Gillian Anderson Moves from Timeless Dramas to Broad Comedy
By Jenelle Riley
October 27, 2011
Backstage.com

Gillian Anderson has battled alien invaders, faced shadowy conspiracies, and played some of the most memorable women in literature. So, what intimidates her? Watching herself onscreen. "The first time I see something I'm in, it's very hard for me," she admits. "I've got one thing on my mind and one thing only: picking apart my performance."

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Photos of Gillian as she arrives on the red carpet for the BFI 2011 London Film Festival Awards at St Luke's in east London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.

She wore William Vintage 1960 Ceil Chapman haute couture and fine jewels from Adler.

The Best Film award, was chaired by John Madden who presented the award with fellow judge Gillian Anderson who said, "We did have to battle it out over the table. One hopes that the winner has an element of the sublime in it that is above and beyond what some of the others have."

Best Film Winner: We Need To Talk About Kevin

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Gillian has donated her autographed pair of black Cobian platform flip flops to the Small Steps Project Celebrity Shoe Auction. (Includes a signed photo!)

Small Steps Project is a humanitarian organisation and registered charity dedicated to supporting the children living on rubbish dumps around the world and raising awareness of the unacceptable hardships faced by them through film. They deliver shoes and hygiene kits to enable children to take small steps off rubbish dumps and to protect them while they are working there.

They're also auctioning shoes from Colin Firth, Chris Noth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jamie Lee Curtis, Helen Mirren, Rachel Weisz, Simon Pegg, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Ricky Gervais, Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand, Ralph Fiennes, Boy George, Will Ferrell, and many others!

"My father told me I should go into word processing"

By Helen Lewis-Hasteley
New Statesman
October 18, 2011

Actor Gillian Anderson on slapstick, motherhood and the perils of Googling yourself.

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By Chris Fenn
Guardian.co.uk
October 14, 2011

Dear Me: celebrity letters to their younger selves - interactive

Don't do drugs, stop hating your thighs, buy shares in Google: from the book Dear Me, 10 celebrities (including Gillian) write letters to their 16-year-old selves with some choice words of advice.

"In Dear Me, 75 of the world's favourite actors, musicians, movie stars, writers and celebrities, have written a letter to their 16-year-old selves. With a foreword by JK Rowling and contributors ranging from Gillian Anderson, Hugh Jackman and Gene Hackman through to Stephen King and Jodi Picoult, this could be a great gift for a teenager who needs a little wisdom, through to someone looking back on their younger years."

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IBG's “A Conversation with Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny” DVD has completed clearance and will be shipping by the end of the month!

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Switching off the spotlight
By Clarke Hayes
Coffee House, The Spectator Blog

Having tea with Gillian Anderson is a thoroughly pleasant business — a splash of muted glamour in a fairly drab London autumn. I thoroughly recommend it, as a more engaging companion it would be a challenge to find.

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Gillian attended the "360" premiere at the 55th BFI London Film Festival in Leicester Square, London yesterday.

She wore a black vintage Dior gown from William Vintage and sparkling diamond droplet earrings from Ritz Fine Jewellery.

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This much I know: Gillian Anderson
The actor, 43, on Britishness, growing older and the importance of being wrong

By Shahesta Shaitly
The Observer
Saturday 8 October 2011

The older you get the less memory you have. I have trouble differentiating between what are childhood memories and what I may have seen in a photograph or been told about by my mum. Do I really remember lying in a hammock on a beach in Puerto Rico when I was a year old?

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Correction: The movie critic of the New York Times mentioned in the interview was not Frank Rich. It was Stephen Holden.

Johnny English Reborn Premiere in London, October 3.

ITV - Daybreak Show in London, October 4.

The 55th British Film Institute London Film Festival runs October 12 through 27.

The Best Film Award shortlist will be judged by directors John Madden and Asif Kapadia, actress Gillian Anderson, producer Tracey Seaward, writer Andrew O'Hagan and filmmaker and artist Sam Taylor Wood.