Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson Has a Tumblr, and It Is Perfection

Gillian Anderson is, in many ways (including “all of them”), a delight. And yet somehow she has managed to out-delight herself by setting up her own Tumblr. I shit you not, it’s called Chewie’s Girlfriend. Set up to promote her appearance as Blanche DuBois in the currently running Benedict Andrews production of A Streetcar Named…

io9 James Whitbrook May 23

Everyone’s on Board for Another Season of The X-Files

If the show does come back, the first episode had better just be Chris Carter apologizing for that finale for an hour. Fox chairman and CEO Dana Walden told reporters that the network has been in talks with Carter, Gillian Anderson, and David Duchovny for an eleventh season of The X-Files. “I believe everyone is…

Television Katharine Trendacosta May 16

Fox Didn’t Want to Pay Gillian Anderson the Same as Her Male Co-Star and That’s Bullshit

Gillian Anderson has been pretty public about her fight to get paid the same amount as David Duchovny for her work on The X-Files. She’s clearly a badass. To Fox, though, I have to say: Are you fucking kidding me? Earlier this month, Anderson told the Hollywood Reporter that “There’s no point in dealing with…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jan 22

Fox Wants To Bring Back The X-Files, David Duchovny And Gillian Anderson

Fox has confirmed that it is in talks to revive its iconic supernatural horror procedural, The X-Files. Speaking Saturday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, Fox TV executives Dana Walden and Gary Newman said they’ve been in talks not only with series creator Chris Carter, but stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, about…

Television Robbie Gonzalez Jan 18

Hear Gillian Anderson Read From Her New Novel A Vision Of Fire!

X-Files star Gillian Anderson has co-written her first novel, A Vision of Fire, and we’ve got an exclusive taste of the audiobook, read by Anderson. Plus glimpses of some early cover concepts that were more X-Files-oriented. That’s just one of the books from Simon & Schuster’s new imprint Simon451. We talked to senior editor Sarah…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 7

This Is One Of The Best Months Ever For Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

No kidding. This month is just crushingly incredible, when it comes to new science fiction and fantasy books. Including a new William Gibson, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary sequel, Gillian Anderson’s science fiction novel, Ann Rice’s new Lestat book, new Chuck Palahniuk, and so much more. Here are 27 must-read titles. The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1

Watch Jamie Dornan Before He Gets Huge In ‘The Fall’

If you’re done binging on the incredible second season of Orange Is the New Black, then we’ve got the perfect dessert. Check out the first season of the BBC show The Fall, a spooky drama starring X-Files star Gillian Anderson and Fifty Shades of Grey frontman Jamie Dornan. After a series of murders scare the…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky Jul 5

X-Files actress Gillian Anderson is writing a series of scifi novels

Gillian Anderson delighted us for years as the skeptical Agent Scully on The X-Files, and now she wants to return to the genre that made her famous, this time as an author. However, the main character in her upcoming book series sounds tailor-made for Anderson as an actress. Anderson told Entertainment Weekly that she’s working…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jan 16

Mulder and Scully returned for an awkward conversation at Comic-Con

At The X-Files panel at this past weekend’s New York Comic-Con, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were asked to do a little improv as Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, respectively. Duchovny took immediate charge, making it a phone call and making it weird. [Via Topless Robot]

io9 Rob Bricken Oct 14

Mulder and Scully reveal the dire consequences of hate sperm in this ridiculous X-Files episode

The X-Files had some high and lows during its 9-season run, but man, those lows were abysmal. Trying to figure out the Worst Episode Ever of The X-Files is as big a mystery as most of the X-Files themselves. Still, if you had to pick, you probably couldn’t do much worse than “Fight Club,” a…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 15

And Now, Every Single Time Dana Scully Says “Oh My God” in The X-Files

Have you ever noticed that Gillian Anderson says “oh my God,” and various permutations of the phrase, throughout most of The X-Files? Well, you won’t miss it now. Johnny Lloyd Rollins has edited together all of Scully’s audible gasps of disbelief into one giant OMG video. Thanks for pointing this out, Babylost! https://gizmodo.com/pop-culture-supercut-baby-got-back-5934791

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 15

Did Gillian Anderson just confirm X-Files 3 for 2012?

Remember when David Duchovny said way back when that a third X-Files movie was in the works? Now his co-star Gillian Anderson seems to be following suit. https://gizmodo.com/david-duchovny-confirms-that-x-files-3-script-is-in-the-5683473 In an interview with Australian television presenter Kylie Speer, Anderson mentioned that a new movie was being prepped for next year. Tweeted Speer, “Just interviewed Gillian Anderson…she…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5

15 melodious and magnificent musical fembots

Science fiction, pop music, and reality are chock full o’ artificial intelligences that can carry a tune. Here’s an entire roster of fantastic singing she-bots who can croon circles around The Rock-A-Fire Explosion. Björk— All Is Full Of Love In this iconic video by music video director Chris Cunningham, Iceland’s de facto ambassador goes mechanical…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 31

This Controversial Climate Change Ad Made Sony Drop its Sponsorship

They’d obviously spunked a lotta money on the ad, which features a Gillian Anderson voiceover and appearance from famous English footballer/soccer-player Peter Crouch, but when it illustrates exploding kiddies it’s no surprise that Sony wanted nothing to do with it. Made to draw attention to the climate change day October 10th, the 10:10 advert riled…

Climate Change Kat Hannaford Oct 7

X-Files Next For Reboot Treatment?

Gillian Anderson has been talking about appearing in a third X-Files movie, but does that mean that we should expect more of I Want To Believe’s Scully/Mulder love story? Possibly not, if a particular rumor turns out to be true. Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Anderson’s comments to the effect that we can expect a…

Movies Graeme McMillan Aug 22

X-Files Star Joins Doctor Who. The Fanfic Almost Writes Itself!

The ever-reliable British tabloids are reporting that X-Files diva Gillian Anderson is set to join the cast of Doctor Who in 2010… playing a character I really thought was gone for good. Possibly true spoilers… The Daily Express is reporting that Anderson will appear in new Doctor Matt Smith’s first season, and she’ll be playing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 23

X-Files Stars Are Old, Moany

You may find it hard to be interested in the new X-Files movie, I Want To Believe, but apparently that’s nothing compared with the cast’s problems. Given the chance to promote the movie in interviews, it seems as if the two stars would rather complain about how crappy it was making it in the first…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 14

X-Files 2 Plot Revealed!

The new X-Files movie will tackle themes of religion, weird experiments, and things that make you go eww. The back-cover blurb for the movie’s novelization went online and finally explained just why the movie is called I Want To Believe. Not to mention clearing up all of those little clues, like the picture of Mulder…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 18

The Complete X-Files on The X-Files

The long-awaited X-Files sequel (as yet unnamed) will be in theaters this summer, and even though it’ll have been six years since X-Files fans have seen anything new, there’s already a lot of excitement buzzing around this movie. Will they find the truth? Will they make a believer out of skeptics? Will they finally just…

io9 Kevin Kelly Mar 31