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Gillian Anderson: Puerto Rico
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Gillian Anderson was born in Chicago and raised in Puerto Rico, then London, then Grand Rapids, Michigan. In junior high school, she tried very hard to shed her European accent, but by high school she was more interested in standing out than fitting in. Sporting a dyed Mohawk hairdo and a nose ring, wearing combat boots and usually cloaked in black, she was voted her school's "most bizarre girl," and she was arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering school grounds. When she was not acting up, she was acting; she played Juliet in her high school production of Romeo and Juliet, and decided on that balcony set, she would be an actress.
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Gillian Leigh Anderson was born August 9, 1968 in Chicago but soon after her birth her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London. When she was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended City Middle/High School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities. With her English accent and background, she felt out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, dyed her hair various colors, and was once arrested for gluing the locks of the school closed. She found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990
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Gillian Leigh Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 9, 1968. Soon after her birth, the family relocated to Puerto Rico for 15 months and then moved to England. Gillian spent the next 9 years of her childhood growing up in London's North End - first in Stamford Hill and later in Crouch End - while her father Edward studied film production at the London School of Film Technique in Covent Garden for 2 years. Eventually the family moved
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On August 9, 1968, Gillian Leigh Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to film post-production manager Edward and computer analyst Rosemary. The oldest child of the family, Gillian has two younger siblings: sister Zoe Anderson (actress) and brother Aaron Anderson (suffers from neurofibromatosis). With her family, Gillian moved to Puerto Rico and then to Crouch End in London before moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended school.
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Anderson was born in Chicago to Edward and Rosemary Anderson. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London so her father could attend the London Film School. When Anderson was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities; she graduated in 1986. At some point after the move to America, her father started a post-production company.
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