Claim: Gillian Anderson was a cast of The X- Files television show as an FBI special agent.
Evidence: Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the long-running and widely popular series The X-Files , ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies ' film The House of Mirth -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , and DSI Stella Gibson on the BBC crime drama television series The Fall.
Dana Scully is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files , played by Gillian Anderson.