FrameThrower · Actors · Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson
4 films · 321 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2000–2024
Born 9 August 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gillian Leigh Anderson OBE is an American actress, writer, and activist. She is best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the sci-fi series The X-Files (1993–2002; 2016–2018), Lily Bart in the drama film The House of Mirth (2000), DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama series The Fall (2013–2016), Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023), and Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of the Netflix drama series The Crown (2020). She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Born in Chicago, Anderson was raised first in London and then in Grand Rapids, Michigan.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 321 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2000–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama1996
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series1997
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series1996
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series1997
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire2016
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2018
- British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film2000
- Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television1997
- Theatre World Award1991
- Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 321 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gillian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Gillian takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 321 frames from Gillian Anderson's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.