Gillian Anderson was born in 1968 in Chicago, Illinois. Her family moved a short time later to Puerto Rico for a little over a year before moving to London, England. When she was 11 her family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the age of 17, Gillian Anderson began acting, and when she was 22 she moved to New York. At 24 years of age, Anderson was cast as Dana Scully in the X-Files.
