Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 400th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most admired stage and screen

actresses of her generation.

She first burst into the public's consciousness 28 years ago on the X-Files, Chris Carter's

groundbreaking sci-fi drama for Fox, playing FBI agent Dana Scully, a young woman with

a medical degree and a graduate degree in physics, who, with her partner, David Ducovny's

agent Fox Mulder, investigates unsolved cases of paranormal phenomena.

She played Scully, who the New York Times described as quote, one of the coolest most competent

professional women ever portrayed on television, closed quote, over the course of an initial

run of nine seasons, then two movie spin-offs and two revival seasons, picking up an Emmy,

a Golden Globe Award, and a Saga Award along the way.

In between she has also shined in indie films like The House of Murth and The Last King

of Scotland, and on TV programs including Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Fall, Hannibal,

American Gods, and Sex Education.

But never has she received more glowing notices than she did for her portrayal of British

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the fourth season of the Netflix drama series The Crown,

for which she has already won a Golden Globe Award, a Saga Award, and a Critics Choice

Award, and for which she is nominated for and heavily favored to win the Best Supporting

Actress in a Drama Series Emmy Award on September 19th.

The Great, Jillian Anderson.

Over the course of our conversation, the 53-year-old and I discuss the conflicted feelings she

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