Gillian Anderson spent nearly three decades being Dana Scully to the entire world.
At 58, the actress decided to talk about a part of her life that she had kept private: she identifies as pansexual and, as a teenager, had a secret relationship with an older female classmate. It isn’t the first time she has mentioned it — she had already given similar hints in 2012 — but this time she said it without beating around the bush, like someone finally letting go of something she had been carrying for a long time.
Today, Anderson is in a relationship with Peter Morgan, the creator of “The Crown”, and is the mother of three children from previous relationships. Between television series, activism, and a book about female sexual fantasies, the woman behind television’s coldest agent turned out to have a story much more complex than any script could have written for her.