Gillian Anderson: THE ULTIMATE COMEBACK QUEEN!

The Crown star is giving her best performance yet

When Gillian Anderson burst onto the acting scene in the 1990s as FBI agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, Hollywood agreed that a star was born.

Her poster was on the bedroom walls of teenage boys around the world, and she quickly became a pop culture icon – a mantle the 52-year-old still holds to this day.

So Tinseltown executives and fans were equally surprised when she stepped out of the spotlight once her turn in the hit sci-fi series ended.

TROUBLE WITH FAME

The actress, who auditioned for the show when she was 24, recently admitted to TV WEEK that she loathed the moviemaking machine.

“I had a complicated relationship with becoming so famous so young, and seeing the worst part of what the industry can be,” she says. “I really hated it and wanted to get away.”