You may only know her as Dana Scully from “The X-Files,” but Gillian Anderson has several other big-screen appearances under her belt. In 2006 she starred alongside James McAvoy in “The Last King of Scotland,” and later this year she will be seen in “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.”According to Variety, Anderson is also set to produce and star in a biopic of renowned journalist Martha Gellhorn, a female war correspondent who covered major world conflicts, including the Spanish Civil War and Vietnam. She was also married to Ernest Hemingway.
Anderson acquired the rights to Caroline Moorehead’s biography “Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life” via her production company Fiddlehead Prods. Sharman Macdonald is writing the script.
Anderson will next be seen alongside David Duchovny in “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” which opens July 25, 2008. She also recently wrapped filming for Duncan Ward’s “Boogie Woogie.”
As a die-hard “X-Files” fan, I’m glad to see Anderson is looking at more work on the big screen. I always thought she had the skills to go beyond Dana Scully and take on other roles.