Cast: Gillian Anderson

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gillian Anderson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Direction Benedict Andrews · Nick Wickham

Cast Gillian Anderson · Vanessa Kirby · Ben Foster · Corey Johnson

Synopsis As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

7.9

23 votes

7.9

23 votes

The Crown (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Morgan · Stephen Daldry · Philip Martin · Julian Jarrold

Cast Claire Foy · Matt Smith · John Lithgow · Olivia Colman

Synopsis TV Series (2016-Present Day). 4 Seasons. 40 Episodes. “The Crown” tells the story of two of the most famous addresses in the world — Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street — and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the...

7.7

11K votes

7.7

11K votes

Hannibal (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 47 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Fuller · Michael Rymer · Guillermo Navarro · Vincenzo Natali

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Hugh Dancy · Laurence Fishburne · Caroline Dhavernas

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2015). 3 Seasons. 39 Episodes. Will Graham is a gifted criminal profiler who is on the hunt for a serial killer with the FBI. Graham's unique way of thinking gives him the astonishing ability to empathize with anyone...

7.4

13K votes

7.4

13K votes

The Fall (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Allan Cubitt · Jakob Verbruggen

Cast Gillian Anderson · Jamie Dornan · Archie Panjabi · Séainín Brennan

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2016). 3 Seasons. 17 Episodes. In this psychological thriller set in Northern Ireland, Gillian Anderson stars as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson who is brought in from the London Metropolitan Police to help catch the killer when a murder...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

Sex Education (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurie Nunn · Kate Herron · Ben Taylor · Alice Seabright

Cast Asa Butterfield · Ncuti Gatwa · Emma Mackey · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis Sex Education (TV Series) (2019) follows Otis Milburn, a socially awkward teenager whose mother is a sex therapist. Despite his lack of experience, Otis teams up with rebellious Maeve Wiley to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at their...

7.3

14K votes

7.3

14K votes

Bleak House (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Justin Chadwick · Susanna White

Cast Anna Maxwell Martin · Denis Lawson · Gillian Anderson · Charles Dance

Synopsis TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn, who seeks to uncover it. The generous John Jarndyce, struggling...

7.3

305 votes

7.3

305 votes

The X-Files (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Chris Carter · Kim Manners · Rob Bowman · David Nutter

Cast Gillian Anderson · David Duchovny · Mitch Pileggi · Robert Patrick

Synopsis TV Series (1993-2018). 11 Seasons. 218 Episodes. FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are not the same at all. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal while Scully is not. Together, they investigate paranormal cases which takes them all...

7.2

65K votes

7.2

65K votes

War and Peace (TV Miniseries)

2016 · Series · 379 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Harper

Cast Lily James · Paul Dano · James Norton · Aneurin Barnard

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2016). 6 Episodes. A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky.

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Great (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 50 min. · Australia

Direction Tony McNamara · Matt Shakman

Cast Elle Fanning · Nicholas Hoult · Sacha Dhawan · Charity Wakefield

Synopsis TV Series (2020-). 2 Seasons. The series charts the rise to power of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) and her explosive relationship with husband Peter (Nicholas Hoult), the emperor of Russia.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Direction Marc Munden

Cast Chris O'Dowd · Romola Garai · Amanda Hale · Shirley Henderson

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 4 Episodes. Set in 1870s London, this is a tale of love, lust, desire and revenge. This is a bold four-part adaptation of The Crimson Petal And The White adapted from Michel Faber's best selling novel by...

7.1

757 votes

7.1

757 votes

Great Expectations (TV Miniseries)

2011 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Kirk

Cast Douglas Booth · Gillian Anderson · Ray Winstone · Vanessa Kirby

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 3 Episodes. In the 1810s orphan boy Pip Pirrup lives on the Kent marshes with his shrewish sister and her kindly husband,farrier Joe Gargery. On Christmas eve,whilst visiting his parents' grave, he is confronted by an escaped...

7.1

573 votes

7.1

573 votes

The Last King of Scotland

2006 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Macdonald

Cast Forest Whitaker · James McAvoy · Kerry Washington · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis The Last King of Scotland (2006) follows Nicholas Garrigan, a young Scottish doctor seeking adventure, who travels to Uganda in the 1970s. He becomes the personal physician to the charismatic but increasingly volatile dictator, Idi Amin. Initially drawn to Amin's...

7.1

29K votes

7.1

29K votes

Any Human Heart (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Samuels

Cast Jim Broadbent · Matthew Macfadyen · Sam Claflin · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 4 episodes. A TV miniseries adaptation of William Boyd's novel. A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess...

7.1

106 votes

7.1

106 votes

American Gods (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Fuller · Michael Green · David Slade · Adam Kane

Cast Ricky Whittle · Ian McShane · Emily Browning · Pablo Schreiber

Synopsis American Gods (TV Series) (2017) follows Shadow Moon, an ex-convict who becomes entangled in a hidden war between ancient deities and modern gods after meeting the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday. As they journey across America, Shadow encounters mythological beings struggling for...

6.7

6K votes

6.7

6K votes

White Bird: A Wonder Story

2023 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Marc Forster

Cast Ariella Glaser · Orlando Schwerdt · Helen Mirren · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis A young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

6.6

221 votes

6.6

221 votes

The Mighty Celt

2005 · Movie · 84 min. · Ireland

Direction Pearse Elliott

Cast Gillian Anderson · Robert Carlyle · Alison Finnegan · Bernard Manning

Synopsis Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal's favorite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

Sister

2012 · Movie · 97 min. · Switzerland

Direction Ursula Meier

Cast Kacey Mottet Klein · Léa Seydoux · Martin Compston · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis Sister is the tale of 12-year-old Simon, who lives alone with his sister Louise in a bleak, industrial town at the foot of an exclusive Swiss ski resort. Every day during the winter Simon takes a small cable car up...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Direction Michael Winterbottom

Cast Steve Coogan · Rob Brydon · Naomie Harris · Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, "Tristram Shandy", a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. Then into a group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt it. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses....

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Sold

2016 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Jeffrey D. Brown

Cast Gillian Anderson · David Arquette · Priyanka Bose · Tilotama Shome

Synopsis A girl risks everything for freedom after being trafficked from her mountain village in Nepal to a brothel in India.

6.4

50 votes

6.4

50 votes

The House of Mirth

2000 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Davies

Cast Gillian Anderson · Dan Aykroyd · Anthony LaPaglia · Laura Linney

Synopsis A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes