Gillian Anderson An online nickname for Gillian Anderson and words written on the outside of the Piper Maru is also Drop Dead Red. Gillian Anderson plays the computer's voice in the computer game Hellbender. Gillian Anderson said she would have become a marine biologist if she was not an actress. Gillian Anderson actually put a cricket in her mouth (but did not swallow) during the filming of Humbug. Less than a week before the shooting of One Breath Gillian had undergone a cesarean section. As an inside joke alluding to Gillian Anderson's real-life pregnancy, Scully is seen buying pickles and ice cream in the supermarket scene in Duane Barry. Gillian Anderson discussed her loss of privacy and fear of X-Files fans in the magazine McCalls. Gillian Anderson was in Washington, D.C in 1996, petitioning Congress to provide funds to support research for Neurofibromatosis, which her brother suffers from. Gillian Anderson is allergic to cats (which made for a lot of fun while filming the cat-infested climax to "Teso Dos Bichos"). Gillian Anderson narrated the Discovery Channel's Spies Above, an absorbing and undeniably rare look inside the classified world of spy surveillance and information-gathering from space. Gillian Anderson described the series' shooting schedule to the Los Angeles Times as "a death sentence". Gillian Anderson is the oldest of three children. Anderson's father, Edward, attended the prestigious London Film Schoo. In her youth Anderson wore a ring in her nose and dyed her hair blue, purple and black. While she struggled to support herself as an actress Anderson worked as a waitress. After replacing Mary-Louise Parker who abandoned the play to take a role in the movie Grand Canyon two weeks into rehearsal, Anderson won a Theatre World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway production of Absent Friends. Anderson ultimately settled in Hollywood after she became involved with another actor in the play The Philanthropist, followed him to the West Coast, and eventually moved in with him. Anderson swore she would never work in television, but after being out of work for almost a year she began auditioning. Her first TV role was Fox's Class of '96. The X-Files was the only pilot for which she auditioned in 1993. She learned that she had landed The X-Files part the same day her final unemployment check came. Steven Williams (aka Mr. X) owned the condominium she leased when she relocated to Vancouver for the long, arduous months of filming The X-Files. Anderson's daughter, Piper, was delivered by cesarean section on September 25, 1994, two days overdue. Anderson toook 10 days of maternity leave before returning to work on the series. Anderson's father, Edward, runs a movie postproduction company and her mother, Rosemary, is a computer analyst. Unlike her skeptical X-Files character, she has "a basic belief in the paranormal." A Native American told Anderson and her husband that their house in Vancouver was haunted by "souls in unrest". He eventually cleansed the house with an Indian purification ritual. Anderson and her husband married by a Buddhist priest at the 17th hole of a Hawaiian golf course.