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Gillian Anderson: New York
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Gillian Anderson attended school in Fountain Elementary and City High in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Upon graduation, she went to the Goodman Theatre School of DePaul University, Chicago. Joined a summer program at the National Theatre of Great Britain at Cornell University, New York. Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
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The new millennium saw Gillian Anderson star as ravishing New York socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film version of Edith Wharton's novel, the romantic drama The House of Mirth (alongside Dan Aykroyd). On stage, Gillian made her West End debut with the play “What the Night Is For” (2003-2004) at the Comedy Theatre in London and then performed in “The Sweetest Swing in Baseball” (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London.
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WGBH TV BOSTON GILLIAN ANDERSON -- Gillian Anderson hosts the first season of the new MASTERPIECE CLASSIC, premiering Sunday, January 13 on PBS. MASTERPIECE audiences know Anderson from her acclaimed performance in 2006's Bleak. (PRNewsFoto/WGBH TV Boston, Kim Knott) http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071210/NEM032 12/10/2007
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Anderson moved to New York when she was 22 years old. She began her career in Alan Ayckbourn's play, Absent Friends, at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Anderson played alongside Brenda Blethyn. For her role in the play, Anderson won the 1990-91 Theatre World "Newcomer" Award. Her next theatrical role was in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. To support herself when she started her career, Anderson worked as a waitress.
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Upon graduating from high school in 1986, Anderson went on to study acting at DePaul University’s Goodman Theater in Chicago. After her freshman year at the university, Anderson was invited to attend a summer workshop in Ithaca, NY, run by the National Theatre of Great Britain. She went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from DePaul and headed to New York to pursue a career in acting. Landing her first break shortly after arriving in the Big Apple, Anderson was cast in the off-Broadway play, “Absent Friends.†Though fairly new to the New York stage, she quickly garnered attention for her performance and was honored with a Theater World Award in 1991. Anderson went on to appear in a New Haven, CT production of “The Philanthropist†and made her feature film debut in “The Turning†(1992).
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Anderson found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions, even serving as a student intern at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre. She had wanted to be a marine biologist, but began acting instead at 17, with a few roles in various community theatre productions. Anderson attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago (formerly the Goodman School of Drama), where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990. She ... studied at the National Theatre of Great Britain at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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