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Diane Arbus, who certainly knew a thing or two about risk-taking, once said, “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” Judging from the bold choices Gillian Anderson has made as an actress, she also lives by this credo.
In the course of her almost 30-year career, Anderson has been fearless and determined in her pursuit of difficult, demanding roles. She refuses to be pigeon-holed; it would have been easy and safe to have dined out on agent Dana Scully for the rest of her career and to have coasted: another series, tent-pole movies, vanity projects.
Instead, she chose Arbus’ route. In the past 10 years, on stage and television, Anderson has tackled such challenging roles as Nora in “A Doll’s House,” Ms. Havisham in “Great Expectations,” Lady Dedlock in “Bleak House” and Anna Pavlova Scherer in “War & Peace.”