Editing Gillian Anderson (section)

==Early life==
Gillian Leigh Anderson was born in [[Chicago]] on August 9, 1968,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Monitor|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=August 9, 2013|issue=1271|pages=22}}</ref> the daughter of computer analyst and [[neurofibromatosis]] support group leader Rosemary "Posie" Alyce (née Lane)<ref>{{cite web |title=Louise Lane (March 2, 2008) Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?n=louise-b-lane&pid=105732294 |website=[[Greenwich Time (newspaper)|Greenwich Time]] |publisher=legacy.com |access-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126190006/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?n=louise-b-lane&pid=105732294 |archive-date=2021-01-26 |language=en |date=March 16, 2008}}</ref><ref name="History of Senior Scouting Programs of the BSA">{{cite web |title=Explorer Program Helps |url=http://www.seniorscoutinghistory.org/archive/EPH/EPH-66SepOct.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.seniorscoutinghistory.org/archive/EPH/EPH-66SepOct.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=Boy Scouts of America |page=13 |date=September–October 1966 |quote=Explorer Post 29, American Cyanamid Company. Stamford, Conn. Leslie C. Lane, Jr., Institutional Representative. 19 Explorers.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lane |first1=Leslie C. Jr. |title=patent: Method Of Coded Data Storage By Means Of Coded Inks In Which The Code Components Have Particular Absorption Bands In The Infrared |url=https://uspto.report/patent/grant/3566120 |website=USPTO.report |access-date=26 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref><!-- <ref>{{cite web |title=Patent: US2417441A - Production of guanidine salts |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US2417441A/en |language=en |date=3 July 1943 |quote=Inventor: Joseph H Paden; Leslie C Lane Jr;}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Louise Lane, March 2, 2008, Obituary & Funeral, Rockford, MI |url=https://www.lifestorynet.com/obituaries/louise-lane.33975 |website=lifestorynet.com |access-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126190009/https://www.lifestorynet.com/obituaries/louise-lane.33975 |archive-date=2021-01-26 |language=en |date=26 January 2021}}</ref> --> and film editing company owner Homer Edward "Ed" Anderson III.<ref name="filmreference">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/1/Gillian-Anderson.html|title=Gillian Anderson Biography (1968–)|publisher=Filmreference.com|access-date=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Grand Rapids Press" >{{cite web|url=https://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/07_09/07grandrapids.shtml|title=Charity, celebrity blend well, actress says|last=Merrell|first=Sue|work=The Grand Rapids Press|publisher=gilliananderson.ws|date=May 18, 2007|access-date=September 13, 2010}}</ref> Soon after her birth, her parents moved to [[Puerto Rico]] for 15 months before relocating to the [[United Kingdom]] so her father could attend the [[London Film School]] in [[London]].<ref name="BioYahoo">{{cite web|title=Biography: Gillian Anderson|publisher=Yahoo!|url=https://celebrity.yahoo.com/gillian-anderson/?nf=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126101826/https://celebrity.yahoo.com/gillian-anderson/?nf=1|archive-date=November 26, 2015}}</ref> She lived in [[Crouch End]] and [[Harringay]],<ref name="ES2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/gillian-anderson-self-destruction-is-my-default-mode-9897489.html|title=Gillian Anderson: Self destruction is my default mode|last=Curtis|first=Nick|date=December 3, 2014|work=[[London Evening Standard]]|access-date=August 26, 2015}}</ref> and attended [[Coleridge Primary School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/96_97/96okweekly.shtml|title=X-Rated Agents|access-date=October 16, 2015|work=[[OK!]]|date=September 29, 1996}}</ref> When she was 11 years old, her family returned to the US and settled in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/gillian-anderson-just-dont-ask-her-about-aliens-128348.html|title=Gillian Anderson: Just don't ask her about aliens|last=Thompson|first=Jonathan|access-date=October 30, 2015|work=[[The Independent]]|date=November 17, 2002}}</ref> maintaining an apartment in London and spending their summers there.<ref name="NPR"/> Having always intended to return to London, she later moved there in 2002.<ref name=IndieW15>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/gillian-anderson-on-owning-feminine-sexuality-in-the-fall-20150116|title=Gillian Anderson on Owning Feminine Sexuality in ''The Fall''|date=January 16, 2015|last=Shannon Miller|first=Liz|work=[[Indiewire]]|access-date=October 21, 2015}}</ref> In Grand Rapids, she attended Fountain Elementary and [[City High-Middle School]].<ref name="BioLT">{{cite web |url=http://www.lifetimetv.co.uk/people/gillian-anderson |title=Biography: Gillian Anderson |work=[[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] |access-date=April 6, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406201521/http://www.lifetimetv.co.uk/people/gillian-anderson |archive-date=April 6, 2017}}</ref> She later said of her time there, "We were in a small [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] town. There were only six punks there. We were weird. It's not like London."<ref name="Guardian15" />

Anderson is the eldest of three siblings. Her brother Aaron, who was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, died in 2011 of a brain tumor at the age of 30. He was a DJ, mentor, and practicing [[Buddhist]], and was in his second year of a PhD program in [[developmental psychology]] at [[Stanford University]] when he was diagnosed with [[glioblastoma]] in 2008.<ref name="NW98">{{cite web|url= http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/98/98newweekly.shtml|title=Gillian's Plea: "Save my sick brother"|date=March 9, 1998|first=Larry|last=Kaplan|work=New Weekly|access-date=November 9, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/grandrapids/obituary.aspx?pid=153833165|title=Aaron Anderson obituary|publisher=Obits.mlive.com|date=November 5, 2011|access-date=June 8, 2013}}</ref> Her sister Zoe is a [[ceramic art|ceramicist]], whom she has called "an exceptional artist".<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cNPsTJNac| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310171426/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cNPsTJNac| archive-date=2016-03-10 | url-status=dead|title=Shindig – Gillian Anderson Interactive Q&A|via=YouTube|publisher=[[Shindig (video chat platform)|Shindig]]|date=March 11, 2015|access-date=November 9, 2015}}</ref> Anderson went through a rebellious stage as a teenager in Grand Rapids, taking drugs, dating a much older boyfriend, and cultivating a [[Punk subculture|punk]] appearance (dying her hair various colors, shaving the sides of her head, sporting a nose piercing and an all-black wardrobe).<ref name="NPR">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/12/07/249240231/gillian-anderson-on-the-fall-and-getting-arrested-in-high-school|title=Gillian Anderson On 'The Fall' And Getting Arrested in High School|date=December 7, 2013|publisher=[[NPR]]|access-date=September 21, 2015}}</ref><ref name="BioLT"/><ref name="Out2012">{{Cite news|last=Hicklin|first=Aaron|title=The Double Life of Gillian Anderson|url=http://www.out.com/entertainment/television/2012/03/13/gillian-anderson-lesbian-love-xfiles-Miss-Havisham|access-date=September 21, 2015|work=Out|date=March 13, 2012}}</ref> She was put in therapy at the age of 14.<ref name=Guardian15>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/08/gillian-anderson-on-therapy-rebellion-and-being-weird|title=Gillian Anderson on therapy, rebellion and 'being weird'|last=Hattenstone|first=Simon|access-date=August 23, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=February 8, 2015}}</ref> She listened to bands like [[Dead Kennedys]] and [[Skinny Puppy]]. She was voted by her classmates as "class clown", "most bizarre girl", and "most likely to be arrested". She was indeed arrested on graduation night for breaking into her high school in an attempt to glue the locks of the doors shut.<ref name="Newsweek">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/27/x-files-behind-her-gillian-anderson-believer-306820.html|title='X-Files' Behind Her, Gillian Anderson Is a Believer|last=Mejia|first=Paula|access-date=August 23, 2015|work=[[Newsweek]]|date=May 14, 2015}}</ref> She later managed to reduce the charges from [[breaking and entering]] to [[trespassing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/96_97/9710us.shtml|title=US Magazine – 1997 Interview|last=Rochlin|first=Margy|access-date=August 26, 2015|work=[[US Magazine]]|date=October 1, 1997}}</ref>

Anderson was interested in [[marine biology]] at an early age, but later became more interested in theatre and began acting in high school productions during her first year and later in [[community theatre]].<ref name="BioLT"/> She also served as a student intern at the [[Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts]].<ref name="Independent10">{{Cite news|last=Mottram|first=James|title=X-Files to YBAs: Gillian Anderson takes on the art world|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/xfiles-to-ybas-gillian-anderson-takes-on-the-art-world-1938231.html|access-date=October 30, 2015|newspaper=The Independent|date=April 10, 2010}}</ref> After graduating from high school in 1986, she returned to her birthplace of Chicago to attend [[The Theatre School at DePaul University]], where she earned a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theatre.depaul.edu/ALUMNI/Pages/default.aspx|title=The Theatre School at DePaul University – Alumni|publisher=theatre.depaul.edu|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> She also participated in the [[American National Theater and Academy]]'s summer program at [[Cornell University]].<ref name="BioLT"/> To support herself financially during her student years, she worked at the [[Goose Island Brewery]] in Chicago. After she became famous, the brewery named one of their [[Saison|Belgian-style farmhouse ales]] "Gillian".<ref name="IndieW15"/>