List of awards and nominations received by Gillian Anderson

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Gillian Anderson.

Anderson, who achieved critical acclaim for starring as Dana Scully in The X-Files, is a Primetime Emmy Award winning actress. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award in 1997. She was nominated another three times for this role. In 2006, She was nominated Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Lady Dedlock in Bleak House and most recently, won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her turn as Margaret Thatcher on The Crown. Anderson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1997 for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files and again in 2021 for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Movie (The Crown). She was nominated another three times for the role and once more in the Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Bleak House. She won three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (in 1996, 1997 and 2021), one for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (in 2021) and was nominated total of eleven times.

Anderson was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award twice: in 2006, as Best Actress on Television for Bleak House and in 2011, for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her portrayal of Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart. For her portrayal of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth (2000) Anderson won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress.

Anderson has also received accolades for her stage performances. She won the Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer for Absent Friends (1991). She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in Ibsen's A Doll's House (2009). For her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014, 2016) she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and earned her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2019, she received her third Laurence Olivier Award nomination for portraying Margo Channing in the stage production of All About Eve.

In 2016, Anderson was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama. In 2018, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.