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About Gillian Butler

Gillian Leigh Anderson ( JIL-ee-ən; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress and writer. She received international fame for starring as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the Fox science fiction mystery series The X-Files (1993–2002; 2016–2018), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for the role. Her other credits include socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall (2013–2016), sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education (2019–2023), and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown (2020), for which she earned her second Golden Globe.

Born in Chicago, Anderson grew up in North London in the UK and Grand Rapids, Michigan. She graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, then moved to New York City to further her acting career. After beginning her career on stage, she achieved international recognition for her role in The X-Files (1993–2002). She reprised her role in the films The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) as well as a revival series from 2016 to 2018. Her film roles include in The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Shadow Dancer (2012), Viceroy's House (2017) and Tron: Ares (2025), with further television work playing Lady Dedlock in Bleak House (2005), Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart (2010), Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2011), Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier in Hannibal (2013–2015), and Media in American Gods (2017).

Aside from film and television, Anderson has taken to the stage and received awards and critical acclaim. Her stage work includes Absent Friends (1991), for which she won a Theatre World Award for…

Gillian Butler writes about Cognitive therapy, Anxiety, Bashfulness, Social phobia, Psychology, and Social interaction. Their best-known work is Overcoming social anxiety and shyness: a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques.

On FindMyTBR we track 2 books by Gillian Butler, 1 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Psychology : A Very Short Introduction. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.