Gillian Anderson was born in Chicago in a modest family formed by Edward and Rosemary Anderson with English ancestors, Irish and German 4 . In two years, Gillian and her family moved to Puerto Rico for a little over a year, then in England , in London 5 , where his father launched into the world of film production . Gillian gets high marks at the private school of Coleridge, where she developed a taste for biology and for paranormal 6 . She is a very extrovert student. She considers herself to have had a normal childhood, and considers herself to be a missed boy at that time.

Back to America and Rebellious Adolescence [ edit | Change the code ]
This return to America is for Gillian a total change of scene. She attended school in Grand Rapids. Extraverted in England, it is self-contained in its first year of study because London lacks 8 . On top of that, she is mocked by his classmates because of his English accent 9 . At 12, she returns during the summer holidays in London, where she discovers the world of punks. She returns to America with a ring in her nose. She now wears shaved head and crest black and violet Iroquois with leather jacket, punk mini skirt and black clothes 10 . Gillian rebels and becomes provocative 11 . When she returns to high school, her grades go down, she is often called to the principal.