 19 , 2002 on Fox .