This is the Reason Gillian Anderson Speaks With Both an English and an American Accent

Though many of us were first introduced to Gillian Anderson as the American FBI special agent Dana Scully in The X Files, more recently the actress has made a name for herself as a go-to girl for BBC period dramas. From Bleak House to Great Expectations and, most recently, War and Peace, she has no trouble with the cut glass accent that's required to play a succession of aristocratic matriarchs. So what's the story? Is she just an American who's very good at accents, or is Gillian Anderson act...

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