I really admire celebrities who know exactly what to do with their popularity. No year passes without charities organized by ‘The Official Gillian Anderson Website’. She’s supporting young African musicians, theatres, people suffering from...
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I really admire celebrities who know exactly what to do with their popularity. No year passes without charities organized by ‘The Official Gillian Anderson Website’. She’s supporting young African musicians, theatres, people suffering from Neurofibromatosis, organizations that fight against animal cruelty and the list goes on... Just visit her website. (http://www.gilliananderson.ws)

As for her work:
Gillian Anderson breathed so much life into her FBI agent character that to most people - no matter what she does - she will remain 'Dana Scully'. This is why some critics pigeonhole her as a simple TV star, though her talents are not restricted to this role. Sure, I also got to “know” and admire her talents on ‘The X-Files’, but it doesn’t mean that’s all she can ever be. Most people forget about her theatre roles, movie appearances or that she gave her voice to ‘Moro’, the wolf-god on the anime ‘Princess Mononoke’.
She IS busy working on other projects, she’s just isn’t in the mainstream. I’m sure that if she wanted to, she could play in Hollywood movies too, but looks like she has other plans. It is not a surprise considering she originally wanted to be a theatre actress and her “detour” with the X-Files kept her from that for much longer than she expected. I believe – after trying to please millions of X-Files fans - she just wants some peace and quiet and a chance to show those who are interested that she’s got more in her than ‘Agent Dana Scully, FBI’.

I wish her good luck in that and gladly follow her trail of work to see what else she has in mind for us.