Gillian Anderson has publicly identified as pansexual, telling interviewer Nikki Gemmell in a profile for The Australian that “in my younger years, I was in relationships with women.” The revelation, published Thursday, comes as the two-time Emmy winner promotes “More,” her follow-up collection of anonymous submissions from women about their sexual fantasies.
Ms. Anderson has spoken publicly about relationships with women for more than a decade — she told Out magazine in 2012 that she’d had a long relationship with a woman in high school — but her remarks last month to the Sunday Times were among her most specific yet. She described a teenage romance with an older girl in Grand Rapids, Michigan, saying: “It felt secretive and illicit and wrong and we had to hide.”
Ms. Anderson, 58, said she never identified as gay at the time because she had also dated boys, and that she didn’t have “the language” to describe her feelings toward women until later in life.
The actress, best known for playing FBI Agent Dana Scully in “The X-Files” and sex therapist Jean Milburn on Netflix’s “Sex Education,” has been romantically linked to “The Crown” screenwriter Peter Morgan since 2016, though the pair split in 2020 before reportedly reconciling; neither has publicly confirmed the relationship. She has been married twice, to Clyde Klotz and Julian Ozanne, and has three children.
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